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Learn about and compare our various stock lists.
Every day, the Fundstrat Direct team provides evidence-based investment research and insights that educate everyday investors like you on how to think about the markets and generate investment ideas that deliver outperformance. But often, what you need are ideas that are immediately actionable.
That's where our stock lists come in. Each of our stock lists deliver clear specifics about where the research heads of Fundstrat Direct think the opportunities are, all based on the non-emotional, evidence-based research they deliver to institutional investors – and esteemed members like you.
Sector Allocation
Fundstrat Direct Team
The Sector Allocation strategy provides a disciplined, yet flexible, approach to seeking
outperformance. The strategy can help investors with both longer-term and shorter term strategies.
In addition, investors can use the Sector Allocation list to implement a strategy primarily
based on sector ETFs, or to allocate stock holdings based on sector weightings recommendations.
The stock list represents a merging of longer-term sector perspectives with short-term technical
dynamics, appropriate for both active and passive investment methodologies.
Upticks Strategy
Mark L. Newton, CMT AC
Head of Technical Strategy
Upticks is a 100% technical analysis-derived list of stocks from within the ranks of the S&P 500,
selected by Head of Technical Strategy Mark Newton.
It represents the distillation of Newton's intermediate-term views on the market,
incorporating a range of technical indicators including sentiment, seasonality, cycles, breadth, and
much more.
As with our other stock lists, Upticks does not provide advice regarding entry and exit points.
However, it does provide Newton's views on support and resistance to help investors make their own
decisions.
Fundstrat Large-Cap Core List / Fundstrat SMID-Cap Core List
Fundstrat Direct Team
Actionable investment ideas are embedded in every research note that we publish. With these lists,
we bring together those ideas that Head of Research Tom Lee's data-driven macroeconomic research has
identified as having the best reward-risk potential over the long-term. We have separated those
ideas into large-cap and smid-cap (small- and mid-cap) lists.
These lists represent the investment universe from which our Top and Bottom ideas are selected. Each
list is built using Fundstrat’s evidence-based research methodology.
With input from Head of Technical Analysis Mark Newton, the names on each core list are ranked on an
approximately monthly basis to assess for timeliness – potential for short-term overperformance
relative to the benchmark. "Top Ideas" are those judged to have the highest likelihood of
overperformance over at least a one-month timeframe. "Bottom Ideas" are those viewed as having the
lowest likelihood of overperformance (in other words, the highest likelihood of underperformance) in
the next month.
Note that Top Ideas and Bottom Ideas are both viewed favorably over the long-term. These sub-lists
are for those with a tactical focus, such as those deciding where to allocate new money (Top Ideas)
or which existing positions to sell to raise cash (Bottom Ideas).