From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff
Futures are up nicely this morning, and $SPY is above 415.
We need to hold this level to head up to 421.
Expert technical analysis of financial markets by JC Parets
by David
From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff
Futures are up nicely this morning, and $SPY is above 415.
We need to hold this level to head up to 421.
by JC
Thanks to everyone who joined us LIVE last night for our Mid-Month Conference Call.
Premium Members can access the video here and download all the slides.
Throughout the call we discussed how we want to continue to profit from this raging bull market in stocks.
The list of participants in this bull keeps getting longer, not shorter. We’re seeing more and more stocks going up, more sectors and more countries around the world participating to the upside. [Read more…]
by JC
This is the video recording of the April 2023 Mid-month Conference Call.
by Ian Culley
In a market overrun with whipsaws and failed moves, our gold mining trades are holding their breakouts and reaching our initial targets. Not many market areas can make that claim.
Today, I outline multiple mining stocks and highlight critical levels of potential resistance for gold and silver.
Check it out! [Read more…]
From the Desk of Steve Strazza @sstrazza and Alfonso Depablos @Alfcharts
This is one of our favorite bottom-up scans: Follow the Flow.
In this note, we simply create a universe of stocks that experienced the most unusual options activity — either bullish or bearish, but not both.
We utilize options experts, both internally and through our partnership with The TradeXchange. Then, we dig through the level 2 details and do all the work upfront for our clients.
Our goal is to isolate only those options market splashes that represent levered and high-conviction, directional bets.
We also weed out hedging activity and ensure there are no offsetting trades that either neutralize or cap the risk on these unusual options trades.
What remains is a list of stocks that large financial institutions are putting big money behind.
And they’re doing so for one reason only: because they think the stock is about to move in their direction and make them a pretty penny.
Then we flip through our list of stocks flashing unusual activity and pick the best setups using many of the same technical filters we do for our other scans.
And, just like that, we’ll follow the money flow and fatten our own pockets along with some of the world’s most powerful financial institutions.
by David
From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff
It was a sleepy market, and then the indices started to trend back up.
$SPY needs to get above 415 to get a move on higher.
From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza.
Welcome back to Under the Hood, where we’ll cover all the action for the week ended April 14, 2023. This report is published bi-weekly and rotated with The Minor Leaguers.
What we do here is analyze the most popular stocks during the week and find opportunities to either join in and ride these momentum names higher, or fade the crowd and bet against them.
We use a variety of sources to generate the list of most popular names.
There are so many new data sources available that all we need to do is organize and curate them in a way that shows us exactly what we want: a list of stocks that are seeing an unusual increase in investor interest.
Click here for a behind-the-scenes look at our process.
Whether we’re measuring increasing interest based on large institutional purchases, unusual options activity, or simply our proprietary lists of trending tickers, there’s a lot of overlap.
My man Steve Strazza’s reaction to this trade idea: “Yes! Bios have got some catch-up to play!”
I concur.
Though, I think we’ve got some overhead resistance that may slow the roll heading into summer. But that’s ok — we can use that to our advantage with a calendar spread.