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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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Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Advanced Micro Devices is a semiconductor company. The company primarily provides x86 microprocessors, as standalone devices or as incorporated into an accelerated processing unit, chipsets, graphics processing units (GPUs), data center and personnel GPUs, and development services; server and embedded processors, semi-custom System-on-Chip products, development services and technology for game consoles. The company also licenses portions of its intellectual property portfolio. The company's segments are: Computing and Graphics, which consists of desktop, notebooks, commercial, and chipsets products; and Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom, which includes server processors, and embedded P\processors products.

Agilent Technologies Inc.

Agilent Technologies is engaged in life sciences, diagnostics and applied chemical markets. The company's segments are: Life Sciences and Applied Markets Business, which provides instruments and software that enable customers to identify, quantify and analyze the physical and biological properties of substances and products; Diagnostics and Genomics Business, which includes the genomics, nucleic acid contract manufacturing and research and development, pathology, companion diagnostics, reagent partnership and biomolecular analysis businesses; and Agilent CrossLab Business, which spans the entire lab with its consumables and services portfolio to improve customer outcomes.

Agnico Eagle Mines Limited

Agnico-Eagle Mines is a gold mining company with mining operations in Canada, Mexico and Finland. Co. earns a proportion of its revenues from the production and sale of gold in both dore bar and concentrate form. The remainder of revenue and cash flow is generated by the production and sale of byproduct metals. The revenue from byproduct metals is mainly generated by production at the LaRonde mine in Canada (silver, zinc, copper and lead) and the Pinos Altos mine in Mexico (silver).

Altice USA Inc. Class A

Altice USA is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides broadband communications and video services and markets its services primarily under two brands: Optimum, in the New York metropolitan area, and Suddenlink, principally in markets in the south-central United States. The company delivers broadband, video, and telephony services to the residential and business customers. The company also provides fiber connectivity, bandwidth and managed services to enterprise customers through its Lightpath business (also marketed as Altice Business) and the company provides advertising time and services to advertisers. The company has launched Altice Mobile, a mobile offering, to consumers across its footprint.

AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. ADS

ANSYS Inc.

ANSYS develops and markets engineering simulation software and services used by engineers, designers, researchers and students across a spectrum of industries and academia, including aerospace and defense, automotive, electronics, semiconductors, energy, materials and chemical processing, turbomachinery, consumer products, healthcare, and sports. The company focuses on the development of solutions that enable users to analyze designs directly on the desktop, providing a platform for product development, from design concept to final-stage testing and validation. The company's product portfolio include ANSYS Workbench?, a framework upon which the company's suite of engineering simulation technologies is built.

Apple Inc.

Apple designs, manufactures and markets smartphones, personal computers, tablets, wearables and accessories, and sells a variety of related services. The company's products include: iPhone; Mac; iPad; and wearables, home and accessories, which includes AirPods?, Apple TV?, Apple Watch?, Beats? products, HomePod?, iPod touch? and other Apple-branded and third-party accessories. The company's services include: digital content stores and streaming services; AppleCare, which includes AppleCare + (AC+) and the AppleCare Protection Plan; iCloud, which is the company's cloud service; licensing; and other services, which include Apple Arcade?, Apple Card?, Apple News+, and Apple Pay, a cashless payment service.

Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc

Arcturus Therapeutics is an emerging biopharmaceutical company primarily focused on the development and commercialization of a proprietary oral drug candidate, MDX, to treat ADHD and other cognitive dysfunctions including Fragile X Syndrome. The most common available treatments for ADHD are stimulants that increase the brain chemicals dopamine and norepinephrine. Stimulants have significant side effects, and are classified as controlled substances which have significant potential for misuse, abuse and addiction. MDX is not a stimulant, and works with a different mechanism of action. MDX is a proprietary, combined rapid onset release formulation of the chemical Pyridoxine Pyroglutamate.

Barrick Gold Corporation

Barrick Gold is engaged in the production and sale of gold, as well as related activities such as exploration and mine development. Co. also produces copper and hold interests in oil and gas properties located in Canada. Co.'s mining operations are concentrated in three regional business units: North America, South America and Australia Pacific. Co. also hold a 73.9% equity interest in African Barrick Gold plc that owns gold mines and exploration properties in Africa. Co.'s copper business unit contains producing copper mines located in Chile and Zambia; and a mine under construction located in Saudi Arabia.

Bilibili Inc. Sponsored ADR Class Z

Boston Beer Company Inc. Class A

Boston Beer Company is an alcoholic beverage company and a craft brewer. The company is engaged in the business of selling alcohol beverages throughout the United States and in selected international markets. The company's brands include Samuel Adams?, Twisted Tea?, Truly Hard Seltzer?, Wild Leaf? Hard Tea and Tura? Alcoholic Kombucha. The company produces alcohol beverages including malt beverages, hard cider and hard seltzer at the company-owned breweries and its cidery and under contract arrangements at other brewery locations. The company sells its products mainly in the United States, but also has markets in Canada, Europe, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, the Pacific Rim, Mexico, and Central and South America.

