It's not a bad thing for America, Americans or the American Stock Market that the largest companies in the country are going up in price.
The best players are scoring a lot of points.
That's perfectly normal.
In fact, if you go back and study every bull market over the past 100 years, you'll notice that Technology is a leader in almost every single one of them.
Tech stocks doing well, and outperforming other sectors, is just a classic characteristic of a bull market.
From the Desk of Steve Strazza and Alfonso Depablos
The most significant insider transaction on today's list comes via a Form 4 filing by Snowflake Inc $SNOW director Mike Speiser.
Speiser, also a managing partner at the private equity firm Sutter Hill Ventures, bought 76,200 of SNOW shares for a total amount of roughly $10 million.
Non-members can get a quick recap of the call simply by reading this post each month.
During our monthly calls, we focus on long-term charts in an effort to take a step back and put things into the context of their structural trends.
This is easily one of our most valuable exercises as it forces us to put aside the day-to-day noise and examine the markets from a “big-picture” point of view.
With that as our backdrop, let’s dive right in and discuss three of the most important charts and/or themes from this month’s call.
Welcome back to Under the Hood, where we'll cover all the action for the two weeks ended June 7, 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.
In what has become pretty well documented over the past two years or so, our Uncle Warren Buffett has been accumulating a very large position in Occidental Petroleum $OXY. He's been making his buys in the neighborhood of $55-60 per share. Like clockwork, every time $OXY has traded below $60 per share, we see new Form-4 filings disclosing another large purchase by Berkshire Hathaway.
We at All Star Charts were a little ahead of the crowd on this trade, having sold puts numerous times in $OXY over the past two years at these levels to take advantage of elevated options premiums and the "Buffett Support Zone."
