Expert technical analysis of financial markets by JC Parets
From the Desk of Steve Strazza and Alfonso Depablos
The largest insider buy on today’s list comes in a Form 4 filing by Timothy C. Wentworth, CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance $WBA.
Wentworth reported a purchase of 10,000 WBA shares, equivalent to $242,220.
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.
From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza.
Welcome back to Under the Hood, where we’ll cover all the action for the week ended January 5, 2024. This report is published bi-weekly, in rotation with The Minor Leaguers.
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.
Click here 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.
From the Desk of Steve Strazza and Alfonso Depablos
The largest insider buy on today’s list comes in a Form 4 filing by Broadwood Partners LP.
The investment firm reported a purchase of roughly $6.4 million in STAAR Surgical Company $STAA.
From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza
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.
From the Desk of Steve Strazza and Alfonso Depablos
The only transaction on today’s list comes in a 13G filed by Point72 Asset Management.
The hedge fund revealed an initial stake of 5.40% in C4 Therapeutics Inc $CCCC.
This is the video recording of the January 3, 2024, Hot Corner Insider Weekly Strategy Session.
From the Desk of Steve Strazza and Alfonso Depablos
The only transaction on today’s list comes in a 13G filed by Riposte Capital.
The firm increased its stake in SilverBow Resources $SBOW from 7.75% to 9.70%.
