From the Desk of Alfonso Depablos @Alfcharts

The stock market has been under duress for the past two months as bears have taken control and driven the major averages to their lowest levels since early June.

Whether you look at the large-cap indexes or the strongest sectors and industry groups, they are all stuck below overhead supply.

And with price action continuing to deteriorate, many of these charts are now carving out potential short-term tops.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

We finally had a bounce...

Now, in order to continue higher, $SPY needs to stay above 432.

This is the video recording of the September 28, 2023, Hot Corner Insider Weekly Strategy Session.

From the Desk of Steve Strazza and Alfonso Depablos

The largest insider buy on today's list comes by the CEO and one director of Agree Realty Corporation $ADC.

The two insiders filed separate Form 4s reporting ADC purchases with a combined value of $1.6 million.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

What I'll be looking for today is if $SPY can hold on to the 425.50 area.

We need to defend this area.

Otherwise, we can head quickly down to 420 and then the 200-day moving average at 418.60.

From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

Welcome to The 2 to 100 Club.

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...

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

Today $SPY closed the gap I spoke about at 422.92, and we bounced.

We'll see if we continue higher tomorrow...

From the Desk of Steve Strazza and Alfonso Depablos

The largest insider buy on today’s list comes in a Form 4 filing by Eli Samaha, founder and managing partner of Madison Avenue Partners LP.

Samaha reported a purchase of $558,528 in Synovus Financial Corp $SNV.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

As of now, $SPY is holding the 425 area.

We could see a bounce, but I think it would be short-lived.

Again, not a ton of names stand out to me.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

It was straight selling all day, no bounces.

$SPY has some support here at 425, then 422.92.

There's potential for a gap down tomorrow. 

From the Desk of Steve Strazza and Alfonso Depablos

The largest insider buy on today’s list comes in a Form 4 filing by RA Capital Management.

The investment firm reported a purchase of $8.1 million in the small-cap biotech company ARS Pharmaceuticals Inc $SPRY.

From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

Welcome to our latest Minor Leaguers report.

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.

And it doesn't have to be a Russell component — it can be any US-listed equity. With participation expanding around the globe, we want all those ADRs in our universe.

The same price and liquidity filters are applied. Then, as always, we sort by proximity to new highs in...