Up and away we go, with new highs all around.
As the saying goes, we’re overbought, but we can stay this way for some time.
Expert technical analysis of financial markets by JC Parets
by David
From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff
Up and away we go, with new highs all around.
As the saying goes, we’re overbought, but we can stay this way for some time.
by David
Today’s Hot Corner list is a short one.
Director John D. Harkey, Jr. revealed a purchase of 100,000 shares, equivalent to $852,000, in Lions Gate Entertainment Corp $LGF.B.
by David
From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff
It’s another new day, and maybe more new highs.
It’s getting harder to find longs.
We do get opportunities, but it’s more difficult with things stretched like this.
by JC
This is the video recording of the July 2023 Mid-month Conference Call.
From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza
Welcome to The Minor Leaguers.
We’ve had some great trades come out of this small-cap-focused column since we launched it back in 2020 and started rotating it with our flagship bottom-up scan, Under the Hood.
For the first year or so, we focused only on Russell 2000 stocks with a market cap between $1 and $2B.
That was fun, but we wanted to branch out a bit and allow some new stocks to find their way onto our list.
We expanded our universe to include some mid-caps.
To make the cut for our Minor Leaguers list, a company must have a market cap between $1 and $4B.
And it doesn’t have to be a Russell component — it can be any US-listed equity. With participation expanding around the globe, we want all those ADRs in our universe.
The same price and liquidity filters are applied. Then, as always, we sort by proximity to new highs in order to focus on the best players.
But, instead of all-time highs, we’re sorting by 52-week highs these days, as we don’t want to discriminate against energy or other cyclical stocks.
The goal is still to catch the strongest names while they’re small and have serious upside potential. If any of these stocks ever climb the ranks to the big leagues, the returns could be huge.
We’re looking at up to 10x moves just to break into large-cap land!
Let’s dive into this week’s report and see what’s happening in some of the hottest stocks in the Minor Leagues.
by David
From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff
It was kind of a range-bound day, though some names had nice movement.
$IWM and $QQQ led the way. [Read more…]
From the Desk of Steve Strazza @sstrazza and Alfonso Depablos @Alfcharts
This is one of our favorite bottom-up scans: Follow the Flow.
In this note, we simply create a universe of stocks that experienced the most unusual options activity — either bullish or bearish, but not both.
We utilize options experts, both internally and through our partnership with The TradeXchange. Then, we dig through the level 2 details and do all the work upfront for our clients.
Our goal is to isolate only those options market splashes that represent levered and high-conviction, directional bets.
We also weed out hedging activity and ensure there are no offsetting trades that either neutralize or cap the risk on these unusual options trades.
What remains is a list of stocks that large financial institutions are putting big money behind.
And they’re doing so for one reason only: because they think the stock is about to move in their direction and make them a pretty penny.
Then we flip through our list of stocks flashing unusual activity and pick the best setups using many of the same technical filters we do for our other scans.
And, just like that, we’ll follow the money flow and fatten our own pockets along with some of the world’s most powerful financial institutions.
by David
Today’s Hot Corner list is a short one.
The CEO of Calavo Growers $CVGW reported a purchase of 75,000 shares, equivalent to $2,275,500.