From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

New Mystery Chart!

For those new to the exercise, we take a chart of interest and remove the x/y-axes and any other labels that would help identify it. The chart can be any security in any asset class on any timeframe on an absolute or relative basis. Maybe it’s a custom index or inverted, who knows!

We do all this to put aside the biases we have associated with this specific security/the market and come to a conclusion based solely on price.

You can guess what it is if you must, but the real value comes from sharing what you would do right now. Buy, Sell, or Do Nothing?

From the desk of Louis Sykes @haumicharts

Welcome to this week’s edition of Louis’ Look, where I document the lessons I’ve learned in the last week through interning at All Star Charts.

Today, I want to take a step back from the hectic world of financial markets and remind us all of two very important things:

1. Having some fun every now and then.
2. Being passionate about the work you do.

This is our ASC Research Q4 Playbook.

The first section dives deep into the US Stock Market, and the second half covers International Stock Markets and FICC (Fixed Income, Commodities & Currencies).

You can skip right to the trade ideas here if you'd like, or give the full report a read!

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza and Louis Sykes @Haumicharts

At the beginning of each week, we publish performance tables for a variety of different asset classes and categories along with commentary on each.

Looking at the past helps put the future into context. In this post, we review the relative strength trends at play and preview some of the things we’re watching in order to profit in the weeks and months ahead.

In recent week's RPP Reports, we've discussed how Equity Markets had become more of a mixed bag with many key assets trading right at or near critical levels.

This week, we'll follow up on some of these areas we've been pointing out in recent reports and see how they look now.

The bottom line is that while there have definitely been more bullish than bearish developments since last week, prices continue to flirt with the risk levels we've previously outlined.

We still believe the weight of the evidence is in favor of the bulls, but with so many assets at inflection points, we're paying close attention to every new day's data as it...

As a trader, I've always looked forward to Mondays. These days, I like them even more because I get to act upon some great trading ideas published in the Under the Hood report which the ASC research team puts out every weekend. There have been so many great plays coming out of the report lately. (Have you seen $PTON??? wow.)

And this most resent one has given me an idea for a "plan" today.

This week we're looking at a long setup in the Pharma sector.

We retired our "Five Bull Market Barometers" in mid-July to make room for a new weekly post that's focused on the three most important charts for the week ahead.

This is that post, so let's jump into this week's edition.

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza.

Welcome to our "Under The Hood" column for the week ended October 9, 2020.

What we do 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.

Whether we're measuring increasing interest based on large institutional purchases, unusual options activity, or simply our proprietary lists of trending tickers... there is a lot of overlap.

The bottom line is there are a million ways to skin this cat. Relying on our entire arsenal of data makes us confident that we're producing the best list each week and gives us more optionality in terms of finding the most favorable trade setups for our clients.

Here is this week's list of the most popular stocks. We have a diverse list full...

Energy stocks in India, the US, and other global markets have been a disaster for a long time. In fact, despite strength in stocks as an asset class, we've been finding short opportunities in the sector.

With Reliance being 33% of the Nifty Energy Index, let's take a look at what's happening in the space and how we're approaching it.

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 longer-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 payouts every year for 5-9 years.

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

By adding our technical research to the mix,...

The All Star Charts research team is about to release a new report called the "Young Aristocrats." I've seen the preview and one of the stocks on their list is setting up nicely today for a breakout, so I'm wasting no time to get involved.