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RPP Report: Review. Preview. Profit. (11-20-2020)

November 23, 2020 by Louis Sykes

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza and Louis Sykes @haumicharts

At the beginning of each week, we publish performance tables for a variety of different asset classes and categories along with commentary on each.

Looking at the past helps put the future into context. In this post, we review the relative strength trends at play and preview some of the things we’re watching in order to profit in the weeks and months ahead.

Last week, we mentioned we were no longer in a split market, but rather in an environment supported by strong internals and an aggressive appetite for risk assets.

This week, we’re preaching much of the same.

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Semiconductors Hit New Highs Relative To Other Stocks & Tech Specifically

November 23, 2020 by JC

If Semi’s are leading, how bad could things be for the stock market?

As you can see in this chart below, not only are Semiconductors outperforming the broader markets, but they are also breaking out relative to Technology stocks as a group.

This is the definition of Relative Strength: [Read more…]

Under The Hood (11-20-2020)

November 22, 2020 by Steve Strazza

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza.

Welcome to our “Under The Hood” column for the week ending November 20, 2020.

What we do 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.

Whether we’re measuring increasing interest based on large institutional purchases, unusual options activity, or simply our proprietary lists of trending tickers… there is a lot of overlap.

The bottom line is there are a million ways to skin this cat. Relying on our entire arsenal of data makes us confident that we’re producing the best list each week and gives us more optionality in terms of finding the most favorable trade setups for our clients.

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Rotation Into Small-caps & Mid-caps

November 21, 2020 by JC

Remember when small and mid-Caps were the laggards?

Yea good times right?

Well, no mas my friends!

In this chart you can see the Large-cap growth stocks grouped to the upper left while the Small, Mids & Micro-caps are to the lower right.
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[Options] These Semis Keep on Truckin’

November 18, 2020 by Sean McLaughlin

No, not those semis! Semiconductors!

We’re seeing more and more long-term breakouts from monster bases and increasing relative strength across the entire sector.

Case in point, here’s a chart of KLA Corp $KLAC: [Read more…]

[Premium] 2-to-100 Club (11-18-2020)

November 18, 2020 by Steve Strazza

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

Welcome to the 2 to 100 Club.

Something we’ve been working on internally this year is using various bottoms-up tools and scans to complement our top-down approach. One way we’re doing this is by identifying 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, and Salesforce, to a myriad of others… all 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 will notice we are 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 52-week highs. This allows the cream of these strongest groups to rise to the top and makes our job easier to identify technical breakouts in the top-performing stocks.

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Mystery Chart (11-17-2020)

November 17, 2020 by Steve Strazza

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

New Mystery Chart!

For those new to this exercise, we take a chart of interest and remove the x/y-axes and any other labels that would help identify it. The chart can be any security in any asset class on any timeframe on an absolute or relative basis. Maybe it’s a custom index or inverted, who knows!

We do all this to put aside the biases we have associated with this specific security/the market and come to a conclusion based solely on price.

You can guess what it is if you must, but the real value comes from sharing what you would do right now. Buy, Sell, or Do Nothing?

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