PowerRatings Round Up: AIRM, BTH, SIRO
Stocks typically rally into three-day weekends such as the Memorial Day weekend now behind us. However, profit-taking was how most traders spent the final full trading week of May, with the S&P 500 and Dow industrials both finishing lower for four days in a row.
Continued selling only has created greater opportunities for traders buying stocks on pullback. Looking at some of the high PowerRatings stocks I have underscored in recent columns, I see that most have continued to pull back, especially stocks like Hansen Natural Corporation
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Other stocks, 3Par Inc.
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Here are the stocks that continue to earn high PowerRatings in the short term and, as such, should represent potential opportunities for reversals to the upside over the next few days.
Air Methods Corporation
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PowerRating). PowerRating of 9. This stock has closed down for five consecutive trading days above the 200-day moving average. Intraday strength helped boost the stock’s 2-period RSI from less than 6 to more than 19 on Friday.
Blyth Inc.
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PowerRating). PowerRating of 9. Closing lower for the past four trading days, BTH reached its most oversold levels in more than a month on Friday, earning a 2-period RSI of less than 5.
Sirona Dental Systems
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PowerRating) PowerRating of 9. SIRO has closed lower for three consecutive days, making its lowest closing low in more than 12 days. The stock also has a 2-period RSI of less than 6, its lowest level since the stock broke out above its 200-day moving average in early May.
Recall that stocks with PowerRatings of 9 have outperformed the average stock by a margin of more than 9 to 1 after five days in simulated testing from 1995 through 2008.
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