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After years of consolidation, oil & gas stocks are breaking out

For the past few years, energy has been the most misunderstood and underallocated sector in the market. 

And that’s precisely what makes what’s happening right now so important.

From 2020 through 2022, energy experienced one of the...

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got away

Sometimes doing everything right still hurts.

On January 7th, I was attempting to buy RVMD February 85 calls when the stock was trading around $82-83 per share. The bid-ask spread was wide—in the neighborhood of $3.20 bid, $3.70 offered.

I...

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  1. IN: XLB
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  4. Current status of open campaigns.
  5. Volatility Snapshot.

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From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

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...

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Earnings season is the heartbeat of the market, and every day brings fresh signals about where money is flowing.

With each report, we learn not just how companies are performing, but how investors are reacting.

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Interactive Brokers, who many of you may trade through, is breaking out.

Apparently, you've all been doing a lot of trading and driving their revenues (they thank you).

Let's try to earn back some of those commission fees, shall we?

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From the Desk of Sam Gatlin @sam_gatlin

We love our bottoms-up scans here at All Star Charts. We tend to get really creative when making new universes as we want to be sure they will deliver us the best opportunities the market has to...

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I don’t think Jerome Powell is confused.I don’t think he’s panicking.And I definitely don’t think he’s flying blind.

I think Powell sees exactly what the market is showing anyone willing to look past CPI headlines: inflation is bubbling under...

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In today’s Daily Digest, we’ll review the following:

  1. IN: USO
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  4. Current status of open campaigns.
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For nearly twenty years, the market played by a simple set of rules:

Growth over value.

This trend guided portfolios and dominated positioning for more than a decade.

But now the question is...

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Earnings season is the heartbeat of the market, and every day brings fresh signals about where money is flowing.

With each report, we learn not just how companies are performing, but how investors are reacting.

In the Daily...

Daily Beat

In today’s Daily Digest, we’ll review the following:

  1. IN: XLP
  2. OUT: USO
  3. PROFIT TARGETS: None
  4. Current status of open campaigns.
  5. Volatility Snapshot.

Let’s dig in!

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From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

Welcome to The 2 to 100 Club.

As many of you know, something we've been working on internally is using various bottom-up...

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This note highlights a select group of stocks showing the most unusual — and highly directional — options activity.

The goal is simple: follow the big money and trade in the direction of the underlying...

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Earnings season is the heartbeat of the market, and every day brings fresh signals about where money is flowing.

With each report, we learn not just how companies are performing, but how investors are reacting.

In the Daily...

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Gold vs Stocks

What if Gold still hasn’t begun to outperform equities in any meaningful way?

I know it sounds counterintuitive, especially after precious metals led the tape and outpaced nearly everything last year.

But the...

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Welcome to Boomtown

Most natural resource stocks, even the bellwethers of Metals or Energy, for example, can’t scale to $3 Trillion in market cap. They’re simply not built like the juggernauts of tech or communications.

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break it

Yesterday, I put on a type of options trade I don't do a lot of—a put ratio spread.

For those unfamiliar, a put ratio spread involves selling one slightly out-of-the-money put while buying two (or more) puts at a further out-of-the-money strike...

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In today’s Daily Digest, we’ll review the following:

  1. IN: USO
  2. OUT: XLP
  3. PROFIT TARGETS: None
  4. Current status of open campaigns.
  5. Volatility Snapshot.

Let’s dig in!

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