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The Small Cap Breakout

Addison WigginAddison Wiggin

September 19, 2025 • 1 minute, 12 second read


IWMSmall Caps

The Small Cap Breakout

The terrifying bull market broadened its base yesterday, driven by expectations of easy money.

Small caps tend to be more dependent on borrowing to finance operations than the cash-rich mega-cap players.

So it’s no surprise that as the Fed acquiesced to cutting interest rates Wednesday, small caps, as measured by the Russell 2000 Index (IWM) broke out of a four-year range:

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Small cap stocks broke through an existing trading range to new all time highs yesterday.  (Source: TrendSpider)

Adam O’Dell suggested during yesterday’s Grey Swan Live! that the iShares Russell 2000 ETF, IWM, might be the index to watch – it could outperform the S&P 500 for the rest of the calendar year.

~ Addison

P.S. Our paid-up Grey Swan Investment Fraternity members got a masterclass in Adam’s data-driven approach to small-cap investing. That includes how he identified gold mining stocks before they outperformed the Mag 7 AI stocks over the past year.

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How did we get here? Find out in these riveting reads: Demise of the Dollar, Financial Reckoning Day, and Empire of Debt — all three books are now available in their third post-pandemic editions. You might enjoy one or all three.


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