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Vermilion Short Shots: Technically Vulnerable Stocks

Short Shots is a collection of technically vulnerable charts culled from the Negative Inflecting and Toppy columns within our Weekly Compass report or from various technical screening processes. The charts contained in this report have developed concerning technical patterns that suggest further price deterioration is likely. For these reasons Short Shots can also be a great source of ideas for investors interested in short-selling candidates.
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3D Systems Corporation

3D Systems is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides 3D printing solutions, including 3D printers for plastics and metals, materials, software, on demand manufacturing services and digital design tools. The company's solutions support applications in a range of industries and verticals, including healthcare, aerospace, automotive and durable goods. The company's healthcare capabilities include simulation, Virtual Surgical Planning (VSP?), and printing of medical and dental devices, models, and surgical guides and instruments. The company provides 3D printing technologies including Stereolithography, Selective Laser Sintering, Direct Metal Printing, MultiJet Printing and ColorJet Printing.

Akcea Therapeutics Inc.

Akcea Therapeutics is biopharmaceutical company developing and marketing drugs globally to treat patients with rare and serious diseases. The company's TEGSEDI treats the polyneuropathy caused by hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis in adults. The company is also focused on commercial preparations for WAYLIVRA in the European Union. WAYLIVRA is an adjunct to diet in adult patients with genetically confirmed familial chylomicronemia syndrome, who are at risk for pancreatitis, in whom response to diet and triglyceride lowering therapy has been inadequate. TEGSEDI, WAYLIVRA and its pipeline drugs are based on the company's antisense technology platform.

Ambarella Inc.

Analog Devices Inc.

Analog Devices is an analog technology company. The company designs, manufactures, and markets a portfolio of solutions, including integrated circuits, algorithms, software, and subsystems. The company's analog products include data converter that translate real-world analog signals into digital data and also translate digital data into analog signals, amplifiers that condition analog signals, and power management and reference products that include functions such as power conversion, driver monitoring, sequencing and energy management. The company's digital signal processing products are designed to execute software programs, or algorithms, associated with processing digitized real-time, real-world data.

Apartment Investment & Management Co Class A

Apartment Investment and Management is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust, focused on the ownership, management, redevelopment and limited development of apartment communities located in the United States. The company, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, AIMCO-GP, Inc. and AIMCO-LP Trust, owns a majority of the ownership interests in AIMCO Properties, L.P. (the Aimco Operating Partnership). The company conducts all of its business and owns all of its assets through the Aimco Operating Partnership. The company owns and operates a portfolio of apartment communities in several states and the District of Columbia.

Applied Therapeutics

Applied Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a pipeline of product candidates against validated molecular targets in indications of unmet medical need. The company's main product candidate, AT-007, is a central nervous system, penetrant AR inhibitor (ARI) that the company is developing for the treatment of galactosemia, a rare pediatric metabolic disease that affects how the body processes a simple sugar called galactose. The company's second product candidate, AT-001, is an ARI with systemic exposure and peripheral nerve permeability that the company is developing for the treatment of diabetic cardiomyopathy, a fatal fibrosis of the heart.

AvalonBay Communities Inc.

AvalonBay Communities is a real estate investment trust. The company develops, redevelops, acquires, owns and operates multifamily communities primarily in New England, the New York/New Jersey metro area, the Mid-Atlantic, the Pacific Northwest, and Northern and Southern California. The company owns or holds a direct or indirect ownership interest in: operating apartment communities containing apartment homes in various states and the District of Columbia; communities under development; and rights to develop an additional communities.

Benchmark Electronics Inc.

Benchmark Electronics provides engineering services, technology solutions and manufacturing services. The company provides a range of design, engineering, automation, test, manufacturing and fulfillment solutions that support its customers' products from initial concept and design through prototyping, design validation, testing, ramp-to-volume production, distribution and aftermarket support. From initial product concept to volume production, including direct order fulfillment and aftermarket services, the company provides services and solutions to original equipment manufacturers. The company's customer engagement focuses three key areas: engineering services, technology solutions, and manufacturing services.

Brink's Company

Brink's is engaged in total cash management, route-based logistics and payment solutions including cash-in-transit, automated teller machine (ATM) services, cash management services, including vault outsourcing, money processing, and safe services, and international transportation of valuables. The company's service offerings, among others, include: cash-in-transit services, which include the transportation of cash between businesses and financial institutions; ATM services, which provide customers who own and operate ATMs a variety of service options; global services, which provide transportation of commodities; and CompuSafe? service, which provides a closed-loop system.

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Capitol Federal Financial Inc.

Capitol Federal Financial is a savings and loan holding company. Through its Capitol Federal Savings Bank subsidiary, the company accepts deposits from the public and businesses and invests those funds in permanent loans secured by first mortgages on owner-occupied, one- to four-family residences. The company also originates and participates in commercial loans, originates consumer loans secured by mortgages on one- to four-family residences, and invests in certain investment securities and mortgage-backed securities. The company provides a variety of deposit accounts, which include savings accounts, money market accounts, interest-bearing and non-interest-bearing checking accounts, and certificates of deposit.

