This is the weekly post that aggregates all the charts we put together throughout the week and organizes them all into one, easy to flip through deck.
2 to 100 Club (01-06-2022)
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.
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 retail, solar, etc.
Then, like any good technician, we filter the list down to those that are closest to new highs. This allows the cream of these strong groups to rise to the top and helps streamline our mission to identify technical breakouts in the top-performing stocks.
Nasdaq vs S&P500….
[Video] Options Trade of the Week w/ Sean & JC | Buying an $MU Bull Call Spread
We’re buying an $MU June 100/125 Bull Call Spread for an approximately $6.50 debit. This means we’re long the 100 calls and short an equal amount of 125 calls
Check out our short video with the thought process behind these trades: [Read more…]
Banks Bounce as Spreads Widen
From the desk of Steven Strazza @Sstrazza and Ian Culley @IanCulley
Downside pressure on long-duration rates and a flattening yield curve was the story of the bond market for the latter part of 2021.
But we started to see signs that downside risks were easing in the final weeks of December. The 10- and 30-year yields made a nice kick save after undercutting their summer lows, and high yield bonds $HYG began to outperform safer alternatives like the Treasury bond ETF $IEI.
It seemed like the bond market was heading in the right direction – except for Treasury spreads. The 2s/10s spread was the missing piece of the puzzle, continuing to push toward new 52-week lows…
Until now! [Read more…]
[Options] O-Micron!
If this blog post was served up to you when you were searching for the latest scare porn on the omicron covid pandemic, I’m sorry to disappoint. But if you’d like to draw a correlation between the rising omicron cases and rising share prices of Micron technology stock — you wouldn’t be the first person to commit a #ChartCrime in service of a good story.
Micron Technology $MU is a stock that’s been on my radar since the team published the Under the Hood report around Christmas highlighting the setup.
Here’s what they had to say:
January Strategy Session: 3 Key Takeaways
From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza
We held our January Monthly Strategy Session Monday night. Premium Members can access and re-watch it here.
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.
Capturing the Krona
From the desk of Steven Strazza @Sstrazza and Ian Culley @IanCulley
The rally in the US Dollar Index $DXY is stalling out.
With each passing day, dollar internals are weakening, and the prospect of a bullish resolution from the current continuation pattern in DXY is diminishing. We expect these patterns to resolve quickly. And when they don’t, that’s information.
Some other things worth noting are that commercial hedgers hold a large short position in DXY futures and the near-term bearish trend for individual dollar crosses is expanding (up 20% from last week to a staggering 80%).
The bottom line is evidence continues to stack against the USD.
With that as our backdrop, let’s check in on a long USD trade that was triggered in November and outline how we want to navigate the coming days and weeks.
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