This is the video recording of the March 8, 2023, Inside Scoop Weekly Strategy Session.

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

We held our March Monthly Strategy Session on Monday night. Premium Members can access and rewatch it here.

Non-members can get a quick recap of the call simply by reading this post each month.

By focusing on long-term, monthly charts, the idea is 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 simply examine 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.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

That was a very volatile day, as we had Fed Chair Jerome Powell speaking.

And he's speaking tomorrow too.

Last night was our Live Conference Call that I host at the beginning of each Month.

It gives us an opportunity to take a step back and identify the direction of primary trends.

This is helpful, because without understanding the environment we're in, how could we possibly pick and choose which tools and strategies to incorporate?

This step often gets forgotten about by investors.

Many would rather just shove their strategy down the market's throat whether it makes sense for that environment or not.

I find that foolish.

One chart that I thought told an important story last night was the Nasdaq Composite plotted with the New Highs - New Lows list.

It shows the bottoming "process" taking place beneath the surface:

The largest insider buy on today's list comes from DISH Network Corporation $DISH co-founder and executive vice-president, James DeFranco. 

DeFranco revealed a purchase of $15.7 million worth of DISH shares in his latest Form 4.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

So, the market had a little bit of a rug-pull yesterday.

I'd like $SPY to hold the 404 level, otherwise we run the risk down to 402.

This is the video recording of our March 6th Monthly Charts Live Strategy Session

From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza.

Welcome back to Under the Hood, where we'll cover all the action for the week ended March 3, 2023. This report is published bi-weekly and rotated 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.

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.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

Nice pop this morning in the indices, then we dropped.

I was hoping for $SPY to close the gap at 408 before the sell-off, but that didn't happen.

The largest insider buy on today's list comes in a Form 4 filing by Russell J. Weiner, the CEO of Domino's Pizza $DPZ.

Weiner revealed a $1 million purchase of DPZ shares.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

It was a big two-day move in the indices. $SPY went from 392 up to 404 -- now that's some power.

I think we can use a rest under the SPY 405 level then potentially push through to 408.