Cigna Corporation

Cigna is a global health service organization. The company's segments are: Integrated Medical, which includes its employer-sponsored medical coverage and Medicare offerings for seniors and individual insurance offerings to non-seniors both on and off the public health insurance exchanges; Health Services, which consists of the pharmacy benefit management and certain health management services; International Markets, which provides a range of medical and supplemental health, life, and accident benefits to individuals and employers; and Group Disability and Other, which includes its commercial long- and short-term disability products, and its term life group insurance products.

Credicorp Ltd.

CrediCorp is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged in investing activities. Co. operates primarily through four operating segments: banking, investment banking, insurance, and pension funds. Banking - principally handling loans, credit facilities, deposits and current accounts. Insurance - principally comprising the issue of insurance policies to cover losses in commercial property, transportation, marine vessels, automobile, life, health and pension funds. Pension funds - providing services of private pension fund management to affiliated pensioners. Investment banking - provide investment brokerage and management to a broad and diverse clientele.

CVS Health Corporation

CVS Health is a health company. The company's segments are: Pharmacy Services, which provides a range of pharmacy benefit management solutions, including plan design offerings and administration, formulary management, and retail pharmacy network management services; Retail/Long-Term Care (LTC), which sells prescription drugs and general merchandise, including over-the-counter drugs, provides health care services through its MinuteClinic? walk-in medical clinics and conducts LTC pharmacy operations; and Health Care Benefits, which provides a range of voluntary and consumer-directed health insurance products and related services, including medical, pharmacy, dental and behavioral health plans.

Douglas Emmett Inc

Douglas Emmett is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust. The company owns and operates office and multifamily properties located in Los Angeles County, CA and in Honolulu, HI. The company operates two segments: the acquisition, development, ownership and management of office real estate, and the acquisition, development, ownership and management of multifamily real estate. The services for its office segment include primarily rental of office space and other tenant services, including parking and storage space rental. The services for its multifamily segment include primarily rental of apartments and other tenant services, including parking and storage space rental.

Equity Residential

Equity Residential is a real estate investment trust. The company focuses on the acquisition, development and management of rental apartment properties. The company is the general partner of, and owns an ownership interest in ERP Operating Limited Partnership (ERPOP). All of the company's property ownership, development and related business operations are conducted through ERPOP and those entities/subsidiaries owned or controlled by ERPOP (collectively, Operating Partnership). The Operating Partnership holds substantially all of the assets of the company The company, directly or indirectly through investments in title holding entities, owns all or a portion of its properties located in several states and the District of Columbia.

GEO GROUP INC. (THE)

GEO Group is a real estate investment trust focusing on the ownership, leasing and management of secure facilities, processing centers and reentry facilities and the provision of community-based services and youth services. The company owns, leases and operates a range of secure facilities including maximum, medium and minimum security facilities, processing centers, as well as community-based reentry facilities. The company provides compliance technologies, monitoring services, and evidence-based supervision and treatment programs for community-based parolees, probationers and pretrial defendants. The company also provides transportation services for offender and detainee populations as contracted.

Hollysys Automation Technologies Ltd.

Kearny Financial Corp.

Kearny Financial is the holding company for Kearny Bank (the Bank), a nonmember New Jersey stock savings bank. The Bank is engaged in the business of accepting deposits from the general public in New Jersey and New York and using these deposits, together with other funds, to originate or purchase loans for its portfolio and invest in securities. The company's loan portfolio is comprised of loans collateralized by commercial and residential real estate augmented by secured and unsecured loans to businesses and consumers. The company's deposit products include interest-bearing and non-interest-bearing checking accounts, money market deposit accounts, savings accounts and certificates of deposit accounts.

Levi Strauss & Co. Class A

Levi Strauss & Co. is an apparel company. Under its Levi's?, Dockers?, Signature by Levi Strauss & Co.? and Denizen? brands, the company designs, markets and sells, directly or through third parties and licensees - products that include jeans, casual and dress pants, tops, shorts, skirts, jackets, footwear, and related accessories for men, women and children around the world. The company licenses its Levi's? and Dockers? trademarks for a variety of product categories in multiple markets in each of its regions, including footwear, belts, wallets and bags, outerwear, sweaters, dress shirts, kidswear, sleepwear and hosiery. The company's operates its business via three geographic regions: Americas, Europe and Asia.

Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp.

ManTech International Corporation Class A

ManTech International is a provider of technology solutions and services for U.S. defense, intelligence community and federal civilian agencies. The company's solutions and services include: Cyber; Enterprise Information Technology; Software, Application and Systems Development; Multi-Discipline Intelligence; Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Combat Systems, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance; Program Protection and Mission Assurance; Systems Engineering; Training; and Supply Chain Management and Logistics.

Mercer International Inc.

