While many investors have been focused on arbitrary lagging indicators like the economy, we rather keep our attention on reality.

We're grown adults. We don't need bedtime stories to go to sleep at night. So fairytales about recessions, or inflations, or bidens are just not anything we're interested in.

We get paid to sell things at higher prices than where we buy them.

And the bet we've been making for a long time is that the negative correlation between the US Dollar and stocks will remain in place.

That bet has paid off handsomely for us and anyone listening.

So as investors we all have a choice. Do we bet that the correlation is all of a sudden going to change tomorrow? Or do we bet that things just remain the same?

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From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

The market overall was up and away today.

We have CPI data for June coming out at 8:30 a.m. ET and more Fed speakers on the schedule for tomorrow.

The largest insider buy on today’s list comes in a 13G filing by Mackenzie Financial Corporation.

The Canadian investment firm revealed an increase in its ownership stake in CAE Inc $CAE from 7.30% to 10.05%.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

Today we have a Fed speaker and tomorrow we have CPI.

$IWM is clearly trying for 190, and all's right with stocks.

From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza.

Welcome back to Under The Hood, where we'll cover all the action for the week ended July 7, 2023. We publish this report on a bi-weekly basis, rotating it 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.

Whether we’re measuring increasing interest based on large institutional purchases, unusual options...

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.

We also weed out hedging activity and ensure there are no offsetting trades that either neutralize or cap the risk on these unusual options trades.

What remains is a list of stocks that large financial institutions are putting big money behind.

And they’re doing so for one reason only: because they think...

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

It was a mixed day overall, with Big Tech lagging.

$IWM was the clear leader and has potential to 190.

The largest insider buy on today’s list comes in a Form 4 filing by Daniel David Daniel III, director of Domo Inc $DOMO.

Daniel reported a purchase of 26,400 DOMO shares, equivalent to $357,580.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

We have a big week ahead of us, with quite a few Fed speakers and CPI.

$SPY and $QQQ reversed lower on Friday, and the oil services sector was on fire.

Question is, will it continue. I'll be watching some of these names.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

The market ended the week on an up note.

Overall, the indices traded higher and names lifted.

We held our July Monthly Strategy Session on Wednesday night. ASC Premium Members can click here to review the recording and the chartbook.

Non-members can get a quick recap of the call simply by reading this post each month.

By focusing on long-term, monthly charts, the idea is to take a step back and put things into the context of their structural trends.

This is easily one of our most valuable exercises as it forces us to put aside the day-to-day noise and simply examine markets from a “big-picture” point of view.

With that as our backdrop, let’s dive right in and discuss three of the most important charts and/or themes from this month’s call.

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

Our International Hall of Famers list is composed of the 100 largest US-listed international stocks, or ADRs.

We’ve also sprinkled in some of the largest ADRs from countries that did not make the market cap cut. 

These stocks range from some well-known mega-cap multinationals such as Toyota Motor and Royal Dutch Shell to some large-cap global disruptors such as Sea Ltd and Shopify.

It’s got all the big names and more -- but only those that are based outside the US. You can find all the largest US stocks on our original Hall of Famers list.

The beauty of these scans is really in their simplicity.

We take the largest names each week and then apply technical filters in a way that the strongest stocks with the most momentum rise to the top.

Based on the market environment, we can also flip the scan on its head and filter for weakness.

Let’s dive in and take a look at some of the most important stocks from around the world.

Here’s this week’s list:

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