There were a few companies that I was waiting for to go public that ended up going the SPAC route around the time I didn't have extra capital to deploy at the t

There were a few companies that I was waiting for to go public that ended up going the SPAC route around the time I didn't have extra capital to deploy at the time they went public. Now, I'm just glad I didn't. While I still intend to invest once the knife that is their valuations stops falling and starts to rebound on fundamentals, for now they still have a bit more to lose in their valuation to be in line with the rest of the market on your standard metrics eg. P/E. I'm just not gutsy enough to short the stocks until then. One thing I am now on the look out for is for short-term short squeezes before initial lockup periods expire.