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Price surges and Volume increases

Stocks with sudden price increases (surges) & volume changes, stocks starting new trends, breakouts through overhead resistance, selling climaxes, reversal patterns, and "watch list" candidates.  There is an introductory video on setups and alerts on the home page (the third video below the green lettering).

Go to List of Surging Stocks

 

Sudden Increases in Price & Volume (Surges, Spikes, & Gaps)  

Why monitor price and volume surges?  Consider the following.  When traders believe their indicators suggest a stock is about to break through a line of resistance some will act in anticipation of the event (buying pressure will increase).  Other traders will buy when they notice, even before the breakout, the increase in volume on price increases and diminishing volume on price declines.  When a stock actually breaks to the upside through resistance, other traders will notice and buy, causing the price and volume to surge.  These conditions often precede the beginning of a significant price move.  It is only logical that if a company has just developed a new cure or treatment, people will hear about it and act accordingly.  The price of its stock will surge and its trading volume will increase (the stock price will pick up momentum).  High-powered professional traders have systems that flash an "alert" or "signal" when a stock has an unusual price and volume surge.  When they note it, they will buy and the price/volume surge will be magnified.  Whenever a stock starts a new trend, it draws attention.  Traders like to buy at the beginning of a trend.  Therefore, when the price spikes up and the volume surges, momentum for the new trend builds.  When a stock has been declining and the last holdouts give up, their selling will cause the stock to decline even more as the volume surges.  Traders will notice the stock's behavior and buy the "bargain."  Volume will increase even more as the price reverses direction.  In this scenario, the stock has just had a selling climax and a price reversal.  More traders will then notice that there has been a "selling climax" and begin to accumulate.  Others add the stock to their "watch list" so they can buy as soon as the new trend takes on more definition.  Most of the time, the surges highlighted on an alert list will not be particularly attractive to a trader because the stock's pattern will be compromised by nearby overhead resistance.  However, the alerts sometimes present an opportunity to get in at the beginning of a nice move.  A stock's closing price relative to the day's price action and overall price pattern, and its volume at the close (and the percentage change in volume for the day) are important when the stock has had a price surge, gap or spike.  These lists are presented so that you can see where the day's action was and evaluate the situation for yourself

  

  Individual Stock Alerts (Price Surges)

The free lists of surging stocks provided daily here focuses on 1-day surges.  For information regarding surges associated with breakout thrusts, new trends, and other important price surges, use the "Breakouts" tab of the navigation menu on the left side of the screen.  The stocks reported on here have just had some unusual action.  The percentage change in price (% Ch) is in the column to the right of the closing price.  The next columns show the volume (Volume) and the 1-day percentage change in volume  (Vol % Ch) respectively.  The final column is the 12-day momentum (12d Mom).  A daily review of the charts of stocks listed here can uncover stocks that have recently started out on new trends, stocks breaking out of a consolidation pattern, or stocks that have had unusual market activity for some other reason.  We review these stocks to see if they have a "setup pattern" that is of sufficient interest to warrant inclusion of the stock on our "watch list."  If we decide to include a stock on our watch list, we monitor it while waiting for a good entry point.  For example, we might wait for a pullback to a rising trendline.  Perhaps we will also wait for some sign that the trendline is holding or that the stock is responding to it in a positive way.  Waiting for such a pullback also helps us optimize our stop-loss placement.  The buy price is then only slightly above support.  Therefore, when the stop is placed a little below the expected support (the trendline), any decline that triggers the stop will be relatively small (and so will any consequential loss if the unexpected happens).  

