From the Desk of Steve Strazza and Alfonso Depablos
The largest insider buy on today’s list comes in a series of Form 4 filings by Elias Sabo, director and CEO of Compass Group Diversified Holdings LLC $CODI.
Sabo reported an aggregate CODI purchase worth roughly $2 million.
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This month’s Video Conference Call will be held on Monday February 5th @ 6PM ET. As always, if you cannot make the call live, the video and slides will be archived and published here along with every other live call since 2015.
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In this post, we’ll do our best to summarize it by highlighting five of the most important charts and/or themes we covered, along with commentary on each.
Check out crude oil futures slicing through the 75 level:
Kudos to those who took the signal, as it’s over a third of the way to our target of 83.
Crude is up 0.75% today alone, heading into the close with an intra-day high of 78.21. I like seeing strength heading into Friday’s close, as it often spills into the following week.
I imagine crude will hit our target within the next few weeks.
Our Hall of Famers list is composed of the 150 largest US-based stocks.
These stocks range from the mega-cap growth behemoths like Apple and Microsoft – with market caps in excess of $2T – to some of the new-age large-cap disruptors such as Moderna, Square, and Snap.
It has all the big names and more.
It doesn’t include ADRs or any stock not domiciled in the US. But don’t worry; we developed a separate universe for that. Click here to check it out.
The Hall of Famers is simple.
We take our list of 150 names and then apply our technical filters so the strongest stocks with the most momentum rise to the top.
Let’s dive right in and check out what these big boys are up to.
Here’s this week’s list:
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We filter out any laggards that are down -5% or more relative to the S&P 500 over the trailing month.
Then, we sort the remaining names by their proximity to new 52-week highs.
Despite their current rallies, the average investor isn’t concerned with cocoa, cotton, and lean hog futures.
I get it… What do lean hog futures have to do with Tesla $TSLA?
But Dr. Copper – with its Ph.D. in economics – is ripping higher this week.
And crude oil is trading above our risk level outlined last month.
Check out crude oil futures slicing through the 75 level:
Kudos to those who took the signal, as it’s over a third of the way to our target of 83.
Crude is up 0.75% today alone, heading into the close with an intra-day high of 78.21. I like seeing strength heading into Friday’s close, as it often spills into the following week.
I imagine crude will hit our target within the next few weeks.
I’m taking profits at our target without question. The 83 level marks a logical potential resistance zone. And crude trades closer to the lower bounds of a much larger consolidation.
I believe crude will eventually break above 83 further down the...