According to @stocktalkweekly, the account invited pitches for SMID cap stocks between $200 million and $10 billion market cap and will respond to thoughtful replies, creating a potential attention catalyst for small- and mid-cap tickers. source: Twitter post by Stock Talk https://twitter.com/stocktalkweekly/status/1973535888501318011 Empirical research shows social-media-driven retail attention can produce short-term surges in trading volume and returns in smaller equities, a setup traders monitor for momentum and liquidity events. source: Barber and Odean 2008 All That Glitters https://academic.oup.com/rfs/article-abstract/21/2/785/1582901; Cookson, Engelberg, and Mullins 2020 Social Media and Investor Attention https://www.nber.org/papers/w27527 Search and tweet-based attention proxies have been found to predict near-term volatility and reversals, informing entry and exit timing for event-driven trades. source: Da, Engelberg, and Gao 2011 In Search of Attention https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=971354; Sprenger, Tumasjan, Sandner, and Welpe 2014 Tweets and Trades https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eufm.12011 Given the post-2020 rise in equity–crypto comovement, risk-on attention spilling into SMID caps can coincide with higher-beta moves in BTC and ETH, so cross-asset desks track these attention shocks. source: IMF 2022 Crypto Prices Move More in Tandem With Stocks https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2022/01/11/crypto-prices-move-more-in-tandem-with-stocks-posing-new-risks; BIS 2022 Crypto shocks and spillovers to traditional markets https://www.bis.org/publ/bisbull53.htm