Warren Buffett is making his first appearance on The Hot List, as Berkshire Hathaway $BRK.A purchased more than 90,000,000 shares of Occidental Petroleum $OXY last week.

OXY explores for and produces crude oil and natural gas. It’s actually the largest producer of natural gas liquids in the United States.

It's happening.

Investors are bearish.

Especially American ones with a ton of Growth exposure!

Want to know what a bag holder looks like? I encourage you to take a look at your typical American portfolio with a ton of Technology stocks in it, Consumer Discretionary stocks and virtually no exposure to Commodities and Latin American equities.

Of course sentiment is bad. It should be bad!

But this bad?

More Bearish Financial Advisors than Bullish ones?

That doesn't happen very often.

It's always fun dropping by the Ritholtz office in New York City.

Basically what happens is we yell at each other for about an hour, and then we go out to eat and drink until we pass out.

It's pretty great.

On this episode of the Compound and Friends, I sit down with Josh Brown, Michael Batnick, and my old pal Dan Nathan joined us this time as well.

As usual, we ripped through some charts, but we also discuss the best burger in New York City.

I thought my answer was the right one. But it turns out Dan Nathan was right all along. I trust this man with my life.

Hope you enjoy!

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:

Today’s Hot List is not as sexy at the headline level as yesterday’s, when we reported Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s latest stock transactions.

But there’s always good information below the surface.

Just to recap, Speaker Pelosi’s most recent Periodic Transaction Report filed with the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, which dropped just this week, includes five moves completed on January 21 and January 27, 2022.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is one of the most powerful politicians in America.

She’s also one of the best individual investors in the world.

A now-suspended Twitter account that used to track her trades noted in October 2021 that she’d managed a 69% annualized return over the trailing 10 years.

In 2021, though she was the top Democrat and she outperformed the S&P 500 Index by a decent margin, Pelosi trailed five Republican Members of Congress.

Dan Crenshaw of Texas, John Curtis of Utah, French Hill of Arkansas, and Brian Mast of Florida occupied the four spots just ahead of her.

Topping the list of Congress’s best investors in 2021 was Austin Scott of Georgia.

The highest-ranking Senator for 2021 was Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who ranked No. 19 overall of 35 total members of the House of Representatives and the Senate who beat the S&P.

That’s 35 solid investors out of a total of 635 Representatives and Senators.

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 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.

Over the last few weeks and months, the market has been messier than before. With so much going around, the most valuable thing we like to do is follow the price action.

The beginning of this week started with great strength coming through from the Metal stocks and we're here to highlight just that today.

Read on to know if your favourite stock made it to the list!

Metals, and here I mean base metals, have been doing the bulk of the lifting with Equity and Currencies moving sideways. Commodities have been showing a clear path of trend and have been the more profitable area to be invested in.

Take a look at our custom Equally weighted base metals chart below. Bottom left to top right. That's the signature of any good trend in a market. And this chart is doing just that.

Click on the chart to zoom in.

This is the video recording of our March 1st Monthly Charts Live Strategy Session

The market has been a mess and off late the geopolitical turmoil has been playing havoc as well. Metals have shown strength over the past week and that has been our area of focus. This week's long trade comes from the Metals segment.

Let's take a look at the trade for this week!

As investors we get the option.

You can either profit and help your family because of higher energy and commodities costs.

Or you can complain about it.

I've been through enough cycles at this point, that there will always be that group who just complains and complains.

But for those of you who are proactive, and took advantage of the trends in place, then there's really nothing to complain about.

To the contrary, these are great days! Some of the best days, in fact.

It's funny, because you have those people who bought into that scam of so called "passive" investing. It's ridiculous that some investors still fall for that old trap.

Just because you buy and hold major indexes doesn't make you a "passive" investor. You have to be really really really bad at math to believe that.