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Filings Reveal Bullish Moves in Multiple Sectors

June 22, 2022

SkyKnight Capital Fund disclosed the purchase of approximately $1.6 million worth of shares in the home medical equipment company AdaptHealth Corp $AHCO, as it continues to build a position in the stock.

The fund now owns 8,906,070 shares, which represents a roughly 6.15% ownership stake in the medical devices company.

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Eyeing ETHBTC

June 22, 2022

As technicians, we tell it as it is.

By focusing the vast majority of our research on price action, we're simply following money flow. We hate to sound like a broken clock, but if you're following something other than money flow, it's just noise.

Ignore it.

Money flow is by definition the only driver that impacts markets. That spans from price action, derivatives data, order flow, and, in the case of cryptocurrencies, on-chain.

Apart from that, all else is noise.

In this process, we typically have a rather binary view of markets.

"Above this level, we own it. Below there, we leave it alone."

We constantly say this for a reason.

We're not trying to be obnoxious in repeating itself. We are quite literally adjusting our thoughts based on money flow.

"Strong opinions, weakly held," as they say.

 

 

[Premium] Trade Of The Week

June 22, 2022

The market correction has extended over the past few weeks and the negative sentiment build-up is definitely not something that will fade away quickly. As more and more sectors move below their support zones, buy ideas are hard to come by. Today we're sharing a short idea from the financial services sector.

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The Bright Side of a Strong Dollar

June 21, 2022

From the desk of Steven Strazza @Sstrazza and Ian Culley @IanCulley

Whatever we’re looking for, the market has it.

If we’re searching for large topping patterns and strong downtrends, there’s plenty to go around, especially in the bond and stock markets right now.

Some people love taking the short side, feeding on the doom and gloom narratives accompanying the selling pressure.

But if that’s not your cup of tea, plenty of markets are trending higher. If you’re more interested in assets making new highs and like buying high and selling higher, look no further than the currency market.

When it comes to forex crosses these days, it’s simple.

All we have to do is put the US dollar in the numerator or place the Japanese yen in the denominator, and we get big bases that have either broken out or are on the verge of breaking out.

It’s that easy.

We’ve highlighted the yen in recent posts, so today we’ll switch gears and focus on a couple USD crosses from northern Europe.

Let’s dive in!

Here’s the US dollar/Swedish krona cross:...

[PLUS] Weekly Market Notes

June 21, 2022
From the desk of Willie Delwiche.

Key Takeaway:

  • Patient investors will let the bulls prove their case.
  • Economic risks on the rise as data disappoints.
  • Central bank action adding pressure to market and economy.
When we look at the data we have in hand, avoiding recession is looking more and more like a dubious proposition. Last week’s retail sales data showed that adjusted for inflation, retail sales in May were below year ago levels. While COVID-related distortions have added to the volatility in sales data, the last three recessions  have all been associated with year over year declines in retail sales. XRT (the Retail ETF)is currently more than 40% below its November peak and the two prior times it found itself in a 40% drawdown (2008 and 2020), the economy was already in recession. New orders data from the Philly Fed show an...
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The Minor Leaguers (06-21-2022)

June 21, 2022

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...

Biotech Stocks See Bullish Options Flow

June 21, 2022

The largest insider transaction on today’s list comes in a Form 4 filing from Allied Physicians of California.

The firm reported a purchase of roughly $9.2 million in Apollo Medical Holdings $AMEH. It now owns about 11 million shares for a total ownership interest of 19%.

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[Premium] Mid-Month Conference Call Video Recording June 2022

June 20, 2022

This is the video recording of the June 2022 Mid-month Conference Call.

We discussed:

  • The S&P500 and Dow Jones Composite stuck below overhead supply
  • Major US Indexes are below their AVWAPs from the COVID lows
  • 30 consecutive weeks of more stocks making new lows than new highs
  • Seasonality could become a tailwind in July
  • Sentiment is as bad for stocks as I've ever seen
  • Relative strength out of Chinese Internet and other "culprits"
  • Bitcoin near important support
  • The US Dollar controls all of this. All eyes on DXY
  • Breadth Deterioration in Commodities
  • Long opportunities in Financials
  • Defensive Sectors are vulnerable
  • Gold is still below overhead supply
  • Copper/Gold ratio breaking down pointing to lower rates
  • Japanese Yen hits new multi-decade lows
  • Buy the dip in bonds? I think so
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Follow the Flow (06-20-2022)

June 20, 2022

From the desk of Steve Strazza @sstrazza

This is one of our favorite bottom-up scans: Follow the Flow. In this note, we simply create a universe of stocks that experienced the most unusual options activity — either bullish or bearish, but not both.

We utilize options experts, both internally and through our partnership with The TradeXchange. Then, we dig through the level 2 details and do all the work upfront for our clients.

Our goal is to isolate only those options market splashes that represent levered and high-conviction, directional bets.

We also weed out hedging activity and ensure there are no offsetting trades that either neutralize or cap the risk on these unusual options trades.

What remains is a list of stocks that large financial institutions are putting big money behind.

