From the Desk of Steve Strazza and Alfonso Depablos

The largest insider buy on today’s list comes in a Form 4 filing by Eli Samaha, founder and managing partner of Madison Avenue Partners LP.

Samaha reported a purchase of $558,528 in Synovus Financial Corp $SNV.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

As of now, $SPY is holding the 425 area.

We could see a bounce, but I think it would be short-lived.

Again, not a ton of names stand out to me.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

It was straight selling all day, no bounces.

$SPY has some support here at 425, then 422.92.

There's potential for a gap down tomorrow. 

From the Desk of Steve Strazza and Alfonso Depablos

The largest insider buy on today’s list comes in a Form 4 filing by RA Capital Management.

The investment firm reported a purchase of $8.1 million in the small-cap biotech company ARS Pharmaceuticals Inc $SPRY.

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 Kimmy Sokoloff

Yesterday we saw the market enjoy a decent bounce, but this morning it's like that move never happened.

 The indices are indicating at the lower range.

Once again, not too many names are exciting right now.

This has to be it right?

How is this one not the world's most important chart?

With the US 10-year Yield hitting the highest levels in 15 years, Crude Oil has caught a bid lately hitting the highest levels all year.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

Overall, that was a decent bounce today.

We'll see if it continues through the week.

If we do get a heavy one, $SPY has potential to 438.

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 Steve Strazza and Alfonso Depablos

The largest insider buy on today’s list comes in a Form 4 filing by Broadwood Capital.

The firm reported a purchase of roughly $11.6 million in STAAR Surgical Company $STAA.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

The market has been in a steady decline since mid-September.

I'll be truthful: As of right now, not too much is interesting to me.

I need to see how stocks act today.

On the eve of Chart Summit 2023, let's take a look at how some of the most important areas of the market are holding up during what is seasonally the most bearish time of the year.

Technology represents close to 30% of the S&P500 and almost half the entire Nasdaq100. And here it is going out at its lowest weekly close since May: