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@SmallCapSmarts Just speaking from experience. These days are always muted in terms of quality opportunity. Unless of course you like trading the same 20 cent range for 6 hours.

@JDTrader77 So big money rotates into $ 9M microcaps on FOMC days?

$XTLB very weird price action. Huge volume, clearouts both ways. Feels like full PvP liquidity hunting.

Any explanation on the complete collapse of small cap liquidity over the past 5 trading days would be welcome

@Mightyscalper Feels like the 2025 market has returned in the past week. So difficult for anything to sustain a bid, especially after the open

Small Cap Watchlist: Can't help to think $AGPU is done, best trades came and went

@TradetheMatrix1 So these are risk-on conditions because one stock squeezes while all the other small caps struggle to maintain any strength on the bid after the opening bell

In strong risk-on market they always ignite one of those macro short squeezes and make sure everyone on short side jumps at them too early $CAR. Once you know the pattern via cycle its not difficult to identify.

Small cap shorts rejoice, the 2025 algo is back Most “strength” occurs in PM, primarily from 4-7am Intraday highs are set by 10:15am Bids evaporate into just about every uptick No midday moves occur with enough volume to be sustained

@TradetheMatrix1 And yet everything is going sideways with EFOI being the only name to have sustained any volume

Something should be flying today in #smallcaps on this kind of risk-on flows (strongest of any day in the year).

It’s amazing how quickly things shift. Last week even the most rigged tickers didn’t so violently shake out every long it could before the move occurred. Whereas this week the squeezes have been powerful, but it’s been so difficult to time the moves within taking 100 paper cuts

As difficult an environment this is to short small caps, you can’t go long with a tight stop either. More times than not, the bids get instantly flushed if you buy the Ask looking for a push. And buys never seem to get filled on the bid unless you’re about to get dunked on.

$MASK totally normal organic price action

UGRO going from $6 to $56 was last Tuesday. While today I haven’t found a single name that can uptick and not instantly drop the bid. Strong cycles used to last for weeks to months, not only a few hours.

Well whatever buying pressure that was present in small caps last week doesn’t look like it’s made it into this week. Absolutely horrendous price action all around.

@TheoryTrading Has been the case for the past year. Momentum gets turned on and off like a light switch, making it that much harder to capitalize for the few hours it’s present and creates expectations for the following days that go unfulfilled. It is just reality at this point

Expectations: “after the $UGRO black swan, small caps will be so hot - we will have 5 x 200% gappers and will make back $UGRO loss easily with all of the insane opps and organic longs chasing, bro” Reality: Back to the short infested PA and daily slop on scanners $FCHL $EEIQ $LNAI

@TradetheMatrix1 It just needs to test that $8.40 level another 263 times and then it’ll be off

$ANNA potential for 1000% move just matter of time

@TheoryTrading And then returning back below a dollar inside the same minute lol

@PredMTrader Really helpful post. It’s great to get at look into your thought process.

White House Press Briefing & Trump Roundtable Today Here’s how I’m thinking about these events - Will Karo talk about anything other than Iran? Ecuador strikes and Supreme Court tariff ruling two possible other topics to be covered. - Will Karo bring a guest to speak on Iran that could eat into her speaking time? - Will Trump manage to stay on topic? Or will a Q&A descend into countless off topic questions on Iran? - Given Trump’s event is a roundtable with multiple speakers, there’s a reasonable chance YES shares might decay live too much as the event drags on and AI execs spend time talking. Iran related strikes theoretically shouldn’t decay until Q&A since they’re very unlikely to naturally come up during a roundtable on AI & Energy. - Anthropic is probably the most interesting strike to me since if the roundtable is opened to Q&A it’s a question I’d consider on topic to be brought up. Especially considering OpenAI execs will be in attendance. May make sense if it’s cheap enough. I’ll be on a flight during both these events traveling for my bachelor party this weekend but wanted to share how I’d think about these events in terms of finding an edge. Let me know if you like this style of content and will do this more!

@madaznfootballr It is modern day SC price action. The bulk of momentum/range has taken place outside of regular market hours since last spring. The agenda is to paint a chart in PM/AH that looks strong in effort to attract attention and extract as much intraday liquidity as possible.

$BATL grindy pinned price action for almost an hour. What is this crap? 😑😑#tradeideas #stocks #stockmarket trade-ideas.com/share.php?code…

@radarmentions Do you find getting positioned in the days/hours ahead of the event or waiting until it’s live provides better entries?

+$3700 - my biggest individual market win (aside from Bernie). Proud of this win because it's the most I sized up on a market (aside from SOTU and superbowl, but those were across 20+ strikes. Just released the new historical tools on mentions terminal that helped with the win - but also having watched way too many Mamdani speeches. If I only play Mamdan and Bernie moving forward, does that make me a democratic socialist?

@rigatohni Did he say any of these? Seems like he barely said any of the available strikes

🚨: What will Mamdani say during his Black History Month Reception? here are my positions. as long as no rug, i think we do pretty well. getting some cheap value here.

@Mightyscalper You can battle the algos and find momentum maybe 1 out of every 10 days. More often than not it’s like trying to get water from a rock. Small caps are going the way of the OTC market.

Small Cap Watchlist: Small caps are so dead, kinda crazy