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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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8x8 Inc.

8x8 is a cloud provider of enterprise Software-as-a-Service communications solutions, that enable businesses of all sizes to communicate across voice, video meetings, chat and contact centers. From one proprietary cloud technology platform, customers have access to unified communications, team collaboration, video conferencing, contact center, data and analytics and other services. The 8x8 technology platform provides customers with primary technology integrations within their existing infrastructure. The company provides a variety of stand alone services and offerings including 8x8 Virtual Office; 8x8 Contact Center; 8x8 Meetings; 8x8 Team Messaging; and Script8? (Scripting Engine).

Adobe Inc.

Adobe is a software company. The company provides a line of products and services used for creating, managing, delivering, measuring, optimizing, engaging and transacting with content across personal computers, devices and media. The company's segments are: Digital Media, which provides products, services and solutions that enable individuals, teams and enterprises to create, publish and promote their content; Digital Experience, which provides a platform and set of applications and services through Adobe Experience Cloud; and Publishing, which contains products and services that address market opportunities including eLearning solutions, web conferencing, web application development and printing.

Alliance Resource Partners L.P.

Alliance Resource Partners is a natural resource company. The company is a coal producer in the eastern United States. The company markets its coal production to main domestic and international utilities and industrial users. The company has two reportable segments: Illinois Basin, which comprises of multiple operating segments, including operating mining complexes Webster County Coal's Dotiki mining complex, Gibson County Coal's mining complex, River View's mining complex and the Hamilton mining complex; and Appalachia, which comprises of multiple operating segments, including the Mettiki mining complex, the Tunnel Ridge mining complex, the MC Mining mining complex and the Penn Ridge property.

Autodesk Inc.

Autodesk is a design software and services company. The company is engaged in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software and services. The company's product offerings include: AutoCAD, which is a customizable and extensible CAD application for design, drafting, detailing, and visualization; AutoCAD Civil 3D, which provides surveying, design, analysis, and documentation solution for civil engineering; CAM Solutions, which is a computer-aided manufacturing software that provides solutions for computer numeric control machining, inspection, and modeling for manufacturing; and Inventor, which provides tools for 3D mechanical design, simulation, analysis, tooling, visualization, and documentation.

Axon Enterprise Inc

Axon Enterprise is provider of law enforcement technology solutions. The company's operations are comprised of two reportable segments: TASER, which is focused on development, manufacture and sale of conducted energy weapons, also known as conducted energy devices, which the company sells under its brand name, TASER; and software and sensors, which is focused on-officer body (Axon Body and Flex) and in-car (Axon Fleet) cameras as well as cloud-based digital evidence management software (Evidence.com), as well as develops, manufactures and sells hardware and cloud-based software solutions that enable law enforcement to capture, store, manage, share and analyze video and other digital evidence.

Bandwidth Class A

Bandwidth is a cloud-based communications platform-as-a-service (CPaaS) provider. The company's solutions include a range of software Application Programming Interfaces for voice and text functionality and its owned and managed, purpose-built Internet Protocol voice network. The company's operating segments include: CPaaS, which provides Voice, Messaging, 911 and Phone Numbers solutions through the company's proprietary CPaaS software application programming interfaces; and other, which consists of services provided such as SIP trunking, data resale, and a hosted Voice-over Internet Protocol and from traffic generated by other carriers, Short Message Service registration and other miscellaneous product lines.

BHP Group

Ceridian HCM Holding Inc.

Ceridian HCM Holding is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a human capital management (HCM) software company. Dayforce, the company's cloud HCM platform, provides human resources (HR), payroll, benefits, workforce management, and talent management functionality. In addition to Dayforce, the company sells Powerpay, a cloud HR and payroll solution for the Canadian small business market, through both direct sales and established partner channels. The company also continues to support customers using its Bureau solutions, which it generally stopped selling to new customers. The company invests in maintenance and necessary updates to support its Bureau customers and continues to migrate them to Dayforce.

Colgate-Palmolive Company

Colgate-Palmolive manufactures and markets a variety of products in the United States and around the world. The company has two product segments: Oral, Personal and Home Care; and Pet Nutrition. Oral, Personal and Home Care products include toothpaste, toothbrushes and mouthwash, bar and liquid hand soaps, shower gels, shampoos, conditioners, deodorants and antiperspirants, skin care products, dishwashing detergents, fabric conditioners, household cleaners, and other similar items. Pet Nutrition products include specialty pet nutrition products manufactured and marketed by Hill's Pet Nutrition.

