It’s the weekly currency edition of What the FICC?
Today we’re turning our attention to key commodity currencies for insight into the US dollar’s next directional move.
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Expert technical analysis of financial markets by JC Parets
by Ian Culley
It’s the weekly currency edition of What the FICC?
Today we’re turning our attention to key commodity currencies for insight into the US dollar’s next directional move.
Check it out!
From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza
While there have been some real winners during the recent rally, the run off the lows from this fall has also left many stocks behind.
Value stocks, cyclicals, and blue-chip names have prospered for the past two months, as groups like financials and industrials have been the latest beneficiaries of sector rotation.
At the same time, mega-cap technology and the most-speculative growth areas of the market have continued to show relative weakness.
To be clear, it’s not like these stocks have been crashing lower while the rest of the market rallies. Of course, many have participated in the upside action.
But, on balance, the performance from growth stocks has been lackluster.
by Ian Culley
From the Desk of Ian Culley @IanCulley
The 2020 V-shaped recovery has warped investors’ brains.
But this is nothing more than recency bias. In reality, bottoms are a process, not an event.
Don’t fall victim to what’s easy or comfortable. Instead, let’s focus on the facts.
Markets continue to send mixed signals, testing the resolve of even the most disciplined investor. Rather than fight the trend or trendless nature of the markets, I prefer to identify evidence that supports the next directional move.
And there’s one insightful chart atop my deck regarding the direction of the US dollar.
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 the stock is about to move in their direction and make them a pretty penny.
Then we flip through our list of stocks flashing unusual activity and pick the best setups using many of the same technical filters we do for our other scans.
And, just like that, we’ll follow the money flow and fatten our own pockets along with some of the world’s most powerful financial institutions.
by Ian Culley
From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza.
Welcome back to our latest Under The Hood column where we’ll cover all the action for the week ended November 25, 2022. This report is published bi-weekly and rotated on-and-off with our Minor Leaguers column.
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.
Watch this video for a behind the scenes look at our process.
Whether we’re measuring increasing interest based on large institutional purchases, unusual options activity, or simply our proprietary lists of trending tickers, there’s a lot of overlap.
by JC
Are you noticing?
More stocks are working to the upside.
More of our upside objectives are getting achieved.
Many of our shorts never even get triggered.
A lot of breakouts are holding.
What type of market environment would you describe that as?
Well, we’re seeing the most stocks on the NYSE above their 200 day moving average since March.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average just went out at new 6-month highs.
So did the S&P Financials Index.
None of these strike me as characteristics of downtrends. [Read more…]
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.