#bstockscis
I went looking for Microsoft in the bStocks list this morning. It isn't there. Neither is Meta 🤔
That surprised me more than anything else I've found in this product. Those two are usually the first names on any list of big US tech.
What is there is stranger, and more interesting.
$SPCXB , which only listed on Nasdaq in June. ASML. Netflix. Super Micro Computer. Astera Labs. An iShares South Korea ETF. Sandisk. Micron.
The launch on 11 June had five names: NVDAB, TSLAB, CRCLB, MUB, SNDKB. Ten more arrived on 29 July, another ten on 5 August.
I'd assumed a list like this fills from the top down. Biggest company first, then work your way down. That's clearly not what happened here.
I don't know the selection criteria. But looking at what actually made it in, a pattern is hard to miss.
This isn't a mirror of the S&P, and I don't think it's trying to be. It reads like a list built around access — names that were genuinely hard to reach from where I live, rather than the ones that top every index by default. SpaceX was out of reach for almost anyone outside institutional channels a few months ago. $ASMLB is a European name that US-focused retail products usually skip.
Which has changed how I read the announcements. I used to scan them for names I recognise. Now I look first at the ones I don't, 'cause those are the ones I had no other way of reaching. That's the part I actually value.
Sources: Binance bStocks launch announcement 12 June 2026; listing announcements 29 July and 5 August 2026.
@BinanceCIS Which name in the list did you not expect to find there?
#bStocksCIS
I went looking for Microsoft in the bStocks list this morning. It isn't there. Neither is Meta 🤔
That surprised me more than anything else I've found in this product. Those two are usually the first names on any list of big US tech.
What is there is stranger, and more interesting.
$SPCXB , which only listed on Nasdaq in June. ASML. Netflix. Super Micro Computer. Astera Labs. An iShares South Korea ETF. Sandisk. Micron.
The launch on 11 June had five names: NVDAB, TSLAB, CRCLB, MUB, SNDKB. Ten more arrived on 29 July, another ten on 5 August.
I'd assumed a list like this fills from the top down. Biggest company first, then work your way down. That's clearly not what happened here.
I don't know the selection criteria. But looking at what actually made it in, a pattern is hard to miss.
This isn't a mirror of the S&P, and I don't think it's trying to be. It reads like a list built around access — names that were genuinely hard to reach from where I live, rather than the ones that top every index by default. SpaceX was out of reach for almost anyone outside institutional channels a few months ago. $ASMLB is a European name that US-focused retail products usually skip.
Which has changed how I read the announcements. I used to scan them for names I recognise. Now I look first at the ones I don't, 'cause those are the ones I had no other way of reaching. That's the part I actually value.
Sources: Binance bStocks launch announcement 12 June 2026; listing announcements 29 July and 5 August 2026.
@BinanceCIS Which name in the list did you not expect to find there?
#bStocksCIS