We held our February Monthly Strategy Session last week. 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.
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.
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...
There was little need to discuss the latest bullish developments for the broader market, as the individual setups painted a clear picture of continued breadth expansion.
If you missed it, be sure to check it out. And if you want to see what a bull market slide deck looks like, it's right here.
We're seeing growth stocks resolve higher from bearish-to-bullish reversal patterns. More and more small caps are popping up with new highs. And the strongest value and cyclical stocks that have been leading for years are breaking out to new record highs.
We're buying all of them.
Today, we have two financials and one industrial name. They're all making new all-time highs. Let's take a look.