There have been endless articles around talking about how best to screen and analyze for a wonderful company and/or a company that’s trading below its intrinsic value that’s worth buying. From the very best like Buffett to the average retail investor – there have been many times we have invested in things that we thought were good but ended up disappointing us and, perhaps, losing us money. Worse, many retail investors who think they know enough or are overconfident in their limited ability to thoroughly analyze something tend to buy horrible stocks that look good at first glance. So instead of giving you signs, metrics or indicators that lead you to hunt for good companies, here’re some that will hopefully allow you to avoid the bad companies. This is by no means an article about short-selling horrible companies, as short-selling in itself is an entirely different skillset of investing and ......