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Biohazard (by LZ)

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XBI is a small/mid cap fund with a relative equal-weighting of biotech stocks. IBB is a market-cap weighted fund skewed towards the large-caps. Simple thesis: if investors are bullish they should like biotech, all else equal. If they’re nervous, they will not like small, cash burning companies that face existential risk in an extended bear market or recession.

In late June 2022, I noticed $XBI had been outperforming QQQ. It also bottomed in May and didn’t follow with a new low in June. I took that as a sign the market decline into June was probably running out of steam.

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