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.

From the Desk of Steve Strazza @sstrazza and Alfonso Depablos @Alfcharts

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.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

Overall, I'll give the market credit: It hung on most of the day.

Tomorrow morning we have a CPI report, so that may be a different story.

The most significant insider transaction on today’s list comes in a 13D from Carl Icahn reporting an increase in his Southwest Gas Holdings $SWX stake.

Icahn now owns 12.64% of outstanding shares, a significant change from the 9.8% he reported on October 26.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

The market is very erratic right now.

Last night the futures were as high as 3,970, and now we're back to 3,900.

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza and Alfonso Depablos @AlfCharts

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. Click here to check it out.

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:

The largest insider buy on today's list comes in a Form 4 filing by Energy Holding Corp.

The firm revealed a $21 million purchase of Tecnoglass $TGLS shares.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

What a week.

On Monday in the live trading room I said $SPY is at 407.40, and we are extended to lock in some profits.

I didn't think we'd see SPY 390 in a matter of days.

From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

Dividend Aristocrats are easily some of the most desirable investments on Wall Street. These are the names that have increased dividends for at least 25 years, providing steadily increasing income to long-term-minded shareholders.

As you can imagine, the companies making up this prestigious list are some of the most recognizable brands in the world. Coca-Cola, Walmart, and Johnson & Johnson are just a few of the household names making the cut.

Here at All Star Charts, we like to stay ahead of the curve. That's why we're turning our attention to the future aristocrats. In an effort to seek out the next generation of the cream-of-the-crop dividend plays, we're curating a list of stocks that have raised their payouts every year for five to nine years.

We call them the Young Aristocrats, and the idea is that these are "stocks that pay you to make money." Imagine if years of consistent dividend growth and high momentum and relative strength had a baby, leaving you with the best of the emerging dividend giants that are outperforming the averages.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

All the major indices broke below their 200-day moving averages.

That's not really what I wanted to see, but it happened.

The biggest Form 4 filing on today's hot list is from Catherine Spear, CEO of FIGS Inc $FIGS.

Spear reported the purchase of 790,000 FIGS shares, equivalent to $4.9 million.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

If the market can hold on to yesterday's low, I think there's potential we can head higher.

We really need to push past $SPY 400 with force and head straight to 405, then 408.