The largest insider buy on today’s list is a Form 4 filing by the president and CEO of TransUnion $TRU, who revealed a purchase of $1.9 million in the credit reporting agency.

The chief commercial officer of First Solar $FSLR reported a purchase of 9,946 shares, worth roughly $1 million in the solar panel manufacturer.

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:

...

This is the video recording of our August 5, 2022, Inside Scoop Weekly Strategy Session.

At the beginning of every month, we tune out all the market noise and zoom out. We zoom out, because these calls that are held in the first week of the month, focus on monthly charts. So we're basically looking at long-term trends.

Our Monthly Strategy Session Call concluded early this week. Premium members can access the call recording here.

For non-premium members, don't worry- we haven't forgotten about you! You can check out our posts highlighting the top 3 charts that month, in posts like these!

Win-win?

Let's get right into it, shall we?

The most significant insider transaction on today’s list is a Form 4 filing for Pinterest $PINS.

We wrote about PINS on July 15, when Elliott Management announced a large activist stake.

We debuted a new scan recently- The Outperformers.

The Outperformers is our newest scan that pinpoints the very best stocks in the market. It’s the fastest, easiest way to find quality names that are primed for major moves.

The goal is that as the market rally progresses, the sector rotation within the market will reflect in this scan. So while our Top/Down Analysis helps us with the broader view of the market, this Bottom/Up scan makes sure that we catch the slightest change in sentiment.

Insiders are finally buying into the summer rally. We haven’t seen this much action on our Hot List in months!

The largest insider transaction on today’s list is a Form 4 filing by the Chairman and CEO of American Assets Trust $AAT, with a roughly $1 million purchase.

There she goes!

Apple just went out at new all-time highs relative to the S&P500.

I think about it like this: Should we expect Tech stocks to underperform if the biggest one of them all is making new all-time relative highs?

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.

Some of the best performers in recent decades – stocks like Priceline, Amazon, Netflix, Salesforce, and myriad others – would have been on this list at some point during their journey...

From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

We held our August Monthly Strategy Session Monday night. Premium Members can access and re-watch it here.

Non-members can get a quick recap of the call simply by reading this post each month.

By focusing on long-term, monthly charts, the idea is to take a step back and put things into the context of their structural trends.

This is easily one of our most valuable exercises as it forces us to put aside the day-to-day noise and simply examine markets from a “big-picture” point of view.

With that as our backdrop, let’s dive right in and discuss three of the most important charts and/or themes from this month’s call.

When the worst stocks on the planet can't go down any more, that's usually good information.

We saw a lot of Small-cap Growth, Arkk Funds, Biotech, Chinese Internet and many of those other "Growthy" areas bottom out this Spring, and some of the last ones in June.

At the Mega-cap level, nothing caused more shareholder wealth destruction than Facebook, down 60% from its highs less than a year ago.

But look where prices stopped falling:

B. Riley Financial $RILY Director Randall Paulson reported another purchase of stock in the asset manager. His last purchase was in early May.