In a market environment where Financials and Natural Resources have become leadership groups, how do we not have a conversation about Canada? Taking that one step further, we need to talk about how any investor, whether living in Canada or not, can take advantage of a potential structural swing in the trend for Canadian Equities.

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

In our continued effort to identify individual equities that fit within our larger Macro thesis, we recently rolled out our latest bottoms-up scan: "The Minor Leaguers."

We write a post every other week where we outline some of our favorite setups from this universe of stocks.

We've already had some great trades come out of this column and couldn't be happier about the early feedback.

Moving forward, we'll be rotating this column with "Under The Hood" each week.

In order to make it onto our Minor League list, you must have a market cap between $1 and $2B. There are also price and liquidity filters.

Then, we simply sort the stocks by their percentage from new highs. Easy done.

We have been discussing how the market has been moving in a sideways range for almost two months now. With a trading range comes a lot of confusion. The sharp decline in the market today took the index towards the lower end of its trading range.

Should we be worried about the ensuing move? Let's find out.

Dow Theory is one of my favorite topics. It's fascinating how much these lessons from over 130 years ago still help in today's times.

Think about this, we're using Charlie Dow's principles to analyze assets that never even existed back then. The key to remember here is that we don't change. Humans are the constant in this equation. And that's what we're analyzing, at the end of the day: Human behavior.

This week we're looking at a long setup in the Chemicals sector. When more analysis processes point in the same direction, that direction becomes hard to ignore.

We have one such stock for this week's actionable idea.

We have some good news! We are debuting another new scan for Premium Members of All Star Charts India. As we go forward, we will introduce several new features for our members, but for now, the second scan has just dropped!

Introducing the new scan- All Star Momentum.

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

While we go through our lists of sectors and stocks on a weekly basis, we thought of launching a product that would highlight the names that are the strongest performers in our universe and those that are primed for an explosive move.

Just like The Outperformers scan, this is a list of stocks belonging to the sectors that display relative strength in the market at any given point in time. Since sector rotation is the lifeblood of a bull market, we will be ahead of the curve before the gears keep shifting.

Two weeks back we had noticed IT putting its head again from underground and shared some actionable ideas. As the market progresses, we're noticing new names joining this list and thought it would be nice to have a follow-up post for the same.

Let's see what these stocks are indicating for the weeks and months ahead.

HCL Tech has now joined the other stocks in this sector as it attempts to move past its overhead supply zone of 1,024. Retreating from the same level twice in the recent past, we might see a follow-through this time around as the tailwinds favouring IT could favour this particular stock as well. The indicator is attempting to move back into the strong zone.

We are bullish above the level of 1,024 with a target near 1,425.

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From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza and Ian Culley @IanCulley.

We held our April Monthly Strategy Session Thursday night which Premium Members can access and rewatch here.

For these calls, we really take a step back and put things in the context of their structural trends by focusing only on Monthly charts. This is easily one of our most valuable exercises.

In this post, we’ll provide a summary of the call by highlighting three of the most important charts and topics we covered along with commentary on each.

Let’s dive into it.

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza.

Welcome back to our “latest Under The Hood” column for the week ended April 2, 2021. As a reminder, this column will be published bi-weekly moving forward, and rotated on-and-off with our new Minor Leaguers column.

In this column, we 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.

Signals act as indicators for what's to come or what we can expect. If you look closely, there are several signals that can be picked up from the market in order to stay ahead of the curve. A lot of analysis goes into arriving at the bottom of the funnel that is stock selection.

While the bigger trends are in place and their relative analysis helps us understand their strength and weaknesses, there are certain signals that can be picked up on a regular trading day as well.

This week we're looking at a long setup in the Metal sector. Several stocks in this sector are performing well with our Outperformers scan throwing up another popular name last week.

Early in February, we had published a post discussing the Adani Group and its targets as well as risk management levels.

Seeing as this particular solar system is completing rotations and revolutions rather quickly, we thought it would be a good idea to revisit these stocks and track the updated levels for the weeks and months ahead.

Our equally weighted custom Adani Group Index has shown no sign of slowing down. The bullish trend is strongly in place and seems well on its way to the next higher level.

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Now let’s take a look at individual stocks and where they stand at present.