From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

The market was full speed ahead today, and this week looks like just a blip on the chart.

At the rate we're going we can see 421 on $SPY.

I was in New York City most of the week for the annual CMT Symposium.

On Wednesday afternoon I dropped by Fox Business to chat with Liz Claman about the ongoing bull market that is now on Month #11.

My point in the hit was that a lot of the focus seems to be on these tiny little irrelevant banks disappearing, instead of actual important companies with real market caps.

Just to put things in perspective, First Republic is worth less than a billion dollars. So that and zero may as well be the same thing.

Meanwhile, Microsoft Wednesday was up over $140 Billion in market cap overnight.

So if that's the case, why should anyone care about First Republic?

As long as the market doesn't care, I definitely don't.

Here's the interview in full:

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

As far as earnings go, $AMZN and $GOOGL for Big Tech were the weak links.

$QQQ is almost at its peak price.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

That was a stick save by $META, and now we have $AMZN tonight.

$QQQ came back above the 316 level I've been talking about inside the live trading room.

The largest insider buy on today’s list comes in a Form 4 filing by Enphase Energy $ENPH director T.J. Rodgers.

Rodgers, who is the founder of Cypress Semiconductor and also holds a patent for a wine-making press, reported a purchase of roughly $5 million of ENPH.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

If you look under the hood, overall this market is weak.

Without Big Tech, there really isn't too much to talk about, except maybe commodities.

From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

Welcome to the 2 to 100 Club.

As many of you know, something we've been working on internally is using various bottom-up tools and scans to complement our top-down approach. It's really been working for us!

One way we're doing this is by identifying the strongest growth stocks as they climb the market-cap ladder from small- to mid- to large- and, ultimately, to mega-cap status (over $200B).

Once they graduate from small-cap to mid-cap status (over $2B), they come on our radar. Likewise, when they surpass the roughly $30B mark, they roll off our list.

But the scan doesn't just end there.

We only want to look at the strongest growth industries in the market, as that is typically where these potential 50-baggers come from.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

Every day last week the market would dip in the morning and rally in the afternoon.

This week has been the opposite: We've been grinding lower in the afternoons.

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

I'm in New York City along with the rest of the All Star Charts team for the annual CMT symposium this week, so there's no Inside Scoop Weekly Strategy Session today.

We'll be back with our regular schedule next week.

For today, we figured we'd do a quick post discussing some of the macro themes we're watching right now, as well as a trade idea in one of our favorite names.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

Two heavyweights reported earnings yesterday and, as of now, $MSFT came out on top.

Now lets see if it holds on to the gains. 

The largest insider buy on today’s list comes in a Form 4 filing by Texas Capital Bancshares $TCBI director Robert W. Stallings.

Stallings reported a purchase of roughly $1 million of TCBI stock.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

Today was the first real breakdown for the indices, with $IWM leading the way.

For $SPY and $QQQ it was the first real break below their respective 21-day moving averages.