The stock scan conducted after the close on Monday found 23 winners and 27 losers. Click on the column headers below to sort the entire list. 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 [...]

Heads up: Vanguard announces share split for three exchange-traded funds Vanguard announced today a two-for-one split of shares of Vanguard® Total Stock Market ETF (VTI), Vanguard Emerging Markets ETF (VWO), and Vanguard Extended Market ETF (VXF). The conventional shares of the funds are not affected by this split. The stock scan conducted after the close on Thursday found [...]

It was not surprising to see that our daily stock scan found 165 losers and only 9 winners after yesterday’s price action. After the close, the Fast Money traders discussed the effects of high oil prices on casino stocks; they also interviewed the CEO of The Cheesecake Factory (CAKE). These companies were on Thursday’s [...]

Another one to add to the Hedge Fund Managers: First Shot, Second Chances list: Peloton investment chief plans new fund “Since the folding of Peloton in late February, I have been spending my time overseeing the orderly liquidation of the Peloton Multi-Strategy Fund and returning as much capital as possible to investors,” Mr Grant said. “At [...]

Bob Pisani does a good job reporting from the NYSE. He helps viewers get a feel of what the traders on the floor think and feel about the markets and filed an interesting report today about something we talked about in early April: the underperformance of the healthcare sector versus broad markets. Pharmaceuticals Are Not [...]

The stock scan conducted after the close on Tuesday found 10 winners and 104 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 [...]

We noted strength in utilities in yesterday’s podcast, having detected it with our sector rotation charts. Utilities have been quietly outperforming the S&P 500 index. There were three utility companies in Trading Ideas for Tuesday. Let’s look at WMB, PEG and CEG. Utilities SPDR (XLU) Daily bar chart with 50- and 200-day moving averages Daily bar chart [...]