Today's trade is in a stock that has been seemingly left for dead. Which is ironic, considering this company is engaged in keeping people alive.
This biotech company is an astounding 95% off it's 2021 highs.
But here's the thing... this stock just crossed above its 50-day moving average and appears to be holding there. And with a new leg higher in the stock market likely to lift a lot of boats, there is opportunity here.
In this scan, we look to identify 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.
Some of the best performers in recent decades – stocks like Priceline, Amazon, Netflix, Salesforce, and myriad others – would have been on this list at some point during their journey to becoming the market behemoths they are today.
When you look at the stocks in our table, you'll notice we're only focused on Technology and Growth industry groups such as Software, Semiconductors, Online...
Back in early April, I made a bet that silver would play catch-up to the vastly outperforming gold complex utilizing an options trader's version of a pairs trade. You can read about it here.
Both instruments had a bit of a wild ride following the "Liberation Day" Luau, especially SLV. But thanks to the somewhat offsetting risks of the short-biased GLD trade, we road out the volatility admirably.
Today, following SLV's recent run and dramatic outperformance against GLD, I think now is the time to take our profits.
Welcome back to Under the Hood, where we'll cover all the action for the two weeks ended June 6, 2025. 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.
Click here for a behind-the-scenes look at our process.
Today's trade is in a silver miner that has already had a great run, but could surprise everyone by further doubling from here.
Buying after a big run is always hard, psychologically, and today is no different. So I'm going to take some of the sting out of the purchase with a creative spread and aggressive rolling strategy.