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.

Expert technical analysis of financial markets by JC Parets
by JC
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.

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.
by Ian Culley
From the Desk of Ian Culley @IanCulley
Buying opportunities abound across commodities.
It’s easy to miss this phenomenon if you’re solely focused on the major indexes, as the CRB Index and the Bloomberg Commodity Index $BCOM broke down earlier this month.
Don’t let those charts mislead you. Plenty of sweet setups present themselves.
And the next chart is by far my favorite…
by JC
Stocks stopped going down a long time ago.
In bear markets stocks go down in price.
In bear markets you get more and more stocks making new lows.
In bear markets the indexes don’t keep putting up major gains quarter after quarter.
And so what’s been happening in the current market environment? [Read more…]
by JC
The S&P500 is on track to put up another terrific quarter of returns – up over 5% so far for Q1 2023.
And remember, this comes after rallying over 7% in Q4 2022.
These are very impressive results for equities, despite all the gloom and doom they’re telling your parents on the evening news.
Funny, as strong as stock market returns have been in America the past 2 quarters, European equities have been exponentially stronger.
The Euro STOXX 50 is up over 13% in Q1. And this comes after a monster quarter in Q4 last year where Europe rallied 25%.
These are some of the greatest stock market returns of all time.
Meanwhile, the glorified gossip columnists are telling you it’s a crisis.
You see the difference? [Read more…]
Aha! moments often occur when we are faced with a problem or a situation that requires us to think outside the box. They can happen when we are struggling to find a solution to a problem, and suddenly, a new idea pops into our heads.
Think about the story of Archimedes, who had an Aha! moment when he saw the water in his bathtub overflow. Suddenly, he realized that the volume of an object can be measured by the amount of water it displaces.
Another example of an Aha! moment is when we finally understand a concept that we have been struggling with for a long time. It can be a concept in mathematics, science, or even in our personal lives. For me, they often happen in my world of trading.
In fact, I would argue that a career spent engaged in trading the markets by definition is a career defined by hops from one Aha! moment to the next. [Read more…]
by Ian Culley
From the Desk of Ian Culley @IanCulley
Bonds are taking a breather as stocks recover.
Bond market volatility is cooling off as the banking collapses and the March Fed meeting fade from the front page.
And it appears the volatility has left big unresolved bases in US Treasuries in its wake…
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 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.