SmallCapInvestor.com now available on Yahoo! Finance
SmallCapInvestor.com, the leading small-cap investor website, has teamed up with Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide, to provide independent small cap news, research, and analysis to Yahoo! Finance, the #1 finance site on the web.
Investors in small cap and micro cap stocks can continue to get the same
research, news, and analysis directly through our web site at
http://www.smallcapinvestor.com/. You can also expect to see our content integrated into Yahoo! Finance in the news area of a ticker search. We hope that you'll continue to visit our site frequently and find the distribution of our content through Yahoo! Finance at http://biz.yahoo.com/smallcapinvestor/ to be helpful in your investing.
Since I founded SmallCapInvestor.com in April 2007, my dedicated team of writers, researchers, and reporters have been focused on independent coverage of small-cap stocks that are largely afterthoughts on Wall Street and in the mainstream financial media. I have long thought this a travesty, as small cap stocks and micro cap stocks offer investors their very best chances at realizing double- and even triple-digit gains.
Today, with the reach of Yahoo! Finance adding to our growing base of regular readers, perhaps it's not fair to call small cap stocks and micro cap stocks "afterthoughts."
The addition of SmallCapInvestor.com to Yahoo! Finance validates a trading dictum that I and other small cap investors have long held to be true: small cap stocks are an important leading indicator with respect to the mid cap and large cap markets.
Timely news and information on small cap stocks is beneficial to all investors looking for signs of a turn-around in the broad stock market. For a demonstration of this fact, we need only look to some recent stock market history.
In the early stages of the most recent bull market, stocks in the spring of 2003 suffered a scary pullback toward the major lows that occurred the previous October. The relative strength of the Russell 2000 compared with the Dow during this period was interpreted by astute technical analysts as a signal that the overall market was ready for recovery.
Indeed, in that five-year bull market run from the 2002 bottom to the 2007 peak small-cap stocks led the market, gaining 164%, compared with a 97% rise for the Dow--clearly small caps led the way up for that great charge, and they signaled the top far more accurately than the Dow.
The Russell 2000 index reached its peak for the 2002-2007 bull market in July 2007, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average did not begin its decline until October 2007, which proved to be a false signal of hope for a market that eventually plunged 25% by January 2008.
Small-cap stocks, like the rest of the market, are currently in a bear mode, trying valiantly to carve out a bottom while the economy teeters on recession. If the economy does tip into recession, then another 15% to 25% downward swing is possible in the Russell 2000 before any move back toward last summer's highs.
If the recent lows can hold up, then we could still see several months of sideways to higher grinding action as we slowly bring back new money into the market. It typically takes several months to as long as four years for the market to recover from the type of mini-crash that has taken place in recent months.
Regardless of the current market conditions my hard working editorial staff at SmallCapInvestor.com, led by Editor-in-Chief Bob Bogda, will continue to bring SmallCapInvestor.com visitors the very best in independent reporting on Russell 2000 small cap stocks. SmallCapInvestor.com researchers and writers will continue to produce original analysis and independent research focused on small- and micro-cap stocks. I recommend you visit us today at http://www.smallcapinvestor.com/.
Thank you for your continued support.
Ian Wyatt
Founder & Chief Investment Strategist
SmallCapInvestor.com
Investors in small cap and micro cap stocks can continue to get the same
research, news, and analysis directly through our web site at
http://www.smallcapinvestor.com/. You can also expect to see our content integrated into Yahoo! Finance in the news area of a ticker search. We hope that you'll continue to visit our site frequently and find the distribution of our content through Yahoo! Finance at http://biz.yahoo.com/smallcapinvestor/ to be helpful in your investing.
Since I founded SmallCapInvestor.com in April 2007, my dedicated team of writers, researchers, and reporters have been focused on independent coverage of small-cap stocks that are largely afterthoughts on Wall Street and in the mainstream financial media. I have long thought this a travesty, as small cap stocks and micro cap stocks offer investors their very best chances at realizing double- and even triple-digit gains.
Today, with the reach of Yahoo! Finance adding to our growing base of regular readers, perhaps it's not fair to call small cap stocks and micro cap stocks "afterthoughts."
The addition of SmallCapInvestor.com to Yahoo! Finance validates a trading dictum that I and other small cap investors have long held to be true: small cap stocks are an important leading indicator with respect to the mid cap and large cap markets.
Timely news and information on small cap stocks is beneficial to all investors looking for signs of a turn-around in the broad stock market. For a demonstration of this fact, we need only look to some recent stock market history.
In the early stages of the most recent bull market, stocks in the spring of 2003 suffered a scary pullback toward the major lows that occurred the previous October. The relative strength of the Russell 2000 compared with the Dow during this period was interpreted by astute technical analysts as a signal that the overall market was ready for recovery.
Indeed, in that five-year bull market run from the 2002 bottom to the 2007 peak small-cap stocks led the market, gaining 164%, compared with a 97% rise for the Dow--clearly small caps led the way up for that great charge, and they signaled the top far more accurately than the Dow.
The Russell 2000 index reached its peak for the 2002-2007 bull market in July 2007, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average did not begin its decline until October 2007, which proved to be a false signal of hope for a market that eventually plunged 25% by January 2008.
Small-cap stocks, like the rest of the market, are currently in a bear mode, trying valiantly to carve out a bottom while the economy teeters on recession. If the economy does tip into recession, then another 15% to 25% downward swing is possible in the Russell 2000 before any move back toward last summer's highs.
If the recent lows can hold up, then we could still see several months of sideways to higher grinding action as we slowly bring back new money into the market. It typically takes several months to as long as four years for the market to recover from the type of mini-crash that has taken place in recent months.
Regardless of the current market conditions my hard working editorial staff at SmallCapInvestor.com, led by Editor-in-Chief Bob Bogda, will continue to bring SmallCapInvestor.com visitors the very best in independent reporting on Russell 2000 small cap stocks. SmallCapInvestor.com researchers and writers will continue to produce original analysis and independent research focused on small- and micro-cap stocks. I recommend you visit us today at http://www.smallcapinvestor.com/.
Thank you for your continued support.
Ian Wyatt
Founder & Chief Investment Strategist
SmallCapInvestor.com
About the Author
Ian Wyatt is a co-founder and President of Business Financial Publishing and the Chief Investment Strategist and Publisher of SmallCapInvestor.com.