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SmallCapLab.com
@Small_Cap_Lab
Small-cap analytics, regime scoring, dilution research, borrow rate portal, and systematic short-side strategies.
Chicago, IL Inscrit le Mayıs 2026
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@burton91cz I totally agree. I think 1 month of collection while accounts get created and settled will give a more accurate perspective.
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@Small_Cap_Lab Many brokers like Cobra and Schwab are going to cancel PDT from monday next week so I do not think its accurate to count it from yesterday. Its not prepared yet for some reason
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Yesterdays PDT removal... Premarket volume, dollar volume, and intraday runners were all up vs historical averages. Locates were cheap. Price action was pretty standard, though twitter will tell you it was crazy...
Checking back in one week with the data, and will add total trade count.
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@VisionQuants Be careful who you say that to, they will ostracize you.
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@Small_Cap_Lab Locates the last 2/3 days have been the lowest I’ve seen in over 3 weeks, let’s hope it continues
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@snipertrader21 Praise. There will be something new next month.
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Cheap borrows on everything today…
But but but I read on Twitter that it was gonna be the end of shorting due to the PDT rule and some random nasdaq rule?!
This is why Twitter is for entertainment purposes only and should be treated as such.
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@quantmindset @SmallCapSmarts Quants getting tilted? We are so back!
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@SmallCapSmarts i won 1 day this month so far. and all have been red. One big loss was cause i lost internet mid trade and unfortunately cause that was a squeezer and today was a tilted max loss
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@indiecatta @SmallCapSmarts We are joking. $FOXX / $STI are normal losses.
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@Small_Cap_Lab @SmallCapSmarts Not true at all.
I’ve made a fortune following your strategy.
If you’re blowing up with your own setup, maybe the problem isn’t the setup.
FlashResearch recommends increasing size and applying martingale until profitability returns.
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Is PDT dead already?
Are we good to start buying everything and wait for noob short sellers to blow up en masse?
$STI
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@Small_Cap_Lab Estaría bien también poder ver dentro de la misma métrica cada uno por separado no solo la comparativa entre ambos, no sé si me explico
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"DoN't sHoRT SsR" is busted folklore... But why on earth would I share this?!
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@Small_Cap_Lab mechanically it's a pain because you can only short it against you. depending on how you fill
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Average locate cost today was 0.50% of share price, but HTB Twitter will fearmonger that the game is over because borrow is "too expensive." Silly rabbits.
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@SmallCapSmarts I've never noticed a correlation between borrow availability/cost and fade or squeeze, if so, that's an easy long when its not. My average locate cost this week has been like 1.5%
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“No locates” used to mean no shorts to squeeze = easy fade.
Now it often means the fast bots/traders already grabbed all borrows, got trapped, and there’s nobody left to pressure the stock.
For a low-float runner “no locates” is:
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Enjoy the pump while it lasts. see you $XOS at $4 or lower by EoD
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@Small_Cap_Lab Imagine shorting those 84% and once in a while one of those 16% spike by 1000% in seconds… isn’t that interesting? 😄👍
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Premarket high timing... Basketing all premarket stocks with volume and a 30%+ high:
- 52% put in their high by 8am.
- 84% by 9am
- and the average time from the start of the move to premarket high is 63 minutes...
Pretty interesting stuff...
$GPUS, $GXAI, $BJDX, $LOBO, $QUCY, $SBFM, $LASE, $VSA, $ZJYL, $STAK ...
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@jimmysharmaLAD @SmallCapSmarts @Small_Cap_Lab Data is gay. You will learn eventually. Only way to make money in small cap is keep risking bigger and bigger and hope no blow up
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@hackertrader @indiecatta Niv, do you really not understand that you should avoid locating when costs exceed expectancy?
If your gross edge is 12% and fee drag is 4% (high), your net edge is 8%. Anyone that doesn’t understand this shouldn’t be trading.
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@Small_Cap_Lab @indiecatta Do u really not see how locates made the edge untradable after your six years?
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People only get worried about data when it starts confirming something they'd rather keep to themselves... Maybe the HTB mob will be showing up at my door next.
Apathetic Trader@ApatheticTrader
"Hi guys! I ran some risk analysis and it is far less risky for me to sell you my services and "interesting" data than it is for me to risk any real and meaningful capital by actually trading. So, I'll share "interesting" things with you to bait you to my site where you can subscribe to my monthly insight!" Avoid these sorts of people like the plague. They are parasites to any system who grift from the seats in the audience and don't have the balls to take up the sword in the arena. I'd never knock all people who sell services. There are real ones who put their money where their mouth is, while also making some money from an adjacent service biz. No problem with them, but vast majority are grifters looking for the safer and more durable revenue of monthly sub dollars.
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As disclosed, if locate costs are equal to or exceed edge %, avoid. That has always been a hard constraint. Yes, I have concerns about the recent increase in locate pricing, but I don’t believe it’s permanent, and it doesn’t change that rule. These are high-frequency strategies to bring with. An execute less environment.
As long as the presence of structurally weak small caps exists, these setups will exist. If I revise the strategy(s) at all to account for future changes, buyers will be transparently updated.
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@Small_Cap_Lab Six years of ‘trading’ this edge, and no real concern about locates, HTB deterioration or recent squeezes, and the final product is a $300 lifetime access strategy pack 🤔 Maybe you’re Jesus 🧔🏻♀️ and came to save us all ?
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