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Last night was our LIVE Monthly Charts Strategy Session for Premium Members of Allstarcharts.

This is where we go over everything happening in the current markets.

The chart of the S&P500 is a great representation of the circumstances right now.

Stocks are correcting and stuck in a range during a perfectly normal time to be digesting their historic gains.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

It's slim pickings with stock selection. Not a ton of things looking great right now.

The indices are pulling in, and I'm watching the eight-day moving average on $SPY at 447.48.

This is the video recording of our September 5th Monthly Charts Live Strategy Session

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

The market was pretty much range-bound most of the day.

There were nice opportunities in certain stocks.

The largest insider transaction on today’s list comes in a Form 4 filed by Sylebra Capital Ltd, which revealed a purchase of $8 million in Impinj Inc $PI.

The hedge fund now owns 3,869,196 shares, representing an ownership stake of roughly 14%.

That was just the 2nd highest weekly close in the entire history of the Technology Index. It was also the 2nd highest monthly close ever.

So the question becomes: Is this just a retest of resistance and there's still a ton of overhead supply for demand to absorb?

Or is a breakout coming soon?

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

It's another short week.

And futures are a bit lower...

From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza.

Welcome back to Under the Hood, where we'll cover all the action for the week ended August 31, 2023. This report is published bi-weekly and rotated with The Minor Leaguers.

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.

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.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

Happy Labor Day weekend!

The indices hit resistance and pulled in.

I would expect next week to be light trading as well.

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

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:

Oil prices just went out at their highest monthly close since last October. That was almost a year ago.

The trend for Crude Oil has turned up.

Here's all that former resistance from 2018 turning into support more recently: