This pick list highlights constituents of the Morningstar US Large Cap Index that we believe offer investors the best risk-adjusted return prospects. Stocks of large-cap companies where neither growth nor value characteristics predominate. Stocks in the top 70% of the capitalization of the U.S. equity market are defined as large cap.

West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is around $61/barrel after testing the lows earlier this week from April 9, when markets were in panic mode. WTI dropped by 19% from a closing high of $71.70 on April 2, and 26% from its early 2025 high at $78.80. Crude hit $55 in April, its lowest price since early 2021 (when it was recovering from the pandemic). WTI broke key chart support from its multi-year trading range in the $64-$66 region. That area needs to be recovered, or the market is susceptible to further losses. WTI could be tracing out a double bottom and needs to break above $65 to complete the pattern. Crude was very oversold and potentially is setting up some bullish momentum divergences. The Commitment of Traders (COT) data remains bullish, and seasonality remains bullish until September. We believe the SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) have completed a five-wave, parabolic, blow-off top, and could see decent downside in the months to come. The advance from April 9 until 21 was quite steep, reminiscent of wave five in an asymptotic move. The market saw an ugly bearish cloud-cover reversal the next day on massive volume, common after a parabolic move. It looks like GLD benefited from a weak U.S. Dollar Index that started in January. It appears the greenback has traced out a five-wave decline and is close to tracing out a false breakdown. In addition, the COT data for the dollar is bullish, which has been a reliable indicator. It's difficult to say how far GLD will drop, but we look for a decline to at least the $257-$275 region, where there is a cluster of chart support. (Mark Arbeter, CMT)

General Dynamics is a defense contractor with leading market positions in business aviation and aircraft services, land and amphibious combat systems, mission-critical information systems and technologies, and shipbuilding and marine systems. Headquartered in Reston, VA, the company has about 100,000 employees. Its shares are a component of the S&P 500.

Another week and another (fourth-consecutive) set of positive insider-sentiment data from Vickers Stock Research. Let's jump right in, looking at exchange data. Vickers' NYSE One-Week Sell/Buy Ratio is currently 1.44 on a scale where any result below 2.00 is bullish. This ratio has been bullish for four weeks in a row. The ongoing strength in the one-week data has now also pushed Vickers' longer-term (eight-week) sentiment reading into bullish territory. Indeed, the NYSE Eight-Week Sell/Buy Ratio is now bullish at 1.83. Turning to the Nasdaq, the One-Week Sell/Buy Ratio is essentially flat with last week at 2.67, which is just into the neutral zone (which runs from 2.00 to 6.00). Still, the short-term Nasdaq reading has been generally improving for multiple weeks and has led the Nasdaq Eight-Week Sell/Buy Ratio (currently 2.98) on a trend of improvement that is now 10 weeks in duration. Putting this all together, Vickers Total (all exchanges) One-Week Sell/Buy Ratio is now 2.05 (oh-so-close to bullish) and the Total Eight-Week Sell/Buy Ratio is now 2.34 (neutral but having improved for 10 consecutive weeks). When this run of bullish data began back on April 7, the S&P 500 was at 5062. On Friday, it closed at 5686, almost 12% higher. On a sector basis, insider buying narrowly exceeded selling in Consumer Discretionary last week, with shares valued at $6.44 million bought versus $6.42 million sold. Buying also outpaced selling in Energy -- although volume was light, with less than $1 million shares bought during the period. Selling was the greatest in the Financial sector over the last week, with shares valued at $73 million sold versus less than $4 million bought. Selling was also notable in Healthcare, Industrials, Real Estate, and Information Technology. This week, analysts at Vickers highlighted insider transactions of interest at Molina Healthcare Inc. (NYSE: MOH) and BlackRock Inc. (NYSE: BLK).