Thursday’s Top Names
An impressive performance from the opening bell
for the tech dominated the Nasdaq Composite. The key semiconductor sector
benefited from a pre-market comment from the Street in which price targets were
raised for several semi equipment stocks. The larger-cap Dow and S&P 500 did
not bolt out of the starting gate and failed to match the Nasdaq in percentage
gains and remain 2% and 1.3%, respectively below their recovery highs.
Overall there were some nice moves in the three major indices.
Strong Sectors: semi, biotech, oil
service, natural gas, retail, storage/disk drive, network, wireless, telecom,
banking
Weak Sectors: airline, gold, home improve
retail
Thursday’s
stocks to watch:
3 Month RS of 80 and higher and close in top
part of range
Name |
Symbol |
Relative Strength |
Price |
Average Volume |
Today’s Volume |
Storage Technology |
( STK | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) |
93 | 19.91 | 682,400 | 980,100 |
Stmicroelectronics | ( STM | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) |
89 | 23.37 | 2,199,600 | 2,455,900 |
Tecketmaster | ( TMCS | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) |
93 | 26.14 | 978,800 | 1,107,311 |
Vodoaphone | ( VOD | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) |
84 | 19.15 | 3,222,100 | 6,105,100 |
3 Month RS of 30 or lower
and close in bottom part of range
Company Name |
Symbol |
Relative Strength |
Price |
Average Volume |
Today’s Volume |
Deluxe | ( DLX | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) |
30 | 42.48 | 1,429,900 | 712,500 |
Eastman Chemical | ( EMN | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) |
18 | 35.96 | 622,000 | 3,277,100 |
L-3 Communications |
[LLL|LLL} | 17 | 43.21 | 1,992,200 | 1,743,200 |
Lowes | ( LOW | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) |
17 | 37.90 | 5,816,900 | 12,188,500 |
3 Month RS of 80 and
higher with volume surge in last hour
Company Name |
Symbol |
Relative Strength |
Price |
Average Volume |
Today’s Volume |
American Power Conversion | ( APCC | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) |
92 | 15.40 | 1,389,500 | 1,845,199 |
Boston Scientific | ( BSX | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) |
87 | 40.65 | 2,791,400 | 2,200,600 |
Engineered Support Systems | ( EASI | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) |
95 | 35.19 | 310,500 | 256,000 |
Micro Strategy | ( MSTR | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) |
96 | 17.33 | 365,900 | 573,314 |
3 Month RS of 30 and lower
with volume surge in last hour
NONE
Stocks in Slim Jims
High RS at
or near high
Company Name |
Symbol |
Relative Strength |
Price |
Average Volume |
Today’s Volume |
Amazon.com | ( AMZN | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) |
91 | 22.90 | 9,271,700 | 13,349,146 |
BMC Software | ( BMC | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) |
87 | 17.50 | 1,887,100 | 1,896,700 |
Expedia | ( EXPE | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) |
90 | 73.69 | 2,649,800 | 2,752,653 |
Genesis Microchip | ( GNSS | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) |
98 | 18.00 | 2,385,600 | 3,070,672 |
Low RS at
or near low
Company Name |
Symbol |
Relative Strength |
Price |
Average Volume |
Today’s Volume |
MGM Mirage | ( MGG | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) |
28 | 32.00 | 1,294,400 | 1,679,700 |
Best of luck with your trading Monday. Please
use protective stops on trades.