All stocks in The Valuator (about 500 stocks) are ranked in the order of their percentage change in price for the day.  The stocks with the greatest positive and negative changes are listed here (arranged in order of price change).  The most positive change may not be positive (it just may be the least negative).  The most negative change may not be negative (it may be the least positive).  Approximately 30 stocks with the most extreme moves at each end of the spectrum are listed regardless of the actual direction of the move (the total number listed is always about 60).  Therefore, on days when there is a strong move to the downside, there may be stocks above the black bar that declined.  That is, the most positive stocks may be negative.  That's where the percentage change comes into play.  We prefer to focus on stocks that have had at least a 1-day price increase of 1%, but we will sometimes check out stocks that have had a price increase a little less than that.  Remember that volume changes are important.  A price increase of 1% combined with a 50% volume decrease is not particularly noteworthy.  However,  a price increase of 1% combined with a 50% increase in volume will generate some interest.   The numbers reported are percent changes for price and volume respectively.  Short-sellers will be interested in stocks with large negative surges on heavy volume.
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Here's an alert!
The Valuator does not report PE and PEG ratios based on last year's obsolete data.   Nor does it try to look ahead a full year (analysts are notoriously inaccurate when they try to estimate a year ahead).  Instead, the 1-year earnings estimates it uses for computing PE & PEG ratios look ahead only about 6 months (6 months past + 6 months future).  We believe this is far more accurate.  Also, the market tends to look ahead about six months. · The Stops tool computes trailing volatility-adjusted stop losses that can be adjusted to match your tolerance for risk and investment time-horizon.  Let the stock have just enough room for its "normal" fluctuations as it climbs (each stock is different), but cut losses quickly when it declines more than is "normal" for that stock. · StockAlerts can help you find stocks for your watchlist that are more likely to surge within a few days.   
 

 

 Data Updated For Next Market Opening as shown in Table
(Tuesday's after-market updates are usually delayed.  See the "Notes" page for timing of updates)
Stocks above the Black bar were the most positive.  Stocks below the black bar were the most negative.

Updated Tues p.m. for Wed a.m.

Sym

Close

% Ch

Volume

Vol % Ch

12d Mom

American Int'l Group

AIG

32.77

12.6

574,708

110.4

123.5

Citigroup Inc.

C

3.82

7.30

10,897,576

137.0

111.7

Sprint Corp. FON Group

S

3.62

6.47

962,619

28.5

103.7

Ambac Financial Group

ABK

.77

6.15

157,470

230.9

117.4

MBIA Inc.

MBI

5.50

4.56

98,307

40.9

110.0

Synovus Financial

SNV

2.73

4.20

114,374

12.0

95.5

Southwestern Energy

SWN

43.89

3.88

124,618

138.4

96.9

NVIDIA Corp.

NVDA

17.55

3.72

205,924

87.5

105.9

Liz Claiborne, Inc.

LIZ

7.38

3.65

19,265

55.6

113.0

Coach Inc

COH

38.86

3.49

58,080

78.8

106.8

Micron Technology

MU

10.38

3.39

333,315

13.2

119.0

Yum!Brands, Inc.

YUM

36.60

3.36

101,218

105.1

108.3

Akamai Technologies

AKAM

30.41

3.26

79,067

59.6

117.5

Office Depot

ODP

7.96

3.24

181,722

80.2

121.2

Worthington Indus

WOR

17.67

3.15

11,266

141.3

109.4

EBay Inc.

EBAY

25.51

2.70

216,090

91.7

108.9

Newell Rubbermaid Inc.

NWL

15.01

2.53

74,782

186.1

109.0

Palm Inc

PALM

5.69

2.52

214,265

-33.2

60.6

Callaway Golf

ELY

9.06

2.49

14,782

12.2

113.4

Owens Illinois

OI

31.44

2.31

37,233

107.3

111.0

ProLogis

PLD

13.40

2.21

207,692

158.2

105.6

Citrix Systems

CTXS

45.98

2.20

45,689

3.7

102.8

Avery Dennison Corp.

AVY

32.07

2.20

19,352

31.4

100.8

Burger King

BKC

18.72

2.18

36,232

91.7

102.6

Precision Castparts

PCP

120.33

2.15

12,244

12.3

105.2

Capital One Financial

COF

38.66

2.14

67,901

69.4

102.3

Ciena Corp

CIEN

15.42

2.12

202,164

16.8

106.5

QLogic Corp.

