Before I get into a reflection on the book Damsel In Distressed: My Life In the Golden Age of Hedge Funds, by Dominique Mielle, I’d like to point you to a few tweets I recently posted that I’ll parlay into the theme of today’s topic – capitalizing on market inefficiencies and how Mielle’s history of being an early investor in distressed asset classes rhymes perfectly with the edge that microcaps provides.

On December 16, I quickly commented on the aversion that people have towards microcaps, which is quite astonishing to me given that the quality gets swept into the melee of bad karma brought upon by the junk that gave the space a bad name in the first place: