According to @stocktalkweekly, reported returns are +260% for 2024, +505% for 2025, and +31.81% year-to-date for the first 12 days of 2026, disclosed via a public tweet on January 12, 2026. Source: @stocktalkweekly, Jan 12, 2026. According to @stocktalkweekly, the post positions the group as a SMID cap research community but provides no methodology, benchmark, or risk metrics alongside the performance figures. Source: @stocktalkweekly, Jan 12, 2026. According to @stocktalkweekly, the only immediately tradable insight is the stated performance timeline and SMID focus; no tickers, sector weights, or trade logs are included in the source post. Source: @stocktalkweekly, Jan 12, 2026. According to @stocktalkweekly, there is no mention of crypto or digital asset linkages, so no verified read-through to BTC, ETH, or altcoin markets can be drawn from the source alone. Source: @stocktalkweekly, Jan 12, 2026.

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