I was
doing microcap value 1993 - 1998, with some significant success, but one day I slipped, and entered a market order for 1x the daily volume of a stock.
Not exact matches
You'll notice that all of these VCs
do early - stage investments and some are among the horde of new
microcap firms that have launched or started a new fund in the past year.
I
did that once on a
microcap stock (the stock of a very small company), and ended up doubling the price of the stock as my order was fully filled, only to see the price fall right back to where it was.
Uncovering Alpha in
Microcaps & Special Situations: Peter Rabover, Artko Capital (Harvest) Why don't terrible free throw shooters like Shaq, Wilt Chamberlain, DeAndre Jordan shoot underhand like Hall of Famer Rick Barry?
Also, I usually don't discuss
microcaps that we own, but I'm willing to discuss any company that readers bring up, and my firm's 13F is a matter of record.
If they
do a good job, their
microcap stocks soon become small caps, their small caps become midcaps, and both are at risk of being ejected from the capitalization - limited Grandeur Peak funds.
Whether this underperformance is an anomaly or due to the difficulty indexing
microcaps I don't know.
Be careful choosing a
microcap fund if you choose to
do so, as many funds have very little assets under management, trade very infrequently and are expensive.
Microcap Value — in which both Roy and I have personal investments —
did almost as well, both during the years in which he served as mentor to the fund's managers and afterward.
These
microcap coins lack bitcoin's luster, but they
do have two things in their favor: there's a lot of them and they're» cheap».