Welcome to TheJunior International Hall of Famers.
With the goal of finding more bullish setups, we have decided to expand one of our favorite scans and broaden our regular coverage of the largest US-listed international stocks, or ADRs.
This scan is composed of the next 100 largest stocks by market cap, those that come after the top 100 and are thus covered by the International Hall of Famers universe.
Many of these names will someday graduate and join our original International Hall Of Famers list. The idea here is to catch these big trends as early on as possible.
Let’s dive right in and check out what these future big boys are up to.
This is our Junior International Hall of Famers list:
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And here’s how we arrived at it…
We removed laggards which are down 5% or more relative to the ACWI Ex. U.S. Index $ACWX over the trailing...
It’s what we’ve been telling our clients, and it’s been our mantra internally.
This has been the top pattern to profit from lately. Period.
It’s simple, reliable, and works best in bullish environments like this one.
I’ve been putting more and more money behind these patterns over the past few weeks. Not only do they keep resolving higher, but the reaction legs have been fierce— some going flat-out vertical.
Today I closed a winning trade. Booked a gain. The kind of thing I tell others (and myself) to celebrate.
So why do I feel bad about it?
Maybe “bad” isn’t the right word. More like unsettled.
Here’s the situation:
The stock had started to break down a bit on the daily chart, so I followed my process and exited. Textbook move, right?
But here’s what’s bothering me…
The stock is still above its 50-day moving average.
It’s still in a hot sector.
And I had January 2027 calls. That’s over 18 months until expiration!
With that much time, why did I feel the need to micromanage?
This is one of those moments where the trade was technically breaking support, yes — but the bigger question I’m sitting with is: Did I kneecap this trade too early? Did I cut off a potential monster winner because I was too zoomed in?
My risk was defined. I could’ve ridden it longer.
Maybe smaller sizing would’ve helped me let it breathe?
Maybe I’m just overthinking? (I do that.)
But one reminder that helps bring me back to center:
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Lately, I’m noticing more people talking about how the market has “come too far too fast.” Some are even licking their chops, ready to jump in short and try to catch what they’re sure will be an “epic reversal.”
This kind of talk makes me uncomfortable.
Not because I disagree that a pullback could happen — anything can happen. But because I know the psychology behind this kind of positioning. It’s not usually about...
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...