And they’re doing so for one reason only: because they think the stock is about to move in their...

[PLUS] Weekly Top 10 Report

June 20, 2022

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

Our Top 10 Charts Report was just published.

In this weekly note, we highlight 10 of the most important charts or themes we're currently seeing in asset classes around the world.

Structural Damage For Smalls

Equities all around the world are having a brutal start to the summer as selling pressure spreads across the board. All of the US major averages are completing tops and registering new closing lows. 

The Small Cap Russell 2000 Index has been the weakest as IWM is currently testing a critical support zone at its 2018 and 2020 highs. We will be watching closely in the coming days to see how prices react to this area of former resistance turned support.

Bulls want to see this level hold. However, if price violates these former highs, we have to anticipate another leg lower and increased selling pressure for stocks more broadly. Seeing more and more risk assets fall back below their 2018 and 2020 highs is a big feather in the hat for bears. The S&P 500 is still about 7% above its 2020 highs of 3400.

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[PLUS] Weekly Momentum Report & Takeaways

June 20, 2022

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

Check out this week's Momentum Report, our weekly summation of all the major indexes at a Macro, International, Sector, and Industry Group level.

By analyzing the short-term data in these reports, we get a more tactical view of the current state of markets. This information then helps us put near-term developments into the big picture context and provides insights regarding the structural trends at play.

Let's jump right into it with some of the major takeaways from this week's report:

* ASC Plus Members can access the Momentum Report by clicking the link at the bottom of this post.

Macro Universe:

  • This week, our macro universe continued lower again as 89% of our list closed in the red with a median return of -4.69%.
  • The Volatility Index $VIX was the winner, closing with a 12.18% gain.
  • The biggest loser was Dow Jones Utilities $DJU, with a weekly loss of -9.46%.
  • There was a 7% drop in the percentage of assets on our list within 5% of their 52-week highs – currently at 4%.
  • 9% of our macro list made fresh 4-...

Checking In On The Worst Stocks

June 20, 2022

How's the Bear Market treating you?

We're going on over 16 months of this so far, and counting....

Remember, stocks peaked in February of 2021, meaning that was the best things were for stocks during this cycle. And it's been a slow deterioration ever since.

The first stocks to peak are what we refer to as the "Culprits". Every bear market has that group that you can point to as the leaders to the downside.

We came into 2022 with a close eye on those Culprits (see here) and we've continued to monitor their declines.

If you haven't been following along, those groups include Chinese...

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Assessing an Asymmetric Opportunity to Dollar-Cost-Average

June 20, 2022

From the desk of Louis Sykes @haumicharts

Naturally, after a drawdown like the crypto markets have endured, this is the part of the cycle where everyone tries to call a bottom. Of course, we don't need to discuss the dangers of this treacherous journey of bottom-calling where many traders eventually meet their fate.

There is perhaps no worse setup for active traders than in environments like these.

Times like these are when volatility is rampant, emotions are elevated, and bad decisions are made.

But, there are two antidotes:

  1. Don't trade, be patient, and buy when upward momentum returns.
  2. Dollar cost-average in the value zones.

For the most part, we continue to hammer down the first point. Going back to December, we've been preaching patience and high cash positions.

But today, we want to address the potential credence in the notion of Bitcoin dollar-cost-averaging in the context of this recent selloff.

 

 

 

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[Options P2P] The Right To Change Our Minds

June 20, 2022

One of the arts of discretionary trading is practicing the ability to change our minds when facts or circumstances change.

We are not wed to following a rule rook.

There is no requirement to do "x" when "y" happens.

Of course, few discretionary traders succeed without some set of rules that are more like Best Practices. The rules may be fluid and change with market conditions, but there are almost always some guardrails in place. If for no other reason than to protect ourselves from ourselves.

The broad market selloff these past couple weeks has caused us to defensively roll a bunch of our short puts, which has eaten into our overall net positive cashflow. This will happen from time to time. But it definitely has spurred me to update my guardrails.

As the June monthly options cycle rolled off the board this past week, this makes July monthly options the "front month" options. As such, any new positions we'll be adding starting this coming week will be in the August monthly expiration series.

Since we'll be starting to roll out of our July options, I wanted to update you on how I likely see our current positions playing...

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Copper/Gold No Longer on Hold

June 17, 2022

From the desk of Steven Strazza @Sstrazza and Ian Culley @Ianculley

One of the most important risk ratios and easily the biggest snooze fest from the past year is finally starting to move. 

That’s right – after going nowhere for more than a year, the Copper/Gold ratio is making a directional move! And believe it or not, it’s resolving in the opposite direction of interest rates.

Instead of following rates higher, Copper/Gold is rolling over to the downside and raising questions regarding risk appetite and overall market health.

And from the looks of today’s price action, Dr. Copper is breaking down on an absolute basis as well.

We can’t emphasize the importance of these developments enough. We’ve been awaiting resolutions of these ranges since early last year, and it’s finally happening.

Let’s talk about it.

Here’s an overlay chart of the Copper/Gold ratio and Copper futures:

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