In bull markets you'll see a lot more stocks making new highs than new lows.

In the current market environment we're used to seeing the opposite.

Here's an update on how that's going. For those of you keeping track at home, we're now going on 34 consecutive weeks of more stocks making new lows than new highs:

If you've been following along over the years, you've heard me mention plenty of times that breadth thrusts tend to cluster together early on in market uptrends.

Well, a funny thing happened yesterday - we had our first 9-to-1 up volume day on the NYSE since May.

To quote Willie, "Stringing 2 of these together without an intervening 9-to-1 down day would be a very positive development".

Here's what that looks like:

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

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 which you can check out here.

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.

Here’s this week’s list:

Click table to enlarge view

And here’s how we arrived at it:

Filter out any stocks that are below their May 10th 2021 high, which is when new 52-week highs peaked for the S...

Last night, the Wall Street Journal reported that Paul Singer’s Elliott Management is now the largest investor in Pinterest $PINS, having built a stake greater than 9%.

While the hedge fund hasn’t filed anything with the SEC yet, it has apparently been in discussions with the social media company for the past several weeks.

We should know more soon.

Warren Buffett continues to increase his position in the oil and gas exploration and chemical manufacturing company Occidental Petroleum $OXY.

Yesterday, Berkshire Hathaway $BRK.A filed another Form 4, revealing roughly $250 million of new purchases.

From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

When investing in the stock market, we always want to approach it as "a market of stocks."

Regardless of the environment, there are always stocks showing leadership and trending higher.

We may have to look harder to identify them depending on current market conditions… but there are always stocks that are going up.

The same can be said for weak stocks. Regardless of the environment, there are always stocks that are going down, too. 

We already have multiple scans focusing on stocks making all-time highs, such as Hall of Famers, Minor Leaguers, and the 2 to 100 Club. We filter these universes for stocks that are exhibiting the best momentum and relative strength characteristics. 

Clearly, we spend a lot of time identifying and writing about leading stocks every week, via multiple reports. Now, we're also highlighting lagging stocks on a recurring basis.

Welcome to the Short Report.

We publish this column...

"JC what's on your mind these days?"

I get asked this a lot. So it keeps me on my toes.

But it's a great exercise, even if you're not being asked regularly by colleagues and journalists.

So what is on my mind?

It's this.

It's still this.

It's the strong Dollar preventing stocks and crypto assets from rising in price:

This is the video recording of our July 13, 2022, Inside Scoop Weekly Strategy Session.

The largest insider transaction on today’s list is a Form 4 filing by famed tech investor Bill Gurley.

Today we're going to discuss a long idea from the Services sector. It's a name you've heard of in the logistics departments. Let's take a look!

The Massachusetts-based hedge fund Wellington Management Company has been active, as it filed three separate 13Gs yesterday.

The filings revealed passive ownership stakes of about 10% in Whiting Petroleum $WLL and Steven Madden $SHOO.

In bear markets, you're going to find more stocks making new lows than new highs.

That's just basic math.

In bull markets, you'll see the opposite.

Here's what today looks like: 33 consecutive weeks of more stocks hitting new lows than new highs.