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Feb 05 2021

A Sign It Could Get “Even Sillier”

  • Feb 5, 2021

The January moves in heavily shorted Micro Caps were more bizarre than anything we saw during the wildest days of the Tech bubble. Despite these signs of rampant stock speculation by the retail crowd, we still wouldn’t characterize today’s sentiment backdrop as frenzied as the peak levels of 1999-2000.

Feb 05 2021

Silly Season

  • Feb 5, 2021

Move over, Y2K! In late January, the squeeze of popular hedge fund “shorts” eclipsed anything we saw at the peak of the Technology bubble. But who knows? An even wilder event might be in store in coming months.