This is the video recording of the July 19, 2023, Hot Corner Insider Weekly Strategy Session.

Today’s Hot Corner list is a short one.

EcoR1 Capital Fund filed a 13G for Apellis Pharmaceuticals Inc $APLS revealing an initial stake of 5.40%.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

All the indices have been on fire.

Earnings are coming up.

We'll see if the bar is low for them and they jump that hurdle or not.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

Up and away we go, with new highs all around.

As the saying goes, we're overbought, but we can stay this way for some time.

Today’s Hot Corner list is a short one.

Director John D. Harkey, Jr. revealed a purchase of 100,000 shares, equivalent to $852,000, in Lions Gate Entertainment Corp $LGF.B.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

It's another new day, and maybe more new highs.

It's getting harder to find longs.

We do get opportunities, but it's more difficult with things stretched like this.

This is the video recording of the July 2023 Mid-month Conference Call.

From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

Welcome to The Minor Leaguers.

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 Kimmy Sokoloff

It was kind of a range-bound day, though some names had nice movement.

$IWM and $QQQ led the way.

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.

Today’s Hot Corner list is a short one.

The CEO of Calavo Growers $CVGW reported a purchase of 75,000 shares, equivalent to $2,275,500.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

We saw decent reversals in a lot of names on Friday. I would think it was warranted, as a lot of names are extended.

I'll watch $SPY to see if it stays below the 449.60 level.