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Our International Hall of Famers list is composed of the 100 largest US-listed international stocks, or ADRs.

We've also sprinkled in some of the largest ADRs from countries that did not make the market cap cut. 

These stocks range from some well-known mega-cap multinationals such as Toyota Motor and Royal Dutch Shell to some large-cap global disruptors such as Sea Ltd and Shopify.

It's got all the big names and more–but only those that are based outside the US. You can find all the largest US stocks on our original Hall of Famers list.

The beauty of these scans is really in their simplicity.

We take the largest names each week and then apply technical filters in a way that the strongest stocks with the most momentum rise to the top.

Based on the market environment, we can also flip the scan on its head and filter for weakness.

Let's dive in and take a look at some of the most important stocks from...

This is the video recording of our September 2024 Mid-Month Strategy Session

From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

Welcome to The Junior International Hall of Famers.

With the goal of finding more bullish setups, we have decided to expand one of our favorite scans and broaden our regular coverage of the largest US-listed international stocks, or ADRs.

This scan is composed of the next 100 largest stocks by market cap, those that come after the top 100 and are thus covered by the International Hall of Famers universe.

Many of these names will someday graduate and join our original International Hall Of Famers list. The idea here is to catch these big trends as early on as possible.

Let’s dive right in and check out what these future big boys are up to.

This is our Junior International Hall of Famers list:

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And here’s how we arrived at it…

We removed laggards which are down 5% or more relative to the ACWI Ex. U.S. Index $ACWX over the trailing month.

Then we sorted...

Below is the replay and slide deck for Week 1 of ASC Mastermind.

From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

Welcome to The 2 to 100 Club.

In this scan, we look to identify the strongest growth stocks as they climb the market-cap ladder from small- to mid- to large- and, ultimately, to mega-cap status (over $200B).

Once they graduate from small-cap to mid-cap status (over $2B), they come on our radar. Likewise, when they surpass the roughly $30B mark, they roll off our list.

But the scan doesn't just end there.

We only want to look at the strongest growth industries in the market, as that is typically where these potential 50-baggers come from.

Some of the best performers in recent decades – stocks like Priceline, Amazon, Netflix, Salesforce, and myriad others – would have been on this list at some point during their journey to becoming the market behemoths they are today.

When you look at the stocks in our table, you'll notice we're only focused on Technology and Growth industry groups such as Software, Semiconductors, Online...

Here is the schedule for the ASC Mastermind course: 

Week 1 (Sept. 25): Defining Personal Objectives For Trading & Investing

Week 2 (Oct. 2): Why Momentum Trading Works

Week 3 (Oct. 9): How To Do Intermarket Analysis

Week 4 (Oct. 16): Using Relative Strength

Week 5 (Oct. 30): Sentiment & Seasonality

Week 6 (Nov. 6): Pattern Recognition

Week 7 (Nov. 13): Incorporating Moving Averages Into Your Analysis

Week 8 (Nov. 20): How To Really Make Money With Dividend Stocks

Week 9 (Nov. 27): Finding The Best Small-Cap Stocks

Week 10 (Dec. 4): Profiting Off Of Short Squeezes

Week 11 (Dec. 11): When Is It Too Late To Buy Mega-Caps?

Week 12 (Dec. 18): How To Find The Next $100 Billion Company

The dollar is weaker than you think. 

This is a major development in the forex market. And when we look under the hood, things are even worse than they appear for the greenback.

With more and more global currencies showing relative strength each day, it’s time to take a look at US dollar internals and see what’s moving. 

Relative strength is not just the cheat code for stocks, it also works for the currency market and everything else in between. 

We also learn a lot about the breadth of a given market through analyzing internals. This helps us determine how we want to position ourselves to make money. 

And right now, it looks like we should position ourselves for a lower dollar over longer time frames. 

The following table shows the US dollar is in, or moving toward, a bearish trend regime against most other major currencies.

As you can see, over 60% of currencies are in uptrends against the dollar… and this is now true on every timeframe we analyze. 

This is...

They can't even sell the Chinese stocks!

Chinese stocks!

The worst stocks on the planet. Yes those. They're even buying those.

That's what happens in bull markets. 

The CSI 300 is up over 4% overnight. This is the Chinese equivalent to the S&P500, which is now bouncing off support from Q1 and potentially putting in a historic double bottom:

Think about what this could mean to global markets, if even the worst stocks can't go down.

I mean, just look at the returns in China compared to the United States over the past 4 years, taking it back to before the prior cycle's peak.

Using this timeframe, you can really see the lack of recovery in China.

And I'm not just cherry picking the CSI 300 here.

It's just that this index is a good representation of the Chinese Market.

But if you want to compare that to the more popular China ETFs, you'll see the same thing, or worse.

While the CSI300 and China Large-cap 25 Index $FXI are only down 26% for this period, the China Technology ETF $CQQQ is down double that. So is Chinese Internet ETF $KWEB.

I...

Gold futures have been relentlessly rising and printing new all-time highs. The precious metal is now overbought on a 14-day, week, and month RSI. 

We've recently seen Palladium rip over 20% in a few days and momentum thrusts for the Junior Gold & Silver Miners ETFs.

With this new Gold bull market now almost 7 months old, maybe it's time for Silver futures to break out of their multi-year range.

Let's talk about it:

From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

Welcome to The Minor Leaguers.

We've had some great trades come out of this small-cap-focused column since we launched it back in 2020 and started rotating it with our flagship bottom-up scan, Under the Hood.

For the first year or so, we focused only on Russell 2000 stocks with a market cap between $1 and $2B.

That was fun, but we wanted to branch out a bit and allow some new stocks to find their way onto our list.

We expanded our universe to include some mid-caps.

Nowadays, to make the cut for our Minor Leaguers list, a company must have a market cap between $1 and $4B.

And it doesn't have to be a Russell component — it can be any US-listed equity. With participation expanding around the globe, we want all those ADRs in our universe.

The same price and liquidity filters are applied. Then, as always, we sort by proximity to new highs in order to focus...

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The world's important stock market index just made new all-time highs, again.

We don't know what the market is going to do next. No one does.

But here's what we do know.

Going back and looking at all the data since the beginning of time, we know FOR A FACT, that there is nothing more bullish for a stock than the price going up.

We know.

We have the data.

So do you!

But have you gone back and actually taken the time to count?

The most bullish thing a stock can do is go up in price.

Here is the Dow making new all-time highs (in price), after breaking out earlier this year from a multi-year bear market.

People keep looking for bear markets that aren't there.

We just had a bear market a couple of years ago.

And we had another one a couple of years before that.

If we're going into a new bear market, you're going to need stocks to go down in price first, or at the very least they need to stop going up.

We know mathematically that you CANNOT have a bear market, or a correction of any kind without the prices of stocks falling. (See: ...