Merck & Co. Inc.

Merck & Co. is a global health care company that delivers health solutions through its prescription medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies and animal health products. The company's segments are: Pharmaceutical, which includes human health pharmaceutical products that consist of therapeutic and preventive agents for the treatment of human disorders, and human health vaccine products that consist of preventive pediatric, adolescent and adult vaccines; and Animal Health, which discovers, develops, manufactures and markets veterinary pharmaceuticals, vaccines and health management solutions and services, as well as a suite of digitally connected identification, traceability and monitoring products.

Northern Trust Corporation

Northern Trust is a financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, including The Northern Trust Company, the company provides wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking solutions. The company focuses on managing and servicing client assets through two segments: Corporate and Institutional Services, which provides asset servicing and related services to corporate and public retirement funds, foundations, endowments, fund managers, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, and other institutional investors; and Wealth Management, which focuses on individuals and families, business owners, executives, retirees, and privately-held businesses in its target markets.

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OrthoPediatrics Corp

OrthoPediatrics is a medical device company that designs, develops and markets anatomically appropriate implants and devices for children with orthopedic conditions, giving pediatric orthopedic surgeons and caregivers the ability to treat children with technologies designed to meet their needs. The company sells its products, including PediLoc?, PediPlates?, Cannulated Screws, PediFlex? nail, PediNail?, PediLoc? Tibia, ACL Reconstruction System, Locking Cannulated Blade, Locking Proximal Femur, Spica Tables, RESPONSE Spine, BandLoc, Pediguard, Pediatric Nailing Platform | Femur, Orthex, and QuickPack?, to hospitals and medical facilities throughout the United States and other international markets.

OSI Systems Inc.

OSI Systems, together with its subsidiaries, is a designer and manufacturer of electronic systems and components for applications. The company sells its products and provides related services in various markets, including homeland security, healthcare, defense and aerospace. The company's operating divisions are: Security, which provides security and inspection systems, security screening solutions and related services; Healthcare, which provides patient monitoring, diagnostic cardiology, and anesthesia delivery and ventilation systems; Optoelectronics and Manufacturing, which provides electronic components and electronic manufacturing services for the Security and Healthcare divisions.

Paramount Group Inc.

Paramount Group is a real estate investment trust focused on owning, operating, managing, acquiring and redeveloping Class A office properties in select central business district submarkets of New York City, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. The company conducts its business through, and substantially all its interests in properties and investments are held by, Paramount Group Operating Partnership LP, a Delaware limited partnership (the Operating Partnership). The company is the sole general partner of the Operating Partnership. The company's reportable segments are separated by region based on the three regions in which the company conducts its business: New York , San Francisco and Washington D.C.

Pilgrim's Pride Corporation

Pilgrims Pride is primarily engaged in the production, processing, marketing and distribution of fresh, frozen chicken products to retailers, distributors and foodservice operators. The company's primary product types are fresh chicken products, prepared chicken products and export chicken products. The company's fresh chicken products consist of refrigerated (nonfrozen) whole or cut-up chicken, either pre-marinated or non-marinated and prepackaged case-ready chicken. The company's case-ready chicken includes various combinations of freshly refrigerated, whole chickens and chicken parts in trays, bags or other consumer packs labeled and priced ready for the retail grocer's fresh meat counter.

SFL Corporation Limited

Standard Motor Products Inc.

Standard Motor Products is a manufacturer and distributor of replacement parts for the engine management and temperature control systems of motor vehicles in the automotive aftermarket industry with a complementary focus on heavy duty, industrial equipment and the original equipment market. The company's segment are: Engine Management, which manufactures and distributes a line of components for the ignition, electrical, emissions, fuel and safety-related systems of motor vehicles; and Temperature Control, which manufactures and distributes a line of components for the temperature control systems, engine cooling systems, power window accessories and windshield washer systems of motor vehicles.

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Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk PT (ADR)

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UNIQURE NV

uniQure is a biopharmaceutical company. Co. is engaged in the field of gene therapy, seeking to develop single treatments with potentially curative results for patients suffering from genetic and other diseases. Co. is advancing a focused pipeline of gene therapies that have been developed both internally and through partnerships, such as Co.'s collaboration with Bristol Myers-Squibb focused on cardiovascular diseases. Co. has established clinical proof-of-concept in its key indication, hemophilia B, and achieved preclinical proof-of-concept in Huntington's disease.

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc

Walgreens Boots Alliance is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in retail and wholesale pharmacy. The company's operations are organized into three divisions, which are also its reportable segments: Retail Pharmacy USA; Retail Pharmacy International; and Pharmaceutical Wholesale. The Retail Pharmacy USA division has pharmacy-led health and beauty retail offerings. The Retail Pharmacy International division has pharmacy-led health and beauty retail businesses. The Pharmaceutical Wholesale division, which mainly operates under the Alliance Healthcare brand, supplies medicines, other healthcare products and related services to pharmacies, doctors, health centers and hospitals.

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