Trading Ideas for Thursday

The stock scan conducted after the close on Wednesday found 50 winners and 15 losers. Click on the column headers to sort the list below.

The scan is designed to find stocks that are current “in play”; criteria includes price movement, range and liquidity (500,000 shares on the day, 20-day average volume of 1.5 million shares). The entire list has been ranked and sorted relative to performance against the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes. Please refer to the podcast for background information.

Ticker Close Change %Change Sell Buy
DRS 79.25 1.53 1.97% 73.66  
BHP 90.21 2.2 2.51% 82.59  
SGMS 30.75 0.84 2.79% 26.1  
TGB 5.12 -0.44 -8.00% 4.86  
SINA 53.15 7.12 13.72% 44.16  
MPEL 14.26 0.37 2.62% 12.96  
CCI 42.2 0.75 1.81% 38.95  
SVU 35.26 0.86 2.50% 32.11  
ATVI 32.52 0.34 1.06% 31.2  
CCU 34.82 0.39 1.14% 32.16  
VRX 15.98 0.41 2.64% 13.97  
SNDK 31.42 0.97 3.17% 26.95  
COH 37.05 1.76 4.99% 32.08  
WDC 33.87 2.25 7.20% 28.17  
TV 26.43 0.45 1.73% 24.7  
BRCD 8.02 0.08 1.03% 7.04  
DSX 34.93 0.79 2.30% 31.89  
GT 28.53 0.49 1.76% 25.45  
ANN 28.81 0.48 1.69% 25.93  
HOT 53.4 1.08 2.07% 50.43  
WIN 13.1 0.19 1.47% 12.02  
MCO 43.41 0.74 1.74% 39.29  
$NDX.X 1997.3 -3.31 -0.17%    
BBBY 33.71 0.66 2.00% 31.39  
PCAR 49.73 0.57 1.16% 46.26  
KLAC 45.81 1.63 3.69% 41.57  
PCU 107.92 -1.92 -1.74%   119.74
EMC 16.68 0.7 4.38% 14.94  
HON 61.99 1.16 1.91% 58.18  
IACI 23.73 0.73 3.17% 21.78  
DAR 14 -1.32 -8.64%   17.17
NYX 71.47 0.86 1.22% 69.08  
UNM 24.37 0.38 1.58% 23.5  
LUV 13.5 0.38 2.90% 12.3  
PLCM 24.86 0.42 1.69% 22.37  
$SPX.X 1408.64 5.65 0.40%    
IMCL 41.57 -0.57 -1.33%   44.29
SWY 32.29 1.12 3.59% 29.36  
AES 19.87 0.29 1.49% 18.58  
JNY 17.45 0.41 2.39% 15.45  
VZ 38.95 0.69 1.81% 37.32  
PGR 18.63 0.64 3.56% 17.58  
LINTA 16.25 0.03 0.19% 15.09  
MI 25.73 0.33 1.30% 23.78  
HRP 7.7 0.24 3.24% 6.92  
SOLF 17.41 1.48 9.14% 13.76  
ODP 13.86 0.45 3.36% 12.82  
FNM 29.89 1.68 5.97% 26.4  
DE 81.25 -8.39 -9.30%   91.69
BK 44.85 1.17 2.68%   47
STX 21.24 1.23 6.13% 18.36  
STJ 39.9 -1.45 -3.51%   42.94
HGSI 5.97 -0.36 -5.86%   6.47
CHRS 5.54 0.11 2.03% 4.77  
SGP 19.59 0.65 3.43% 17.32  
FII 35.99 0.38 1.07%   37.02
NVDA 22.07 0.76 3.54% 20.73  
HANS 29.12 0.02 0.08%   32.04
USU 5.77 0.14 2.50% 4.57  
UNH 32.02 -0.48 -1.47%   35.85
HOLX 21.25 -0.42 -1.95%   24.8
SNCR 11.93 -0.35 -2.85%   14.58
SWIM 8.1 -0.06 -0.74%   8.7
WM 9.78 -0.08 -0.81% 9.54  
EMKR 8.01 0.48 6.39% 6.43  
MCGC 6.37 -0.22 -3.35%   7.23
UCBH 6.14 -0.42 -6.40%   7.65

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