Make sure to keep an eye on this stock going forward to see if this recent slump will continue.

I believe what we are enduring is a simple case of weak holders bailing out, of momentum riders locking in profits for fear of riding their positions back down to breakeven or losses.

I wanted to find which S&P 400 Mid Cap stocks had the highest price appreciation in the past year. I used Barchart to sort the Index for those winners.

The top scoring sector across our 1,800 stock universe is financials. Healthcare and utilities also score above average this week.

The average small cap score is 52.43 this week, above the four week moving average score of 50.99. The average small cap is trading -25.41% below its 52 week high, -2.14% below its 200 dma, and has 8.37 days to cover held short.

Today I used Barchart to sort the S&P 400 Mid Cap Stock Index to see which stocks were the YTD winners.