From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

The market is rallying before the August PPI print at 8:30 a.m. ET. 

There's a gap on $SPY at 449.17 that could potentially get filled today.

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

With the stock market trading sideways for the past two months, we're still finding pockets of strength and individual names that offer favorable risk-reward opportunities.

While we do want to be more selective through this corrective phase, we also don't want to miss anything. The bull market is still alive and well. This kind of sector rotation and digestion of gains is nothing out of the ordinary. While it plays its course, we want to continue to bet on leaders.

Let's dive in and check out some of our favorite setups from our Hot Corner universe this week.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

What a wacky, whippy market.

We're stuck under resistance on $SPY at 447.14 or so.

We still have headwinds, with August PPI tomorrow and the Fed next week.

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 and Alfonso Depablos

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

Icahn revealed a purchase of $7.8 million in Southwest Gas Holdings $SWX.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

We have August CPI data coming out at 8:30 a.m. ET.

I'll look for ideas after the release, as I expect volatility.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

The market is waiting for August CPI data on Wednesday morning.

It felt like we were at a standstill.

From the Desk of Steve Strazza and Alfonso Depablos

The largest insider transaction on today’s list comes in a Form 4 filed by Coliseum Capital Management LLC.

The hedge fund reported a purchase of ModivCare Inc $MODV shares with a total value of $6.4 million.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

Overall, it was nice action in the markets yesterday.

We still have a gap on $SPY at 449.17.

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 @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

It was a two-way market today.

We dropped down to fill the gaps on the indices.

Then we headed back uphill.