3 Top-Rated Pullbacks for PowerRatings Traders: SEE, YHOO, SYMC

The market remains overbought, with given the strength in Asian and Europe overnight, further upside progress on Monday should not surprise PowerRatings traders.

As of the Friday close, 8 out of the top 25 PowerRatings stocks have PowerRatings of 10 — our highest stock rating. We found in our research on short term stock price behavior that stocks with PowerRatings of 10 have outperformed the average stock by a margin of more than 14 to 1.

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Among the top-rated stocks in today’s roster are stocks like Sealed Air Corporation
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. SEE (below) has closed lower for the past three consecutive trading sessions and has seen its 2-period RSI plunge from more than 97 to less than 2 over the past five days.

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But some of the better, more liquid opportunities for high probability short term PowerRatings traders may lie in the large number of 9-rated stocks in our Top 25. 9-rated stocks have performed only slightly less impressively as 10-rated stocks, outperforming the average stock by a margin of more than 9 to 1.

These stocks include a number of well-known names such as Yahoo! Inc.
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, which has closed lower for three days in a row, with each of those days featuring 2-period RSIs of less than 7.

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Yahoo’s close on Friday was its lowest close in a month. Still trading above its 200-day moving average, the stock YHOO hasn’t been this oversold since early July, shortly before the stock began its run from 14.50 to more than 17.

9-rated Symantec Corporation
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bounced on Friday, but still remained under significant selling pressure. Its 2-period RSI bouncing from less than 2 to more than 12, any return of sellers that does not push the stock below its 200-day moving average may represent an opportunity in the short term.

SYMC Chart

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David Penn is Editor in Chief at TradingMarkets.com.