For the past seven weeks, it was “do-or-die” for my favorite football team, the Buffalo Bills.
They came into the season as one of the favorites to make it to the Super Bowl. Las Vegas even had them at good odds to win it all for the first time in franchise history.
Of course, nobody can predict the future. Not in sports, not in markets, not anywhere.
And naturally, the real world had different ideas.
Twelve games into the seventeen-game season, it looked like all was lost and Bills fans would have to “wait ’til next year” once again. The Bills’ record was just 6-6 and they were looking up at 10 teams ahead of them in line for only 7 available playoff spots.
It looked like it was over. They faced a situation where their only real path to make it to the playoffs was to win their final five games. And those final five games were scheduled against a gauntlet of teams who were locks for the playoffs already — each with their own valid dreams of winning the Super Bowl.
The entire All Star Charts team is presently in NYC hosting our Portfolio Accelerator event. So I will skip the preamble and get right to the point for today's trade in $TSM...
Welcome back to Under the Hood, where we'll cover all the action for the week ended January 19, 2024. This report is published bi-weekly, in rotation 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.