From the Desk of Ian Culley @IanCulley

Nobody is paying attention to platinum.

It’s easy to overlook while gold shines and silver rips. But during the last commodity supercycle, platinum traded at a premium to the famous shiny yellow rock (and still does regarding retail jewelry).

Platinum was a powerhouse!

Check out gold and platinum futures overlaid going back to the 1970s:

Both peaked within a month of each other in the early 1980s and experienced rip-roaring rallies during the 2000s.

We're looking abroad for today's trade in a company involved in the manufacturing and sale of connectivity and sensor solutions.

The stock is breaking out of a multi-year base and it offers us a nearby risk management level to keep our stop tight which means the potential for nice gains versus a smaller risk of loss.

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 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:

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

1. No new positions today.
2. Adjustment to XHB position.
3. Exited IWM for a profit.
4. Current status of open campaigns.

Let's dig in!

Nobody is paying attention to platinum.

It’s easy to overlook while gold shines and silver rips. But during the last commodity supercycle, platinum traded at a premium to the famous shiny yellow rock (and still does regarding retail jewelry).

Platinum was a powerhouse!

From the Desk of Steve Strazza and Alfonso Depablos

The largest insider move on today’s list comes via Form 4 filing by Ari Emanuel, CEO of TKO Group Holdings Inc $TKO.

Emanuel reported a TKO purchase with a total value of $146 million.

In today’s Jam Session, I discussed the potential for markets to hit the pause button soon (if they haven’t already) and how that’s affecting my trade selection going forward.

Considering that some of our big winners have hit or are nearing our profit targets, or have been approaching expiration, it feels like a perfectly logical place for this pause to happen. $AMZN hit our upside price objective this afternoon!

And it might be earnings season that does it.

Earnings season is beginning again, and our first earnings casualty is already on the books with Fastenal $FAST getting taken to the woodshed this morning.

What the market taketh, I hope it will giveth back via an “add-on” trade we’ve got open in Wells Fargo $WFC. It is specifically betting on earnings being the catalyst to pop $WFC higher out of a high-and-tight flag.

The good thing about both the $FAST and $WFC trades is I have defined my risks beforehand. I don’t want my trades to become worthless following earnings, but if they do, the dollar loss to my portfolio will feel like any other small loss. No sweat.

We discuss this and more in this week’s short Options Jam Session:

From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

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 offer.

However, when it comes to our latest project, it couldn't be any simpler!

With the goal of finding more bullish setups, we have decided to expand one of our favorite scans and broaden our regular coverage of the largest US stocks.

Welcome to The Junior Hall of Famers.

This scan is composed of the next 150 largest stocks by market cap, those that come after the top 150 and are thus covered by the Hall of Famers universe. Many of these names will someday graduate and join our original Hall Of Famers list. The idea here is to catch these big trends as early on as possible.

There is no need to overcomplicate things. Market cap is a quality filter at the end of the day. It only grows if price is rising. That's good enough for us.

They keep telling you that interest rates are going down.

But interest rates keep going up.

The US 10-year Yield and US 30-year Yields are hitting the highest levels since Mid-November.

In the near-term rate markets, US 1-year and 2-year yields have been up and to the right all year, also hitting the highest levels since November.

Meanwhile, your boy Joe Biden is literally out there telling people that rates are going down.

He said it again yesterday.

This Biden guy is either lying to you. Or he hasn't even bothered to look.

And regardless of which side of the aisle you sit on, neither one of these answers is acceptable.

Why is the President of the United States lying to you about falling interest rates?

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

1. No new positions today.
2. Adjustment to XLV position.
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 move on today’s list comes via Form 4 filing by John E. Adent, CEO of Neogen Corporation $NEOG.

Adent reported a purchase of $284,190 in NEOG shares.