The caution flag is flying.

Broad selling pressure is hitting the markets as gold, silver, and mining stocks slide.

Will the Fed hike? Will it cut? Or will it finally pause?

I have no idea, and nor does anyone else.

But gold’s crazy cousin has some definitive answers for precious metals bulls…

The 24.75 level in silver marks the spot for the entire precious metals space.

Why?

Silver is the high-beta play. So if investors are pulling risk off the table, that key polarity zone in silver is most likely the first level to fall.

Last Wednesday, silver futures sliced through that critical level.

Note the bearish momentum divergence print on the 14-day RSI providing a poignant indication of waning strength. The bulls have stepped aside as the bears assume control. 

I have a neutral near-term bias for silver futures. Precious metals likely experience a range-bound choppy action as long as silver trades below the April pivot lows.

I will continue to focus on potential support levels, as I pointed out last week. It’s time to protect capital and recent gains.

Yet a few bright spots remain…

Despite...

The next new position in our Paid-to-Play portfolio is:

[9/28: updated our stop to $34]

I'm filing today's trade under the category of "Hard Trades." Not because it's particularly hard to execute or because it's a complicated multi-legged spread. It won't require an excessive amount of margin to get positioned nor is there any risk of unlimited losses.

It's hard because people might look at the trading action of the past few days and think that it's "gone too far" and "I should wait for a pullback."

And traders who think that way may be right.

But here's the thing: sometimes the best trades to get into are the best precisely because they are the "hardest" to pull the trigger on. And that's where our opportunity is. Those of us who fight through the conventional wisdom of average traders and get positioned ahead of the crowd will be lifted later on by those same traders who were "waiting for a pullback" and put an ever-rising bid underneath our stock that fuels our future gains.

Today's trade might be one of those setups.

This is what almost everyone I speak to tells me is going to happen.

They expect a failure up here in the S&P500, an inability to make new highs and instead, just an overwhelming rollover in stocks.

Here's what that looks like:

The largest insider transaction on today’s list is a Form 4 filing by Coliseum Capital Management LLC.

The hedge fund reported a purchase worth roughly $3.4 million in ModivCare $MODV.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

We saw a nice late-day rally in the market on Friday.

We're still in the chop zone, and we literally have about 14 Fed speakers this week...

This is the weekly post that aggregates all the charts we put together throughout the week and organizes them all into one, easy to flip through deck.

From the Desk of Ian Culley @IanCulley

Dr. Copper is limping into the close – on pace for its worst week since last November.

The risk-off tone that began earlier in the week is intensifying. Crude oil is turning lower. Gold is pulling back. And the equity indexes are drowning in a sea of red.

But nothing stings stock market bulls quite as badly as the breakdown in copper futures…

Copper just undercut a key polarity zone marked by the August 2022 pivot highs.

Those pivot highs represented a critical level of resistance that became support earlier this year. Fast-forward to today, and former support has given way to the bears, highlighted by an oversold reading...

From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza and Alfonso Depablos @AlfCharts

Our International Hall of Famers list is composed of the 100 largest US-listed international stocks, or ADRs.

We’ve also sprinkled in some of the largest ADRs from countries that did not make the market cap cut. 

These stocks range from some well-known mega-cap multinationals such as Toyota Motor and Royal Dutch Shell to some large-cap global disruptors such as Sea Ltd and Shopify.

It’s got all the big names and more--but only those that are based outside the US. You can find all the largest US stocks on our original Hall of Famers list.

The beauty of these scans is really in their simplicity.

We take the largest names each week and then apply technical filters in a way that the strongest stocks with the most momentum rise to the top.

Based on the market environment, we can also flip the scan on its head and filter for weakness.

Let’s dive in and take a look at some of the most important stocks from around the world.

Here’s this week’s list:

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From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

Happy Mother's Day!

$SPY was unable to hold on to the 412 area. We drifted lower all morning. 

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...