The most significant transaction on today's list comes in a Form 4 filing by Danaos Corp $DAC, which revealed a purchase of $7.2 million in Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc $EGLE.

Danaos has quietly amassed an 11.32% ownership stake in its competitor in recent months.

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

Tuesday night we held our June Monthly Conference Call, which Premium Members can access and rewatch here.

In this post, we’ll do our best to summarize it by highlighting five of the most important charts and/or themes we covered, along with commentary on each.

Let’s get right into it!

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

Tech pushed higher yesterday.

Let's see if we have follow-through today.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

The market's been in consolidation mode, and that continued today -- except for the typical $AAPL/$AMZN/$GOOGL/$MSFT rally.

$SPY and $QQQ reclaimed their eight-day moving averages.

We had a resting GTC order filled at our profit target in the Paid-to-Play portfolio today:

The next new position in our Paid-to-Play portfolio is:

The most significant transaction on today's list comes in a 13G filing by Ecor1 Capital.

Ecor1 raised its ownership stake in Zymeworks Inc $ZYME from 11.80% to 19.90%.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

As I write, $SPY and $QQQ are below their respective eight-day moving averages.

They could potentially be heading down to their 21-day moving averages, which is roughly 429 on SPY and 354 on QQQ.

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

Welcome to the 2 to 100 Club.

Something we've been working on internally is using various bottoms-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.

Some of the best performers in recent decades – stocks like Priceline, Amazon, Netflix, Salesforce, and myriad others – would have been on this list at some point during their journey to becoming the...

From the Desk of Ian Culley @IanCulley

Dollar bulls, be warned!

The US Dollar Index $DXY is sliding toward the lower bounds of a multi-month range. 

Yes, it’s still a sideways mess. And it will remain a mess as long as its former support level holds.

But based on the most recent data, my money is on a downside resolution for King Dollar.

Especially when I consider last week’s breakout in Canadian dollar futures…

Besides the DXY trading below 101, I’ve monitored two key data points for confirmation of continued dollar weakness:

• the euro trading above 1.08, as it constitutes over 57% of the DXY (though recently it’s challenged a 1.10 handle); and
• commodity currencies, including the Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand dollars, reclaiming their respective July pivot lows.

It’s difficult to imagine the DXY ripping higher if its dominant component is completing a bearish-to-bullish reversal. Which the euro is.

Check.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

The Nasdaq pulled in the most today, with $QQQ dropping down to its eight-day moving average.

Now, this is either a bull flag or we'll head lower.

We had a resting GTC order filled at our profit target in the Paid-to-Play portfolio today:

This is the video recording of the June 21, 2023, Hot Corner Insider Weekly Strategy Session.

The next new position in our Paid-to-Play portfolio is:

We had a resting GTC order filled at our profit target in the Paid-to-Play portfolio today:

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

This morning the market is unchanged.

And we have Fed Chair Jerome Powell speaking at 10:00 a.m. ET.

The most significant transaction on today's list comes in a Form 4 filing by Matrix Capital Management.

The hedge fund reported the acquisition of 4,760,000 shares, equivalent to $107.8 million, in the small-cap biotech company Zentalis Pharmaceuticals, Inc $ZNTL.

This is the video recording of the June 2023 Mid-month Conference Call.

From the Desk of Ian Culley @IanCulley

I left gold bugs an urgent message last week.

“This mess could turn downright ugly for the entire precious metals space if buyers don’t step in and support higher prices in palladium – and fast.”

I am many things, but “alarmist” isn't one of them. I simply find it hard to believe gold will post new all-time highs while palladium falls to fresh five-year lows.

Call me crazy, but those two puzzle pieces don’t seem to fit.

Perhaps we’ll never know for sure, as buyers showed up right on cue, driving palladium higher ahead of the three-day weekend. 

Last week’s strength bodes well for all metals, industrial and precious. So I’ll reiterate critical levels to trade against in palladium.

But I also want to share a strong correlation between this multifaceted metal and a market I would never have guessed…