From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

Last Week, we held our November Monthly Conference Call, which Premium Members can access and rewatch here.

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.

Let’s get right into it!

In today's Daily Digest, we'll review:

1. No new position was added today.
2. Defensive adjustment in XLB.
3. No exits since the last report.
4. Current status of open campaigns.

Let's dig in!

From the Desk of Steve Strazza and Alfonso Depablos

The largest insider buy on today’s list comes in Form 4 filings by Gregory T. Lucier, director of DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc $XRAY.

Lucier reported the acquisition of 10,000 shares, equivalent to  $314,400.

It's amazing when you think about it.

The stock market is having a historic year. The S&P500 is up over 20% so far, with one of the best months of the year still ahead.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is just 2% from new all-time highs.

And the Nasdaq100 got off to its best start to a year in history, and has already returned over 46% for 2023.

What's odd is that with all this good news, investors are still sad.

It's hard to quantify sentiment data, but I think we do as good of a job as anyone else out there.

When you aggregate all the data and include a variety of different polls and indicators, somehow investors are still extremely pessimistic:

From the Desk of Ian Culley @IanCulley

Mining stocks are breaking out.

All four names we outlined in last week's Gold Rush Video have triggered buy signals.

The tide appears to swing in favor of the gold bugs.

And, based on Monday’s bullish price action, perhaps it’s just the beginning.

Check out the next gold miner most likely to break loose…

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza.

Welcome back to Under the Hood, where we'll cover all the action for the week ended November 24, 2023. 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.

Click here for a behind-the-scenes look at our process.

Whether we’re measuring increasing interest based on large institutional purchases, unusual options...

Ok, I took some liberties with today's title. I can already hear JC groaning. Blog post titles are not my strength. I accept this.

A book I recently read (Number Go Up), and today's trade in $LIN inspired my thinking about lines going up.

Moving on, let's get into what we like about this stock and how we're playing it with options.

In today's Daily Digest, we'll review:

1. New position added today: XRT
2. No defensive adjustments were made to any existing positions.
3. No exits since the last report.
4. Current status of open campaigns.

Let's dig in!

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

Dividend Aristocrats are easily some of the most desirable investments on Wall Street. These are the names that have increased dividends for at least 25 years, providing steadily increasing income to long-term-minded shareholders.

As you can imagine, the companies making up this prestigious list are some of the most recognizable brands in the world. Coca-Cola, Walmart, and Johnson & Johnson are just a few of the household names making the cut.

Here at All Star Charts, we like to stay ahead of the curve. That's why we're turning our attention to the future aristocrats. In an effort to seek out the next generation of the cream-of-the-crop dividend plays, we're curating a list of stocks that have raised their payouts every year for five to nine years.

We call them the Young Aristocrats, and the idea is that these are "stocks that pay you to make money." Imagine if years of consistent dividend growth and high momentum and relative strength had a baby, leaving you with the best of the emerging dividend giants that are outperforming the averages.

By adding our technical analysis to the mix, the Young...

From the Desk of Ian Culley @IanCulley

Mining stocks are breaking out.

All four names we outlined in last week’s Gold Rush Video have triggered buy signals.

The tide appears to swing in favor of the gold bugs.

And, based on Monday’s bullish price action, perhaps it’s just the beginning.

Check out the next gold miner most likely to break loose…

Eldorado Gold $EGO is carving out a classic inverted head-and-shoulders pattern:

Risk is well-defined at the neckline, highlighted by a series of former highs.

This former resistance level reveals a significant supply zone that’s capped higher prices and subdued overzealous gold bugs since early 2021.

But that all changes on a break to new multi-year highs.

I’m long EGO on a daily close above 12.25, with an initial target of 16.50 and a secondary objective just beyond the next extension level at approximately 25.

I adjusted my longer-term aim based on the critical polarity zone coinciding with the 2016 peak:

The difference between the two levels is negligible. And I want to give precious metal mining stocks plenty of room to run.

Gold...

From the Desk of Steve Strazza and Alfonso Depablos

The largest insider buy on today’s list comes in Form 4 filings by the CEO and the CFO of Arbor Realty Trust $ABR.

The executives filed Form 4s revealing $456,950 in combined purchases.

Think about it. We were told there was a crisis.

We were promised a recession that could come at any minute.

Inflation was going to destroy the financial system.

Instead, European Banks are making new 52-week highs.

I'm old enough to remember when European Banks used to sell off during a crisis.

So if this is a bear market or some kind of credit event situation, investors sure have a funny way of showing it.