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Position Trader, Market Leaders, Fundamental/Technical Analysis
Small caps should lead in the coming days, and high short interest in many names could fuel a short squeeze as shorts are forced to buy back. Names include Amprius, Lemonade, LightPath, Navitas, Ichor, Cohu, ACM Research, Aeva, Ouster, Ondas, BlackSky, Critical Metals, United States Antimony, Lightwave Logic, Arteris, Sidus Space, Satellogic and Babcock & Wilcox. x.com x.comÂ
Falling rates and buying in financials, consumer discretionary and Home Depot make US small caps a very good buy here with high probability. The drawdown exceeds 11%, as it did at the start of the Iran war, and daily RSI and MACD are at similar bottoms. x.comÂ
US small caps are set to outperform as capital rotates down the cap structure, as it does when a bull market broadens. After years of lagging megacaps, small caps historically run hardest in the back half of a bull, once megacap leaders are extended. Breadth is widening, with over 30% of S&P 500 members beating the index in 2025, the best since 2021. The Fed is easing into strength, and rate cuts that lower discount rates and cheapen financing especially help small caps and long-duration growth. … Show more
A suspected crash and liquidity squeeze make small-cap longs unattractive initially. x.comÂ
US small caps are in a 2021-style mania worth riding up hard, but a downturn will come. Revenue and cash generation have become irrelevant, IPOs are overvalued, pump-and-dumps are everywhere, everyone crowds the same themes and a few companies hold the market up; a wave of SPACs would mark the top. The second half should be volatile. In a large correction, high-beta names will drop regardless of sector, and cash-generative companies with real moats and growth will be safer. x.com x.comÂ
US small caps are now one of the strongest indexes, trending up almost steadily since April's low with shallower pullbacks than the Nasdaq, and the rotation into small-cap value is not over. The trend stays bullish while the index holds its 21-day EMA and the 296 gap, with gamma-structure targets at 305 and then 310-315. x.comÂ
US small caps are a losing game against investor psychology. They demand time spent understanding concepts no one cares about, only to end in 5% positions sold too early, and net worth stagnates despite good-looking screenshots. Large positions in cheap blue chips are a much better and easier game. x.comÂ
Small caps have the best chart of the three major US indexes, and money is flowing into the financials and biotech names the Russell 2000 is full of. The position was started on the post-FOMC flush and will be managed against the 9-day EMA, with the risk of exiting if Fed chair Warsh's press conference goes the wrong way. x.comÂ
Avis Budget's short squeeze, the largest of 2026, is over. x.comÂ
Small caps, housing stocks and unprofitable tech that ran on rate-cut hopes face a sharp repricing, as odds of a rate hike at the Fed's July 29 meeting tripled in a week. Oil surged near $100 after Houthi attacks on Saudi tankers, new global tariffs lifted inflation expectations and the 10-year yield hit 4.71%. A Wells Fargo strategist said the Fed may need to hike more and faster than expected. With consumers already fragile, a hike would reprice small caps overnight. x.comÂ
US small caps are finally breaking out of their long pullback as the market recognizes that yields have likely topped, with inflation and Fed worries easing. x.comÂ
