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The Stock List: Selling Reaches Extreme Levels as S&P 500 Drops Below 1,100

  • October 3, 2011
  • David Penn

When the top decliners in the S&P 500 represent sectors as diverse as semiconductors – ^MU^ – health care -^THC^ – steel – ^AKS^ – and  homebuilding – ^PHM^, clearly a broad-based sell-off is underway.

One question many traders are asking themselves is whether or not we are closer to the beginning or the end of this sell-off, a sell-off that has seen stocks like ^AAPL^ sell-off for six days in a row.

But a more important question may be this: what strategies are working best right now? Where are the edges when markets are selling off as aggressively as they have been over the past several weeks and how can traders learn how to better take advantage of them?

The answer to the first question is unknowable – though in the short term it is important to recognize the severely oversold nature of the stock market as a whole. Fortunately, the answer to the second question, on the other hand, is not only very knowable, but is part of our Special to 7 Stocks section below.

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Here are 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Tuesday

Scheduled to report quarterly earnings on Tuesday, ^YUM^ shares closed lower for a fourth day in a row, dropping by nearly 2%. 

The most aggressive selling was in stocks that were making new 52-week lows ahead of trading on Tuesday. Down well over 9% on Monday were shares of both ^BAC^ and^C^. 
What’s up on a down day? Up 2% and closing higher for a third day in a row above the 200-day moving average are shares of ^LO^. Fellow cigarette maker ^MO^, which we noted in yesterday’s 7 Stocks You Need to Know, saw its shares close lower by 1%.

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Shares of ^GMCR^ continue to pullback above the 200-day moving average, closing in oversold territory for a third day in a row. GMCR ended trading on Monday down well over 5%. 

Up seven out of the past eight trading days, shares of ^CPB^ are benefitting from the “risk off” attitude among traders and investors in recent weeks. Trading below its 200-day moving average, the stock remains just outside of overbought territory.

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David Penn is Editor in Chief of TradingMarkets.com