Small Caps With Momentum
Today I used Barchart to sort the S&P 600 Small Cap Index stocks to find the stocks with the best momentum. First I sorted for the stocks hitting the most frequent new highs in the last month, then used the Flipchart feature to find the charts I liked.
Today's list includes Century Aluminum (NASDAQ:CENX), Chemed (NYSE:CHE), Green Plains Renewable Energy (NASDAQ:GPRE), American Assets Trusts (NYSE:AAT) and Post Properties (NYSE:PPS):
Century Aluminum (CENX)
Barchart technical indicators:
- 80% Barchart technical buy signals
- Trend Spotter buy signal
- Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
- 14 new highs and up 17.04% in the last month
- Relative Strength Index 70.33%
- Barchart computes a technical support level at 17.88
- Recently traded at 18.39 with a 50 day moving average of 15.71
Chemed (CHE)
Barchart technical indicators:
- 100% Barchart technical buy signal
- Trend Spotter buy signal
- Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
- 11 new highs and up 10.00% in the last month
- Relative Strength Index 80.37%
- Barchart computes a technical support level at 98.08
- Recently traded at 102.40 with a 50 day moving average of 92.47
Green Plains Renewable Energy (GPRE)
Barchart technical indicators:
- 96% Barchart technical buy signals
- Trend Spotter buy signal
- Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
- 11 new highs and up 22.93% in the last month
- Relative Strength Index 75.20%
- Barchart computes a technical support level at 37.40
- Recently traded at 39.73 with a 50 day moving average of 32.71
American Assets Trusts (AAT)
Barchart technical indicators:
- 88% Barchart technical buy signals
- Trend Spotter buy signal
- Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
- 10 new highs and up 3.67% in the last month
- Relative Strength Index 61.86%
- Barchart computes a technical support level at 35.08
- Recently traded at 35.65 with a 50 day moving average of 34.65
Post Properties (PPS)
Barchart technical indicators:
- 96% Barchart technical buy signals
- Trend Spotter buy signal
- Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
- 10 new highs and up 3.51% in the last month
- Relative Strength Index 61.86%
- Barchart computes a technical support level at 54.56
- Recently traded at 55.50 with a 50 day moving average of 53.11
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