From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

The indices were pretty whippy yesterday.

I'd expect the same today until debt ceiling negotiations are completed.

The Technology Index made another new 52-week high on Monday.

This is becoming a habit.

Apple carries a huge weighting in that Index.

So as some people get distracted with how Apple's $2.75 Trillion market cap is now bigger than the entire Russell2000 Index, I'm more interested in how quickly Apple can get to $5 Trillion.

I think it can happen pretty soon.

Look at these massive moves in market cap that can happen in a relative short period of time.

From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

Welcome to our latest Minor Leaguers report.

We've had some great trades come out of this small-cap-focused column since we launched it back in 2020 and started rotating it with our flagship bottom-up scan, Under the Hood.

For the first year or so, we focused only on Russell 2000 stocks with a market cap between $1 and $2B.

That was fun, but we wanted to branch out a bit and allow some new stocks to find their way onto our list.

We expanded our universe to include some mid-caps.

To make the cut for our Minor Leaguers list, a company must have a market cap between $1 and $4B.

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.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

The market was all over the place today.

Look, we're waiting for the debt ceiling negotiations to end before the market makes its next move.

That's the deal... or no deal.

The largest insider buy on today’s list comes in a Form 4 filing by the president of Gen Digital Inc $GEN, Ondrej Vlcek.

Vlcek revealed a purchase of 300,000 shares, equivalent to $4.7 million.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

We're still waiting on debt ceiling negotiations.

The indices pulled back on Friday.

Some things are changing.

Have you noticed?

Let's keep something in mind. During healthy market environments, you historically see correlations falling.

It's when volatility spikes in bear markets that correlations all go to 1.

So are these recent divergences just further evidence that this is a strong market for stocks?

The breadth expansion and sector rotation we keep seeing certainly points to that.

So let's take a look.

I've been at this for 20 years. I've seen a lot of uptrends and bull markets in my day. I've studied many more that came before me.

Along the way, do you know what you'll find a lot of in bull markets?

New 52-week highs.

From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza and Alfonso Depablos @AlfCharts

Our Hall of Famers list is composed of the 150 largest US-based stocks.

These stocks range from the mega-cap growth behemoths like Apple and Microsoft – with market caps in excess of $2T – to some of the new-age large-cap disruptors such as Moderna, Square, and Snap.

It has all the big names and more.

It doesn’t include ADRs or any stock not domiciled in the US. But don’t worry; we developed a separate universe for that. You can click here to check it out.

The Hall of Famers is simple.

We take our list of 150 names and then apply our technical filters so the strongest stocks with the most momentum rise to the top.

Let’s dive right in and check out what these big boys are up to.

Here’s this week’s list:

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

The morning session turned into a consolidation after the recent breakout in $SPY.

Powell spoke at 11:00 a.m. ET, so stocks were in wait-and-see mode.

Uncle Warren strikes again…

Berkshire Hathaway $BRK.A has filed another Form 4 for Occidental Petroleum $OXY, this time revealing a purchase worth $201 million.