From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

Markets continued higher today...

And then, around 2:00 p.m. ET, the indices took a much-needed breather.

The largest insider buy on today's list is a Form 4 filing by Steve Miron,  director at Charter Communications $CHTR.

Miron revealed the purchase of $960,875 worth of CHTR shares.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

For some time now, I've said $SPY can touch 410. We're here now.

If we continue to hold on and slightly contract, then SPY can see 421.

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.

From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza 

In case I haven't been obnoxious enough, we are in the early stages of a new bull market.

I cannot be more clear about this. I feel it in my bones.

Today, the Fed had their first meeting of the year, and did exactly what everyone thought they would do. The market flew straight into rally mode as soon as the press conference began. There were no surprises.

This is because, very much unlike 2022, the path of least resistance for risk assets is now higher.

We're seeing risk-on action characterize the tape on a regular basis.

Breakouts are sticking. The list of new highs is growing longer and longer. Meanwhile, new lows are almost non-existent, and the breakdowns from December have failed and followed through higher.

It's all bull market stuff.

Along the same lines, we're seeing more and more stocks offer bullish chart setups that we want to be buying. And we're entertaining all of them.

It's time to be aggressive on the long side.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

What a day... February started off with a bang!

I mentioned in the live trading room that if the market likes what Fed Chair Jerome Powell has to say we can see $SPY 410.

We sure did hit that level... and then some.

This is the video recording of our February 1, 2023, Inside Scoop Weekly Strategy Session.

Where I come from do you know what we call higher lows and higher highs?

Uptrends.

Do you know what stocks do in bull markets?

They go up.

And speaking of going up, we just watched the Small-cap Russell2000 Index go out at new 10-month highs.

Do you know what's not evidence of a downtrend?

New 10-month highs.

The largest insider buy on today's list is a Form 4 filing by Randal Kirk, the executive chairman of Precigen $PGEN.

Kirk revealed the purchase of roughly $20 million of his own stock from him, increasing his ownership stake to 46.2%.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

Hello, February! Let's see if you can live up to January.

Today is Fed day. I'm  sure we'll see wild swings in both directions initially, and then the market will subside.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

We closed January, the first month of the year.

And it's a positive start for 2023.

It's a market of stocks.

People forget that.

They choose to obsess over every tick in the S&P500 or Nasdaq instead of recognizing what's happening among the actual components of those indexes.

As it turns out, this has become one of our competitive advantages.

If you're wondering why we tend to be ahead of the curve on changes in major trends, I would point to this.

Most people don't have the time (or are too lazy) to sit there and count how many stocks are going up vs how many are going down.