Last year they would complain that the biggest growth stocks were not participating in the stock market rally.

This year they're complaining that the biggest growth stocks are participating too much in the stock market rally.

It's quite obvious that people just like to complain.

We've already addressed the fact that this is perfectly normal, healthy sector rotation, and NOT a weakening breadth issue.

See here.

Periods of concentrated leadership do not necessarily mean widespread distribution.

Besides, it hasn't just been 5 stocks that have been going up. Or 7 stocks, or even 10.

A lot of stocks, in both the U.S. and around the world, have already been going up for some time.

From the Desk of Ian Culley @IanCulley

Commodities are on the rocks.

Our Equal-Weight 33 Commodity Index is printing fresh two-year lows. Crude oil is hanging around the lower bounds of a multi-month consolidation. And Dr. Copper is loitering below former support.

This isn’t bull market behavior.

But just as the stock market is a market of stocks, the commodity market is a market of, well, a diverse set of commodities.  

So, while I don’t want to buy many high-profile procyclical contracts – and certainly not the commodity indexes – I do like the more obscure areas showing strength…

Areas such as uranium!

I outlined my case for uranium stocks at the start of the year. It was pretty simple: If gold and copper are printing fresh highs, peripheral areas likely enjoy a bid. That includes uranium.

Perhaps copper hasn’t had the best first half, but gold and other precious metals...

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

The S&P 500 is nearing the 4,300 level -- June is starting out very strong.

The question is, will it last?

I'll trade the ideas and stick to certain themes I have.

Always remember, shorts are VERY hard. Most should never short. Know your risk.

[12/4: updated stop to 250]

It feels like whatever items have been holding the broader markets back are falling by the wayside one by one, clearing the path to the next leg higher in this bull market.

And with volatility (as measured by $VIX) making new yearly lows, it's getting more affordable to make a bullish play with simple long call option trades.

So we're going to do just that!

We had a resting GTC order filled at our profit target in the Paid-to-Play portfolio today:

We've adjusted a position in the Paid-to-Play portfolio today:

The largest insider buy on today's list comes in a Form 4 filing by Grocery Outlet Holding Corp $GO director Erik D. Ragatz.

Ragatz revealed the purchase of 70,000 shares of GO.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

It was a short week in the market, and the indices are making new highs this morning.

The past few Fridays have been bullish, so we'll see if we hold these pre-market gains.

From the Desk of Ian Culley @IanCulley

US interest rates have churned within a tight range for months. 

Remember: Sideways is a trend. 

While intermarket evidence suggests a breakdown in yields, they simply refuse to roll over.

It makes perfect sense when we zoom out…

Rates are in a well-defined structural uptrend!

Check out the US 30-year Treasury yield overlaid with live cattle futures:

They look almost identical as both exhibit the classic base-on-base formation – one upside resolution followed by another.

To be clear, I’m not proposing a grand thesis regarding a strong positive correlation between long-duration rates and live cattle futures, or what the next directional move in live cattle and rates mean for AI stocks (though I haven’t dismissed the idea).

Instead, I’m simply observing the trend that began in early 2020. 

I chose to place live cattle futures on the chart for effect – a...

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

Wow, what a way to start the month of June.

The market was full speed ahead.

We've adjusted a position in the Paid-to-Play portfolio today:

The largest insider buy on today's list comes in a Form 4 filing by CNX Resources Corporation $CNX director Bernard Lanigan Jr.

Lanigan revealed a purchase of 137,835 shares of CNX.