From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

We have some big, heavyweight earnings tonight, with $AMZN and $AAPL reporting.

The market is still pulling in, but August is typically a weak month.

We're in a tough spot, as names are in between.

This is the video recording of our August 2nd Monthly Charts Live Strategy Session

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 Kimmy Sokoloff

$SPY dropped down to its 21-day moving average, and $QQQ broke below its own 21-day.

We'll see if this is a one-day wonder or if the Fitch downgrade has more meaning.

This is the video recording of the August 2, 2023, Hot Corner Insider Weekly Strategy Session.

The largest insider transaction on today’s list comes in a Form 4 filing by Blackford (Beau) F. Brauer, director at Commerce Bancshares $CBSH.

Brauer reported a purchase of CBSH shares worth $265,003.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

After normal trading hours yesterday, Fitch downgraded the US.

As of now, it's been a muted response. We'll see if it turns into something bigger.

I did tell traders last week having a hedge does not hurt.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

The market is taking a breather.

We still have a lot of earnings to contend with this week.

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.

The only insider transaction on today’s list comes in a Form 4 filing by the CEO of Triumph Group $TGI, Chong Chan Teo.

Teo reported a small purchase of TGI shares worth $101,095.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

We're turning the corner into the last stretch of summer.

The market has been very resilient through all negative news.

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.