CryoLife Inc.

CryoLife is engaged in the manufacturing, processing, and distribution of medical devices and implantable human tissues used in cardiac and vascular surgical procedures for patients with aortic disease. The company has the following product families: BioGlue? Surgical Adhesive products, JOTEC stent grafts and surgical products, On-X mechanical heart valves and surgical products, and implantable cardiac and vascular human tissues. The company's medical devices and preservation services are primarily used by cardiac and vascular surgeons to treat patients with aortic disease, including heart valve disease, and to a lesser extent, other conditions in cardiac and vascular surgery.

CyberArk Software Ltd.

Darden Restaurants Inc.

Darden Restaurants is a restaurant company. The company owns and operates restaurants through subsidiaries in the U.S. and Canada under the Olive Garden?, LongHorn Steakhouse?, Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen?, Yard House?, The Capital Grille?, Seasons 52?, Bahama Breeze?, and Eddie V's Prime Seafood? trademarks. The company has four reportable segments: Olive Garden; LongHorn Steakhouse; Fine Dining (which includes The Capital Grille and Eddie V's); and Other Business (which includes Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen, Yard House, Seasons 52, Bahama Breeze and results from its franchise operations).

Enable Midstream Partners LP

Enterprise Products Partners L.P.

Enterprise Products Partners is a provider of midstream energy services to producers and consumers of natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), crude oil, petrochemicals and refined products. The company's midstream energy operations include: natural gas gathering, treating, processing, transportation and storage; NGL transportation, fractionation, storage, and export and import terminals; crude oil gathering, transportation, storage, and export and import terminals; petrochemical and refined products transportation, storage, export and import terminals, and related services; and a marine transportation business that operates primarily on the U.S. inland and Intracoastal Waterway systems.

EOG Resources Inc.

EOG Resources, together with its subsidiaries, explores for, develops, produces and markets crude oil, natural gas liquids and natural gas primarily in main producing basins in the United States, The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, The People's Republic of China, Canada and, from time to time, select other international areas.

Exelon Corporation

Exelon is a utility services holding company engaged in the generation, delivery and marketing of energy through Exelon Generation Company, LLC and the energy distribution and transmission businesses through Commonwealth Edison Company, PECO Energy Company, Baltimore Gas and Electric Company, Potomac Electric Power Company, Delmarva Power & Light Company and Atlantic City Electric Company. Through its business services subsidiary Exelon Business Services Company, LLC, the company provides its subsidiaries with a variety of support services.

First Solar Inc.

First Solar is a provider of photovoltaic (PV) solar energy solutions. The company designs, manufactures and sells PV solar modules with a thin film semiconductor technology, and also develops and sells PV solar power systems that mainly use the modules it manufactures. The company also provides operations and maintenance (O&M) services to system owners. The company's modules segment involves the design, manufacture and sale of cadmium telluride solar modules, which convert sunlight into electricity. The company's second segment is its systems segment, through which it provides power plant solutions, which include project development, engineering, procurement, and construction services and O&M services.

Funko Class A

Funko is holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a pop culture consumer products company. The company sells various licensed pop culture consumer products featuring characters from a range of media and entertainment content, including movies, TV shows, video games, music and sports. The company's product categories include: Figures, which includes figures that celebrate pop culture icons in the form of stylized vinyl, blind-packed miniatures and action figures; and Other, which includes plush products that are soft-sculpt figures; apparel (including t-shirts and hats); homewares (including drinkware, party lights and other home accessories); and stylized bags, purses and wallets and board games.

Hersha Hospitality Trust Class A

Hersha Hospitality Trust is a real estate investment trust. The company invests primarily in institutional grade hotels in primary urban gateway markets including New York, Washington, District of Columbia, Boston, Philadelphia, South Florida and select markets on the West Coast. The company owns its hotels and its investments in joint ventures through its operating partnership, Hersha Hospitality Limited Partnership, for which the company serves as the sole general partner. The majority of the company's wholly-owned hotels are managed by Hersha Hospitality Management, L.P., a management company owned by certain of its trustees and executive officers and other unaffiliated third party investors.

