Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller revealed an enormous bullish place in small-cap shares final quarter, in accordance with a brand new regulatory submitting. The distinguished investor, who now runs the Duquesne Household Workplace, purchased name choices on 3,157,900 iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM) shares value $664 million. That was Druckenmiller’s greatest wager on the finish of March. A name possibility provides an investor the proper to buy an asset at a specified value or strike value inside a sure time period. Traders revenue from name choices when the worth of the underlying safety rises. As of the tip of March, Druckenmiller owned 31,579 name possibility contracts with unknown worth, strike value or expiration date, paperwork present. Small-cap shares have underperformed large-cap shares this 12 months as low-cost worth shares lag progress shares. IWM is about to realize practically 4% in 2024, in contrast with the S&P 500’s 11% achieve. Druckenmiller might be betting that market management may shift to smaller shares because the rally widens. Fund managers with greater than $100 million in belongings should disclose their lengthy positions to the SEC 45 days after the tip of the quarter. Theoretically, Druckenmiller may have modified his stance by the point the paperwork have been launched. The well-known investor additionally cashed in on his massive wager on Nvidia final quarter by slashing greater than 70% of his stake. Druckenmiller lately instructed CNBC that whereas he stays bullish on the substitute intelligence increase, he thinks the chipmaker’s sharp rally has given him pause. The truth is, the inventory is up 90% in 2024. It is grow to be one thing that is now acknowledged by the market,” Druckenmiller stated final week on CNBC’s “Squawk Field.” Druckenmiller stated he diminished his wager after “the inventory value went from $150 to $900.” “I am not Warren Buffett – I have not owned something in 10 or 20 years. I want I used to be Warren Buffett,” he added. Along with these modifications, Druckenmiller additionally added a big stake in semiconductor identify Coherent, making it his eighth-largest holding. Druckenmiller as soon as managed George Soros’s Quantum Fund and rose to fame after collaborating in a $10 billion wager in opposition to the pound in 1992. , and closed his firm in 2010.