From the Desk of Steve Strazza and Alfonso Depablos

The largest insider buy on today's list comes via a Form 4 filing by Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments Inc $FOUR.

Isaacman reported a FOUR purchase of approximately $5.7 million.

From the Desk of Steve Strazza and Alfonso Depablos

The largest insider buy on today's list comes via two Form 4 filings by Bleichroeder LP.

The hedge fund bought 800,000 shares of CompoSecure Inc. $CMPO for a total of $5.2 million.

Look at this squeeze in GameStop $GME happening as we speak.

$GME more than doubled in price yesterday, finally closing up 75% on the day. That's a 200% rally in just a couple of weeks.

$GME is up another 90% pre-market today, as of the time of this writing...

From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza.

Welcome back to Under the Hood, where we'll cover all the action for the two weeks ended May 10, 2024. This report is published bi-weekly, in rotation with The Minor Leaguers.

What we do here is analyze the most popular stocks during the week and find opportunities to either join in and ride these momentum names higher, or fade the crowd and bet against them.

We use a variety of sources to generate the list of most popular names.

There are so many new data sources available that all we need to do is organize and curate them in a way that shows us exactly what we want: a list of stocks that are seeing an unusual increase in investor interest.

From the Desk of Steve Strazza and Alfonso Depablos

The largest insider buy on today's list comes via two Form 4 filings by Coliseum Capital Partners.

The hedge fund reported a purchase of $908,675 in MasterCraft Boat Holdings $MCFT.

Aaaaaand, we're back!

Look at this squeeze in GameStop happening as we speak.

From failed moves come very fast moves in the opposite direction....

Months and months are going by with little to no progress at all in the major U.S. Stock Market Indexes.

Just look at the returns by sector since the beginning of March.

The leaders have been Utilities, Energy and Consumer Staples.

The biggest losers are the investors who've owned Technology and Consumer Discretionary.

Here, see for yourself:

From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

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.

Here's this week's list:

I love a stock that people hate for reasons that have nothing to do with the stock.

We've seen it so many times before and I promise that we'll see it again.

These days the most amount of anger is being pointed towards Trump Media.

Dig this:

• People hate the company
• People hate the Trump
• People hate SPACs

This checks off all 3 boxes.

I love that!

From the Desk of Steve Strazza and Alfonso Depablos

The largest insider buy on today's list comes via two Form 4 filings by James Gorman, executive chairman of Morgan Stanley and director of The Walt Disney Company $DIS.

Gorman bought 20,000 DIS shares, equivalent to $2.1 million.

In yesterday's note we talked about the lack of progress in most U.S. Stocks and Indexes over the past several months.

It's been a frustrating market for some traders.

That's why we've been doing this instead.

Look at the Median stock right now, stuck at the exact same price it was way back in December.

We're now in May:

From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

We love our bottoms-up scans here at All Star Charts. We tend to get really creative when making new universes as we want to be sure they will deliver us the best opportunities the market has to offer.

However, when it comes to our latest project, it couldn't be any simpler!

With the goal of finding more bullish setups, we have decided to expand one of our favorite scans and broaden our regular coverage of the largest US stocks.

Welcome to The Junior Hall of Famers.

This scan is composed of the next 150 largest stocks by market cap, those that come after the top 150 and are thus covered by the Hall of Famers universe. Many of these names will someday graduate and join our original Hall Of Famers list. The idea here is to catch these big trends as early on as possible.

There is no need to overcomplicate things. Market cap is a quality filter at the end of the day. It only grows if price is rising. That's good enough for us.