Three Top Nasdaq Stocks for Traders
An online retailer…an operator of a Las Vegas hotel and casino…a leader in surgical robotics…these are the companies whose stocks are among the best opportunities for traders right now in the Nasdaq 100.
Namely, we’re talking about Amazon.com
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Softness in the broader market has begun to create the sort of opportunities that we at TradingMarkets believe represent a fundamental edge when it comes to trading. This edge, to put it simply, is the ability to buy temporary weakness in otherwise strong stocks. This “buy weakness, sell strength” approach is one of the cornerstones of the TradingMarkets approach to trading, and part of what we teach traders every day as part of our TradingMarket’s Path to Professional Trading course.
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I discovered these three high, PowerRating stocks by studying the Nasdaq 100 PowerRatings (for Traders) page at TradingMarkets.com.
Every day this page creates a list of all 100 of the stocks in the Nasdaq 100, and ranks them by their PowerRatings as of the previous close. This listing also notes any change in PowerRating over the course of the trading day to let traders know if the opportunities they saw at the beginning of the session are still present after trading has begun.
Amazon.com is an example of a stock that started out the day with a PowerRating of 8, but has seen its PowerRating slip to a 6 within the first few hours of trading. This likely reflects the speed with which traders pounced on Amazon.com’s weakness this morning. Amazon.com had been down four sessions in a row going into today’s trading, and clearly some traders thought that four was enough. As of this writing, shares of Amazon were up modestly on the day.
Intuitive Surgical took the opposite path. ISRG started the trading day with a PowerRating of 7, but has seen its rating improve to an 8 in the first few hours of trading. ISRG has been in retreat ever since closing above $350 per share back on Friday, December 7.
The stock’s improved PowerRating is due in part to the fact that the stock, as of this writing, is down for its fourth day in a row.
But the best of both worlds might be found in Wynn Resorts. Wynn Resorts is off significantly from its late October highs north of 170, trading below 120 as of this writing. Going into today’s trading session, WYNN was down three days in a row, falling from just under
127 to just above 116. This has created the sort of weakness in an otherwise good stock that has caused WYNN’s PowerRating to improve from 8 as of yesterday’s close to a 9 after a few hours of trading this morning.
David Penn is Senior Editor at TradingMarkets.com