As many of you know, something we've been working on internally is using various bottom-up tools and scans to complement our top-down approach. It's really been working for us!
One way we're doing this is by identifying the strongest growth stocks as they climb the market-cap ladder from small- to mid- to large- and, ultimately, to mega-cap status (over $200B).
Once they graduate from small-cap to mid-cap status (over $2B), they come on our radar. Likewise, when they surpass the roughly $30B mark, they roll off our list.
But the scan doesn't just end there.
We only want to look at the strongest growth industries in the market, as that is typically where these potential 50-baggers come from.
PSU Banks are generally slow to catch up on a bullish trend. But speed is not what we're after. We're trying to lock into accuracy. So we wait patiently until the alarm bells go off and then we look into PSUs.
Well, its that time again! We have some stocks here that are displaying strength and some that are just breaking out. Let's take a look at this list, shall we?
Let's start off with an index view, just to see where we're at in the trend.
Guess what we have at an index level when it comes to the PSU Banks? 2-year highs, folks! PSUs had been struggling to sustain above the crucial level of 2,700. As you can see, the price movement in the recent past has been full of whipsaws. We finally have new highs coming off of those whipsaws as well.
With the price gaining momentum, we're looking out for targets close to 3,445 and 3,730.
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.
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.
The stock we're looking at this week is part of the Industrial Manufacturing sector. Let's examine which name has made it to our scan this time. Also, check out our latest post on Industrial Manufacturing stocks paving the way for the next leg of the rally!
The Industrial sector has been on our radar throughout this year. The Nifty 500 peaked in October 2021, whereas stocks from the industrial sector continued to show resilience. Our outperformers scan list is full of industrial stocks.
Our Custom ASC Industrial Index is making a new all-time high on an absolute and a relative basis. We are looking for opportunities to add based on price breaking above the consolidating or options to add within an ongoing bullish uptrend. Finally, we'll look into potential multi-year breakouts.
In this post, we'll update the trade ideas from the last post and add a few new actionable setups that look attractive on the long side for the next few weeks and months.
Our Hall of Famers list is composed of the 150 largest US-based stocks.
These stocks range from the mega-cap growth behemoths like Apple and Microsoft – with market caps in excess of $2T – to some of the new-age large-cap disruptors such as Moderna, Square, and Snap.
It has all the big names and more.
It doesn’t include ADRs or any stock not domiciled in the US. But don’t worry, we developed a separate universe for that. You can click here to check it out.
The Hall of Famers is simple.
We take our list of 150 names and then apply our technical filters so the strongest stocks with the most momentum rise to the top.
Let’s dive right in and check out what these big boys are up to.
With stocks posting a broad rally this week, we found a handful of names from our Inside Scoop universe that are on the verge of breaking out from bullish chart patterns.
As we discussed on Wednesday’s call, even the leaders are struggling to hold new highs lately.
For this reason, we want to be patient with these setups and be prepared for false starts.
With that said, these are some of the strongest names from the strongest industry groups right now.
If the market is kicking off a fresh rally, these are the kinds of stocks we expect to lead it.
