It’s the weekly Gold Rush!
While Gold futures digest overhead supply, strength broadens across the metals space.
Check it out… [Read more…]
Expert technical analysis of financial markets by JC Parets
by Ian Culley
It’s the weekly Gold Rush!
While Gold futures digest overhead supply, strength broadens across the metals space.
Check it out… [Read more…]
by Ian Culley
From the Desk of Ian Culley @IanCulley
Plenty of gold bugs have Krugerrands buried in their backyard or basement – if not secured in a safety deposit box at their local bank.
It’s no wonder gold falls under the “end-of-the-world” category of assets.
Regardless, gold prices can also rise with risk assets.
I raise this point not only as an important reminder but because it’s pivotal to understanding our bullish thesis for precious metals.
It’s a metals story…. [Read more…]
From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza
Welcome to our latest Minor Leaguers report.
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.
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 on the best players.
But, instead of all-time highs, we’re sorting by 52-week highs these days, as we don’t want to discriminate against energy or other cyclical stocks.
The goal is still to catch the strongest names while they’re small and have serious upside potential. If any of these stocks ever climb the ranks to the big leagues, the returns could be huge.
We’re looking at up to 10x moves just to break into large-cap land!
Let’s dive into this week’s report and see what’s happening in some of the hottest stocks in the Minor Leagues.
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
The market sold off most of the day, and, as of now, we’re holding at $SPX 4,015.
Should we break below the eight-day moving average, we can head to SPX 3,992.
A little pullback in stocks today has opened up the window for us to sell some options premium as a nice portfolio hedge for our predominantly long portfolio.
We don’t need a long preamble here. The plan is simple: I’m going to enter a delta-neutral credit spread in an ETF that is currently atop my list of ETFs sorted by implied volatility.
by JC
As well as stocks all over the world have been doing over the past few months, the overhead supply in the major US Large-cap Indexes remains in place.
In other words, these large-cap, growth-heavy, market gauges still have work to do.
A couple of months ago we reiterated our more neutral positions in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P500, wanting to focus more of our attention on individual stocks and sectors.
That tactical approach has worked out well.
But fast forward to today, and they’ve yet to make any progress. [Read more…]
by David
From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff
This week is very busy.
We’ve got tons of economic data, a Fed rate decision on Wednesday, and Big Tech earnings on tap.