Hyatt Hotels Corporation Class A

Hyatt Hotels is a hospitality company engaged in the development, ownership, operation, management, franchising, licensing or provision of services to a portfolio of properties, consisting of full service hotels, select service hotels, resorts, and other properties, including spas and fitness studios, timeshare, fractional, and other forms of residential and vacation properties. The company also manages, provides services to, or licenses its trademarks with respect to residential ownership units that are often adjacent to a Hyatt-branded hotel. Additionally, for condominium ownership units, the company provides services and/or manage the rental programs or homeowner associations associated with such units.

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Innovative Industrial Properties Inc

Innovative Industrial Properties is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a real estate investment trust focused on the acquisition, ownership and management of industrial properties leased to state-licensed operators for their regulated state-licensed cannabis facilities. The company leases its properties on a triple-net lease basis, where the tenant is responsible for various aspects of and costs related to the property and its operation during the lease term, including structural repairs, maintenance, taxes and insurance. The company conducts its business through a real estate investment trust, in which the company's properties are owned by its operating partnership, IIP Operating Partnership, LP.

Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Ionis Pharmaceuticals is engaged in discovering and developing RNA-targeted therapeutics. The company has two commercial medicines, SPINRAZA and TEGSEDI. SPINRAZA (nusinersen) injection for intrathecal use is a survival motor neuron-2, directed antisense oligonucleotide indicated for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy in pediatric and adult patients. TEGSEDI (inotersen) injection is a Generation 2+ antisense medicine and an approved subcutaneous RNA-targeting medicine designed to treat people with polyneuropathy caused by hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis.

Jazz Pharmaceuticals Public Limited Company

Jazz Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company focused on identifying, developing and commercializing products that address unmet medical needs. Co.'s products and product candidates focus on sleep and hematology/oncology. Co.'s products are: Xyrem® oral solution, which treats both cataplexy and excessive daytime sleepiness, in patients with narcoleps; Erwinaze®, which treats patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, who have developed hypersensitivity to E. coli-derived asparaginase; and Defitelio®, which treats adult and pediatric patients with hepatic veno-occlusive disease, with renal or pulmonary dysfunction following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

JinkoSolar Holding Co. Ltd. Sponsored ADR

MongoDB Inc. Class A

MongoDB operates as a general purpose database platform. The company's primary offerings are: MongoDB Enterprise Advanced, which includes the company's proprietary commercial database server, enterprise management capabilities, its graphical user interface, analytics integrations, technical support and a commercial license to its platform; MongoDB Atlas, which provides customers with automated provisioning and healing, system monitoring, managed backup and restore, default security and other features; and Community Server, which is a free-to-download version of the company's database that does not include all of the features of its commercial platform. The company also provides consulting and training to its customers.

New Jersey Resources Corporation

New Jersey Resources is an energy services holding company whose principal business is the distribution of natural gas through a regulated utility, providing other retail and wholesale energy services to customers and investing in clean energy projects and midstream assets. The company's segments are: Natural Gas Distribution, which consists of regulated natural gas services, off-system sales, capacity and storage management operations; Clean Energy Ventures, which consists of capital investments in clean energy projects; Energy Services, which consists of unregulated wholesale and retail energy operations; and Midstream, which consists of investments in the midstream natural gas market.

NGL Energy Partners LP

Occidental Petroleum Corporation

Occidental Petroleum has three reporting segments: oil and gas, which explores for, develops and produces oil and condensate, natural gas liquids (NGL) and natural gas; chemical, which mainly manufactures and markets basic chemicals (chlorine, caustic soda, chlorinated organics, potassium chemicals, ethylene dichloride, chlorinated isocyanurates, sodium silicates and calcium chloride) and vinyls (vinyl chloride monomer, polyvinyl chloride and ethylene); and marketing and midstream, which purchases, markets, gathers, processes, transports and stores oil, condensate, NGL, natural gas, carbon dioxide and power.

PDC Energy Inc.

PDC Energy is an independent exploration and production company that acquires, explores and develops properties for the production of crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids with operations in the Wattenberg Field in Colorado and the Delaware Basin in Texas. The company's operations in the Wattenberg Field are focused in the horizontal Niobrara and Codell plays and its Delaware Basin operations are primarily focused in the Wolfcamp zones. The company is engaged in two operating segments: its oil and gas exploration and production segment and its gas marketing segment.

