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BULLISH STABLE RUT

The small-cap rally is fundamentally sound and sustainable, not a short-squeeze driven junk rally, as evidenced by non-heavily-shorted stocks outperforming heavily-shorted ones

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FIRST SEENJul 17, 2026
LAST SEENAug 13, 2026
TRAJECTORY Quiet

Too little corroboration in the last 3 days to call a trend (3 articles). Watching for it to gain traction.

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"BYD shares are down ~35% YTD, which we think is overdone considering the quality of ongoing improvement. We expect shares to react positively today."

The Globe and Mail unknown Source article

"Verastem carries short interest near 21% of its float, so with the oncology group catching a bid, the setup was primed for a squeeze... ADC Therapeutics... With the shares crushed to about a dollar... a deeply oversold bounce met revived M&A speculation across the space."

Benzinga mainstream_finance Source article

"not-so-heavily shorted small-cap stocks are outperforming heavily shorted ones, which is a signpost of a sustainable rally. 'If this was a snapback junk rally where it was a short squeeze, it would be the inverse,' he said."

CNBC mainstream_finance Source article