Today’s Hot List is a short one.

Patrick S. Barrett, executive vice-president and CFO of OceanFirst Financial Corp $OCFC, revealed a purchase of approximately 10,500 shares in his own stock.

The largest insider buy on today’s list is yet another Form 4 filing by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway $BRK.A.

Buffett just revealed an additional purchase in Occidental Petroleum $OXY, as he continues to build his position in the energy stock.

Is the market out of the woods yet? No.

Is there a change in trend with the most recent bounce bank in the indices? No.

Are some areas of the market doing better than others? Yes.

Are we here to discuss one such sector today? You bet we are!

We've been pounding the table about the strength that we've been noticing in the Auto space for over a month now. With that trend becoming more and more clear, we have a few more names joining the leaders. The Auto sector is exhibiting strengths that cannot and should not be ignored. Read on to know more!

First up, let's take a look at the index chart and focus on the levels here. 10,400 has acted as a crucial zone of support during the past five months of whipsaw moves in the market. The index continued to hold on to these levels even as other sectors were giving up on their floors without a fight. That was our first sign of relative strength.

The index has since bounced back and is currently trading close to 11,580. The next level to track here is the 2018 high level near 12,130. It will be quite interesting to see how the price...

From the desk of Steve Strazza @sstrazza

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...

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 June 24, 2022. This report is published bi-weekly and rotated 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...

Last week the US Healthcare Sector hit new multi-year highs relative to the S&P500.

The Relative Strength has already been there under the surface.

And when you look at Healthcare on an absolute basis you can see the sideways digestion of prior gains during a period where most stocks and indexes were falling:

The largest insider transaction on today’s list is a Form 4 filing by Nimish P. Shah, who reported a purchase of roughly $5.1 million of Tricida $TCDA.

Thomas Meth, the president of Enviva $EVA, reported a purchase of 8,600 shares, equivalent to $505,508 worth of stock.

Nifty Auto has been attracting all the attention with the strength that it is displaying. Today we're here to share a long idea from the same sector.

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.

Here’s this week’s list:

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We debuted a new scan recently which goes by the name- All Star Momentum.

All Star Momentum is a brand new scan that guides us towards the very best stocks in the market. We have incorporated our stock universe of Nifty 500 as the base this time around. Among the 500 stocks that we follow, this scan will pump out names that are most likely to outperform the market.

The largest insider buy on today’s list is a Form 4 filing by Turtle Creek Asset Management, which revealed a 496,000-share purchase of JELD-WEN Holding $JELD.

In his latest Form 4, the chairman and CEO of Enviva $EVA revealed a purchase of approximately $1 million in the lumber and wood company.

Monday night we held our June Monthly Conference Call, which Premium Members can access and rewatch here.

In this post, we’ll do our best to summarize it by highlighting five of the most important charts and/or themes we covered, along with commentary on each.

Let’s get right into it!