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Vermilion Booster Shots: Attractive bottom-fishing stocks

For investors looking for bottom-fishing candidates; stocks that are breaking downtrends, exhibiting ascending reaction lows, and showing stabilizing relative strength.
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ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Acadia Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of medicines focusing on central nervous system disorders. The company has a portfolio of product including its drug, NUPLAZID (pimavanserin), which has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of hallucinations and delusions associated with Parkinson's disease psychosis (PD Psychosis). NUPLAZID is a selective serotonin inverse agonist preferentially targeting 5-HT2A receptors with no appreciable affinity for dopaminergic, histaminergic, or muscarinic receptors.

ADTRAN Inc.

ADTRAN is a provider of networking and communications equipment. The company's solutions and services enable voice, data, video and internet communications across a variety of network infrastructures. The company has two segments: Network Solutions, which provides solutions supporting fiber-, copper- and coaxial-based infrastructures and a number of wireless solutions, lowering the overall cost to deploy services across a range of applications for Carrier and Cable/multiple-service operator networks; and Services and Support, which provides turn-key suit of services to help operators accelerate deployment of their networks including planning, engineering, construction, installation, test, and turn-up.

APA Corp.

Apache is an independent energy company that explores for, develops, and produces natural gas, crude oil, and natural gas liquids. The company had exploration and production operations in United States, Egypt, and offshore United Kingdom in the North Sea. The company also has exploration interests in Suriname. The company markets its United States crude oil production to main oil companies, marketing, and transportation companies, and refiners based on a West Texas Intermediate price or other regional pricing indices. The company has two international regions: The Egypt includes onshore conventional assets in Egypt's Western Desert. The North Sea region includes offshore assets based in United Kingdom.

Caesarstone Ltd.

Caesarstone is engaged in manufacturing engineered quartz surfaces. Co. sells its products under its Caesarstone brand in more than 50 countries, offering a spectrum of design options in the engineered quartz surface industry with different colors, textures and finishes. Its designs range from fine-grained patterns to coarse-grained color blends. Co.'s engineered quartz slabs measure 120 inches long by 56 1/2 inches wide and 130 inches long by 65 inches wide with a thickness of 1/2 of an inch, 3/4 of an inch or 1 1/4 inches. Engineered quartz surfaces consist of approximately 90% natural crushed quartz and approximately 10% polyester and other polymer resin and pigments.

Dick's Sporting Goods Inc.

Dick's Sporting Goods is an omni-channel sporting goods retailer offering sports equipment, apparel, footwear and accessories. The company also owns and operates Golf Galaxy, Field & Stream and other specialty concept stores, and Dick's Team Sports HQ, an all-in-one youth sports digital platform offering scheduling, communications and live scorekeeping through its GameChanger mobile apps, free league management services, custom uniforms and fan wear, and access to donations and sponsorships. The company provides products to its customers through its retail stores and online. The company is also involved in local communities, sponsoring teams in various sports.

Exxon Mobil Corporation

Exxon Mobil operates or markets products in United States and other countries through its divisions and affiliated companies. The company's business involves exploration for, and production of, crude oil and natural gas and manufacture, trade, transport and sale of crude oil, natural gas, petroleum products, petrochemicals and other products. In United States, the company's development activities are focused on the onshore United States, in the Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico and the Bakken oil play in North Dakota. Gas development activities are also focused on the Marcellus Shale of Pennsylvania and West Virginia, the Utica Shale of Ohio and the Haynesville Shale of East Texas and Louisiana.

GenMark Diagnostics Inc.

GenMark Diagnostics is a molecular diagnostics company focused on developing and commercializing multiplex molecular diagnostic solutions. The company develops and commercializes instruments and multiplex molecular panels based on its proprietary eSensor electrochemical detection technology. The company's technologies include: eSensor technology, which is based on the principles of deoxyribonucleic acid, hybridization and electrochemical detection; and digital microfluidics, which is a technique for moving small droplets of liquid using electrowetting, a process for making a surface hydrophobic or hydrophilic based on the application of a voltage to a surface.

McDonald's Corporation

McDonald's franchises and operates McDonald's restaurants. The company's menu includes hamburgers and cheeseburgers, Big Mac, Quarter Pounder with Cheese, Filet-O-Fish, several chicken sandwiches, Chicken McNuggets, wraps, fries, shakes, McFlurry desserts, sundaes, soft serve cones, pies, soft drinks, coffee, McCafe beverages and other beverages. The company's restaurants in the United States and various international markets provide a full or limited breakfast menu. Breakfast offerings may include Egg McMuffin, Sausage McMuffin with Egg, McGriddles, biscuit and bagel sandwiches and hotcakes. The restaurants also sells a variety of other products during limited-time promotions

MetLife Inc.

MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management. The company's segments include: United States; Asia; Latin America; Europe, the Middle East and Africa; and MetLife Holdings. In the United States, the company provides a variety of insurance and financial services products, including life, dental, disability, property and casualty, guaranteed interest, stable value and annuities to both individuals and groups. Outside the United States, the company provides life, medical, dental, credit and other accident and health insurance, as well as annuities, endowment and retirement and savings products to both individuals and groups.

Neophotonics

NeoPhotonics develops, manufactures and sells optoelectronic products that transmit, receive and switch high-speed digital optical signals for Cloud and data center internet content provider and telecom networks. The company focuses on products that operate at speed over distance, for 100 Gigabits per Second (G), 200G, and 400G and above data rates, such as at 600G and 800G. The company produces transmitter and receiver components and modules, as well as switching products, for 100G and beyond transmission over distances of two to 2,000 kilometers. The company integrates transmitter and receiver components into next generation pluggable transceiver modules.

Newfield Exploration Company

Newfield Exploration is an independent energy company engaged in the exploration, development and production of crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids. The company's principal areas of operation are the Anadarko and Arkoma basins of Oklahoma, the Williston Basin of North Dakota and the Uinta Basin of Utah. In addition, the company has oil producing assets offshore China. As of Dec 31 2017, the company had proved reserves of 680.0 million barrels of oil equivalent, which consisted of 250.0 million barrels of oil and condensate, 1,704.00 billion cubic feet of natural gas, and 146 million barrels of natural gas liquids.

ODP Corporation

Office Depot is a supplier of office products and services. The company operates through three reportable segments (or Divisions): Retail Division, which markets an assortment of merchandise through the company's chain of office supply stores throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands; Business Solutions Division, which sells nationally branded and the company's private branded products and services to customers in the U.S., Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Canada; and the CompuCom Division, which provides information technology outsourcing services and products to enterprise organizations in the U.S. and Canada.

PPG Industries Inc.

PPG Industries manufactures and distributes a range of paints, coatings and specialty materials. The company's business is comprised of two reportable business segments: Performance Coatings, which primarily supplies a variety of protective and decorative coatings, sealants and finishes along with paint strippers, stains and related chemicals, as well as transparencies and transparent armor; and Industrial Coatings, which primarily supplies a variety of protective and decorative coatings and finishes along with adhesives, sealants, metal pretreatment products, optical monomers and coatings, precipitated silicas and other specialty materials.

Quanterix Corporation

Quanterix is a life sciences company that has developed digital immunoassay platforms. The company's platforms are based on its proprietary digital Simoa detection technology. The company's Simoa bead-based and planar array platforms enable customers to detect protein biomarkers in low concentrations in blood, serum and other fluids that, in a number of cases, are undetectable using analog immunoassay technologies, and also allow researchers to define and validate the function of protein biomarkers that are only present in low concentrations. The company is focusing on protein detection. In addition, the company is developing its Simoa bead-based technology to detect nucleic acids in biological samples.

Range Resources Corporation

Range Resources is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an independent natural gas, natural gas liquids and oil company, engaged in the exploration, development and acquisition of natural gas and oil properties, located in the Appalachian and North Louisiana regions of the United States, primarily in the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania and the Lower Cotton Valley formation in Louisiana.

Signet Jewelers Limited

Theravance Biopharma Inc

Univar Solutions Inc.

Univar Solutions is a chemical and ingredient distributor and provider of services. The company purchases chemicals and ingredients from chemical producers worldwide to warehouse, repackage, blend, dilute, transport and sell those chemicals to various customer locations across various countries. The company's business is organized and managed in four geographical segments: Univar Solutions USA, Univar Solutions Canada, Univar Solutions Europe and the Middle East and Africa, and Univar Solutions Latin America, which includes developing businesses in Latin America (including Brazil and Mexico) and the Asia-Pacific region.

Viacom Inc. Class B

Viacom provides entertainment through television, film, digital media, live events, merchandise and solutions. The company operates through two segments: Media Networks, which provides entertainment content, services and related branded products for consumers in targeted demographics attractive to advertisers, content distributors and retailers through its media brands including Nickelodeon, MTV, BET, Comedy Central and Paramount Network; and Filmed Entertainment, which develops, produces, finances, acquires and distributes films, television programming and other entertainment content through its Paramount Pictures, Paramount Players, Paramount Animation and Paramount Television divisions.

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.

WildHorse Resource Development Corp

WildHorse Resource Development is engaged in the acquisition, exploitation, development and production of oil, natural gas and natural gas liquid (NGL) resources. The company's assets are characterized by concentrated acreage positions in East Texas and North Louisiana. In East Texas, the company primarily operates in Burleson, Lee and Washington Counties where it mainly targets the Eagle Ford Shale. In North Louisiana, the company operates in and around the Terryville Complex, where it mainly targets the overpressured Cotton Valley play. At Dec 31 2017, the company had 454,315,000 barrels of oil equivalent of estimated proved reserves. As of this date, the company's proved reserves were 75.0% oil and NGLs and 25.0% natural gas.

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