QLGC

19.41

2.02

59,855

450.9

106.9

Jacobs Engineering

JEC

42.85

2.00

22,441

13.9

109.0

Union Pacific

UNP

70.84

1.94

51,402

113.9

106.4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LSI Logic

LSI

5.47

-1.44

65,778

17.6

97.0

Nabors Industries

NBR

22.09

-1.47

48,083

6.9

94.5

FPL Group

FPL

47.02

-1.53

29,954

58.2

100.3

Agnico Eagle Mines

AEM

59.12

-1.58

26,830

33.3

101.3

Halliburton Co.

HAL

30.91

-1.59

147,925

38.4

97.2

J.C. Penney Company Inc.

JCP

30.12

-1.60

43,944

-24.1

108.9

Whole Foods Market

WFMI

35.31

-1.62

26,869

19.7

104.9

Comerica Inc.

CMA

35.70

-1.63

250,437

1136.5

100.4

BMC Software

BMC

37.16

-1.64

23,564

-7.6

99.9

Scripps (E.W.)

SSP

9.44

-1.67

6,070

-83.1

134.7

International Game Tech.

IGT

16.99

-1.68

75,425

45.6

94.3

Massey Energy

MEE

47.96

-1.68

38,431

7.2

108.3

Macy's

M

20.68

-1.71

92,941

-28.9

111.5

Xerox Corp.

XRX

9.74

-1.72

91,909

-33.6

105.9

RadioShack Corp.

RSH

21.50

-1.74

41,671

4.9

105.6

Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter & Co.

MS

29.05

-1.79

200,583

81.4

106.0

Patterson Companies

PDCO

30.11

-1.79

13,793

52.7

101.1

C.B.S. Corp

CBS

14.44

-1.84

70,321

-20.7

104.4

Texas Instruments

TXN

24.19

-2.03

279,555

25.5

96.7

Boston Scientific

BSX

7.74

-2.03

244,258

18.5

100.7

Flowserve

FLS

105.36

-2.04

10,575

32.1

106.5

WESTERN DIGITAL CORP

WDC

38.79

-2.05

67,159

33.3

89.9

Timken Co

TKR

27.17

-2.05

10,634

74.8

102.4

First Horizon National

FHN

13.27

-2.14

15,867

-16.7

102.8

CIGNA Corp.

CI

34.05

-2.16

35,907

53.0

103.8

GameShop

GME

18.06

-2.22

51,196

42.2

93.5

First Solar

FSLR

106.22

-2.23

26,178

74.9

91.6

CF Industries

CF

100.63

-2.28

24,413

38.9

96.6

Kroger Co.

KR

22.35

-2.40

209,316

64.3

101.2

NCR Corp.

NCR

12.96

-2.48

22,734

-20.4

98.3

R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co.

RRD

20.22

-2.55

2,587,500

-27.8

N/A

ACE Limited

ACE

50.43

-2.68

31,614

173.3

100.1

Juniper Networks

JNPR

25.06

-3.02

202,373

64.3

89.8

Kenneth Cole

KCP

12.82

-4.61

520

-28.3

104.4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Number of Stocks Rising =246

 

 

 

 

Total Stocks =502


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* The advantage of this particular list is that the stocks covered are generally of high quality and they are also covered by The Valuator.  Subscribers to The Valuator are provided with metrics (like PE ratios) that are calculated by looking ahead only about 6 months instead of the "pie-in-the-sky" or obsolete metrics found on most Web sites (where metrics are either calculated on the basis of 1-year guesses about the future or they are based on data for a year that is already history).  Studies have shown that analysts are far from accurate when they try to estimate earnings a year in advance.  They are much more accurate when they try to look ahead only 6 months.  The market also tends to look forward about 6 months rather than a full year.

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