Progressive Corporation

Progressive is an insurance holding company. The company's insurance subsidiaries and affiliates provide personal and commercial auto insurance, personal residential property insurance, and other insurance and related services. The company's Personal Lines segment writes insurance for personal autos and recreational and other vehicles. The Commercial Lines segment writes auto-related primary liability and physical damage insurance, and business-related general liability and property insurance, each predominately for small businesses. The company focuses on property insurance for homes, condos, manufactured homes, and renters, as well as personal umbrella insurance and primary and excess flood insurance.

Strategic Education Inc.

Strategic Education is an education services company. The company provides campus-based and online post-secondary education offerings through two subsidiaries, Strayer University and Capella University. Strayer University provides undergraduate and graduate degree programs in business administration, accounting, information technology, education, health services administration, nursing, public administration, and criminal justice at physical campuses, primarily located in the eastern U.S., and online. Capella University is an online post-secondary education company that provides a variety of bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs primarily delivered to working adults.

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Tesco PLC

Tesco is a retailer. Co. and its subsidiaries are engaged in retailing and associated activities in the U.K. and Republic of Ireland; and Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Malaysia, and Thailand. Co. provides retail banking and insurance services through Tesco Bank in the U.K. Co. sells and services of motor and home insurance policies underwritten by Tesco Underwriting Limited, or in a minority of cases by a third-party underwriter. As of Feb 25 2017, Co. had a total of 6,809 stores worldwide, including 256 franchised stores.

Tootsie Roll Industries Inc.

Tootsie Roll Industries and its subsidiaries are engaged in the manufacture and sale of confectionery products. The company's products are marketed in a variety of packages designed for display and sale in different types of retail outlets. They are sold through candy and grocery brokers and by the company itself to customers throughout the United States. These customers include wholesale distributors of candy and groceries, supermarkets, variety stores, dollar stores, chain grocers, drug chains, discount chains, cooperative grocery associations, mass merchandisers, warehouse and membership club stores, vending machine operators, the United States military and fund-raising charitable organizations.

Twilio Inc. Class A

Twilio provides a cloud communications platform that enables developers to build, scale and operate communications within their software applications via the company's Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). The company's platform consists of three layers: Engagement Cloud, which provides functionality for a specific purpose, such as two-factor authentication or a contact center; Programmable Communications Cloud, which provides a range of products that enables developers to embed voice, messaging and video capabilities into their applications; and Super Network, which contains a set of API's giving the company's customers access to components of its platform.

VeriSign Inc.

Verisign is a provider of domain name registry services and internet infrastructure, enabling internet navigation for domain names. The company enables the security, stability, and resiliency of main internet infrastructure and services, including providing root zone maintainer services, operating internet root servers, and providing registration services and authoritative resolution for the .com and .net top-level domains, which support the majority of global e-commerce. The company operates the authoritative directory of and/or the back-end systems for all .com, .net, .cc, .tv, .gov, .jobs, .edu and .name domain names, among others. The company also provides internationalized domain name services.

Workday Inc. Class A

Workday is a provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. The company's products include: Workday Financial Management, an application with financial capabilities, analytics and metrics, and auditable process management; and Workday Human Capital Management, which includes global human resources management (workforce lifecycle management, organization management, compensation, absence, and employee benefits administration) and global talent management (goal management, performance management, succession planning, and career and development planning). The company's other solutions include Adaptive Insights Business Planning Cloud, as well as Workday Data-as-a-Service.

Workiva

Workiva is a provider of cloud-based solutions for connected data, reporting and compliance. The company's platform, Wdesk provides controlled collaboration, data linking, data integrations, granular permissions, process management and a full audit trail. Wdesk enables the company's users to collect, aggregate and prepare their unstructured and structured data in a cloud-based environment. Numbers, narrative, charts and graphics can be linked inside Wdesk. The company's Wdesk platform enables customers to collect, link, manage, report and analyze business data for a range of use cases across public and private companies, government agencies and higher-education institutions.

Zendesk Inc.

Zendesk is a software development company that provides software as a service solutions. The company's product solutions include: Zendesk Support, which provides organizations with the ability to track, prioritize, and solve customer support tickets; Zendesk Chat, which is a live chat software; Zendesk Talk, which is a cloud-based call center software for phone and short message service support conversations; Zendesk Guide, which is a knowledge base that powers both customer self-service and support agent productivity; Zendesk Explore, which provides analytics for organizations; and Zendesk Sell, which is a sales customer relationship management product solution.

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