This is the video recording of the July 2021 Conference Call.
[PLUS] Weekly Market Notes & Breadth Trends
- Defensive sectors are perking up on an absolute and relative basis. Utilities, Consumer Staples and Real Estate were all positive last week (Staples even made a new high) and they occupy the top three spots in our short-term relative strength rankings. Staples and Utilities are still longer-term relative strength laggards.
- Real Estate remains the top-ranked sector (and is an industry group leader) across the size spectrum.
The Minor Leaguers (07-19-2021)
From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza
Welcome to our latest “Minor Leaguers” report.
We’ve already had some great trades come out of this small cap-focused column since we launched it late last year and started rotating it with our flagship bottoms-up scan, “Under The Hood.”
To make the cut for our Minor Leagues list, a company must have a market cap between $1 and $2B. There are also price and liquidity filters. Then, we simply sort by proximity to new highs in order to focus on the best players only.
The goal is to catch the strongest names while they’re small and still have serious upside potential. If any of these stocks ever climb the ranks to the big leagues, the returns could be huge. We’re looking at 5-10x moves just to break into large-cap land!
Let’s dive into this week’s report and see what’s happening in some of the hottest stocks in the Minor Leagues.
The Stock Market Peaked In February
[PLUS] Weekly Momentum Report & Takeaways
From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza
Check out this week’s Momentum Report, our weekly summation of all the major indexes at a Macro, International, Sector, and Industry Group level.
By analyzing the short-term data in these reports, we get a more tactical view of the current state of markets. This information then helps us put near-term developments into the context of the big picture and provides insights regarding the structural trends at play.
Let’s jump right into it with some of the major takeaways from this week’s report:
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[PLUS] Weekly Top 10 Report
From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza
Our Top 10 report was just published. In this weekly note, we highlight 10 of the most important charts or themes we’re currently seeing in asset classes around the world.
From Failed Moves Come Fast Moves
Markets have been unequivocally choppy. Breakouts are failing, new highs are dwindling, and it’s becoming more challenging to find trending opportunities. Last week, we discussed how Semiconductors failed to breakout, and asked whether its peer industries would follow suit. Well, we have our answer now… One of the strongest industry groups in the last two months, Internet, just printed a failed breakout at its February highs. Software looks frighteningly similar.
Digging into some of the components, Amazon, the largest weighting of the group, is in the process of retesting its September 2020 highs of 3550. And to compare the industry group to one of its peers, Semiconductors have also put in a failed breakout.
When even the leaders of the market can’t catch a sustained bid and hold new highs, we’re usually in an environment where stocks in general are struggling. And they are. If we’re below 243 the risk is in favor of the bears and we could bet on a quick move back toward the year-to-date pivot lows of 208. Although, we have to be open to the fact bulls could quickly repair this damage. If we’re above those February highs we can NOT be short.
Saturday Morning Chartoons: Seasonal Headwinds
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.
Intermarket Insights: Relative Trend Review
From the desk of Steven Strazza @Sstrazza and Grant Hawkridge @granthawkridge
One of the main themes we discussed in the Q3 Playbook we published last week is the lack of any directional bias for equities on a relative basis.
We’ve been obnoxious about the trendless environment for equities on an absolute basis… and now we’re noticing a lot of the same play out in many of the relative trends we monitor.
When there is no edge on absolute terms, we can at least try and generate alpha by taking advantage of relative trends through pair trades.
But, right now there’s really nothing out there giving us an opportunity to do so. This is about as rough of an environment for money managers as you’ll find.
All we see is sideways, sloppy, range-bound action… Standard year-two stuff!
To illustrate what we mean, let’s take a look at each large-cap sector SPDR relative to the S&P.
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