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

New highs for $QQQ once again...

There hasn't been any cooling off for the indices just yet.

We'll see what this week brings.

The most significant transaction on today's list comes in a Form 4 from Diversified Healthcare Trust director Adam Portnoy.

Portnoy revealed a purchase of $14.7 million in DHC.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

It's going to be a busy week, with CPI tomorrow and the Fed on Wednesday.

We must be on our toes and trade tactically.

The new 52-week highs list keeps on getting longer.

You can add the S&P500 ETF $SPY to that list now.

Here's what that looks like:

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

It wasn't  the strongest Friday, but $SPY did take out the August high.

Next week will be a big one for data. I still think we can see SPY 422.92 sooner versus later.

The most significant transaction on today's list comes in a Form 4 filing by Thomas W. Warsop III, president and chief executive officer of ACI Worldwide Inc $ACIW.

Warsop revealed the acquisition of 43,000 shares of ACIW, equivalent to $1 million.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

It's Friday again, and it's options expiration again.

Trading can be harder on days like these, so it's a good idea to trade smaller.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

Even though the indices trended higher today, it felt like we weren't moving at all.

Tomorrow is Friday, and for the past few weeks they've been running the market higher.

If this is a bull market, then what comes next?

Breadth Expansion.

More upside participation.

Sector Rotation.

The list of the 52-week highs getting longer.

We've been betting that this is a bull market since last year. That has worked in our favor.

But what does the market need to do to reiterate that we are still, in fact, in a strong, healthy bull market?

More new highs.

Here's a look at the NYSE new 52-week highs list creeping higher in recent weeks.

The largest insider buy on today's list comes in a Form 4 filing by the executive vice president and chief people officer of Stericycle $SRCL.

That purchase was worth $308,618.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

Let see what today brings.

I still think it would be healthy for the indices to pull in further.

$SPY closing its gap down to 422.92 would be a decent contraction.