From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza and Alfonso Depablos @AlfCharts
Risk appetite is returning to markets as breadth expands beneath the surface for US and international equities.
Insiders are getting more active and more aggressive, and the number of bullish opportunities from our Inside Scoop universe continues to increase gradually.
We think the coming months and quarters will be a favorable environment for those looking to buy stocks.
With that said, we have a handful of bullish setups today. Let's dive right in.
What do the movies The Wizard of Oz and The Matrix have in common? The answer is that they both are stories about artificial intelligence. The Wizard of Oz is one of the earliest examples of this in popular culture, with the philosophical question of what types of AI matter most - was it the Scarecrow, who needed brains (computational power), or the Tin Man, who needed heart (the emotional intelligence to understand us)?
Thanks to the efforts of early pioneers in the field like Alan Turing in the 1950s, who helped address and begin work on these problems, we can fast forward 70 years and marvel at contemporary companies like OpenAI, that have solved many of those initial challenges.
Here at All Star Charts, we’re more old school – but we’re not outdated. We know that the foundations of technical analysis are predicated on the study of behavioral science, and how biases like price anchoring, fear, and greed create repeatable patterns we can take advantage of.
And since we’re on the subject, it turns out that investors, computers, whoever or whatever is driving the market moves we’re seeing today; they’re paying attention heavily to...
From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza and Alfonso Depablos @AlfCharts
Our International Hall Of Famers list is composed of the 100 largest US-listed international stocks, or ADRs.
We’ve also sprinkled in some of the largest ADRs from countries that did not make the market cap cut.
These stocks range from some well-known mega-cap multinationals such as Toyota Motor and Royal Dutch Shell to some large-cap global disruptors such as Sea Ltd and Shopify.
It’s got all the big names and more--but only those that are based outside the US. You can find all the largest US stocks on our original Hall of Famers list.
The beauty of these scans is really in their simplicity.
We take the largest names each week and then apply technical filters in a way that the strongest stocks with the most momentum rise to the top.
Based on the market environment, we can also flip the scan on its head and filter for weakness.
Let’s dive in and take a look at some of the most important stocks from around the world.
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...
The largest insider transaction on today’s list is a Form 4 filing by Abdiel Capital Management LLC, which reported a purchase worth roughly $8.7 million in Appian Corporation $APPN.
The hedge fund now has an ownership stake of nearly 12%.
In this weekly note, we highlight 10 of the most important charts or themes we’re currently seeing in asset classes around the world.
Bitcoin Bounces Back!
Bitcoin has been on an absolute tear, gaining roughly 25% since last week and booking seven consecutive up-days. Not only is price reclaiming its prior cycle highs from 2017, but momentum (as measured by the 14-day RSI) is registering its highest reading in two years. As shown in the table, price has also reclaimed its 200-day moving average, ending the second longest streak on record spent below it over the course of 2022.