CACI International Inc Class A

CACI International is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of information solutions and services to the United States government. The company's information solutions and services support national security missions and government modernization/transformation for intelligence, defense, and federal civilian customers. The company provides its services and solutions to its domestic customers in the following market areas, among others: business systems, command and control, communications, cyber security, enterprise information technology (IT), health, and intelligence services. The company's international operations provide a mix of IT services and proprietary data and software products.

Cadence Design Systems Inc.

Cadence Design Systems provides solutions that enable its customers to design electronic products. The company's products offerings include software, hardware, services and reusable integrated circuit (IC) design blocks, which are referred to as intellectual property (IP). The company provides maintenance for its software, hardware, and IP product offerings. The company combines its products and technologies into categories related to design activities: Functional Verification (including hardware for emulation and prototyping); Digital IC Design and Signoff; Custom IC Design and Simulation; System Interconnect and Analysis (printed circuit boards and IC package); and IP (includes design IP and verification IP).

Centene Corporation

Centene is an insurance holding company. The company's Managed Care segment provides health plan coverage to individuals through government subsidized programs. The company also provides a variety of individual, small group, and large group commercial healthcare products, both to employers and directly to members in the Managed Care segment. The company's Specialty Services segment consists of the company's specialty companies prviding healthcare services and products to state programs, correctional facilities, healthcare organizations, employer groups and other commercial organizations, as well as to its own subsidiaries. The Specialty Service segment also includes the Government Contracts business.

Chewy Inc. Class A

Chewy is a pure play e-commerce business geared toward pet products for dogs, cats, fish, birds, small pets, horses, and reptiles. The company serves its customers through its retail website, www.chewy.com, and its mobile applications and focuses on delivering exceptional customer service, a large selection of high-quality pet food, treats and supplies, price, convenience (including Chewy's Autoship subscription program), fast shipping, and hassle-free returns.

CNX Resources Corporation

CNX Resources is an independent oil and gas company focused on the exploration, development, production, gathering, processing and acquisition of natural gas properties primarily in the Appalachian Basin. The company's operations are centered on unconventional shale formations, primarily the Marcellus Shale and Utica Shale. The company operates, develops and explores for natural gas in Appalachia (Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and Virginia).

CytomX Therapeutics Inc.

CytomX Therapeutics is clinical-stage, oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company with a class of investigational antibody therapeutics based on its Probody? technology platform the treatment of cancer. The company uses its platform to create proprietary cancer immunotherapies against clinically-validated targets. The company's two programs, CX-072, a wholly owned PD-L1-targeting Probody therapeutic and CX-2009, wholly owned CD166-targeting Probody drug conjugate. Both CX-072 and CX-2009 are part of PROCLAIM (Probody Clinical Assessment in Man), an international umbrella clinical trial program that provides clinical trial sites with access to the company's novel therapies under one central protocol.

DANAHER CORPORATION

Danaher designs, manufactures and markets medical, industrial and commercial products and services. The company's segments include: Life Sciences, which provides research tools to study genes, proteins, metabolites and cells, in order to understand the causes of disease, identify therapies and test drugs and vaccines; Diagnostics, which provides analytical instruments, reagents, consumables, software and services that hospitals, physicians' offices, reference laboratories and other critical care settings use to diagnose disease and make treatment decisions; and Environmental and Applied Solutions, which provides products and services to protect resources and global food and water supplies.

DSP Group Inc.,

DSP Group is a provider of wireless and audio chipsets for a range of smart-enabled devices. The company provides a portfolio of wireless chipsets, including DECT/CAT-iq, ULE, Wi-Fi, PSTN, HDClear?, video and Voice-over-IP (VoIP) technologies. The company is engaged in low-power integrated circuits for audio and voice signal processing applications. The company enables converged voice, audio, video and data connectivity across mobile, consumer and enterprise products, from mobile phones, Internet of Things and wearable devices, connected multimedia screens and home automation and security to cordless phones, VoIP systems and home gateways.

EQT Corporation

EQT is a natural gas production company with operations focus in the Marcellus and Utica shales of the Appalachian Basin.

F5 Networks Inc.

F5 Networks is a provider of multi-cloud application services, which enable its customers to develop, deploy, operate, secure, and govern applications in any architecture, from on-premises to the public cloud. The company's application services are available as cloud-based, software-as-a-service, and software-only solutions supported for multi-cloud environments. In connection with its solutions, the company provides a range of services, including consulting, training, installation, maintenance, and other technical support services. The company's products and solutions include hardware platforms, software and software-as-a-service platforms, cloud-based managed services, and service provider solutions.

Fabrinet

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.

Inphi Corporation

Inphi is a provider of analog and mixed signal semiconductor solutions for the communications and datacenter markets. The company's analog and mixed signal semiconductor solutions provide an interface between analog and mixed signals and digital information in systems such as telecommunications transport systems, enterprise networking equipment and datacenters. The company has a range of products in its portfolio, including products that have commercially shipped, products for which the company has shipped engineering samples and products under development, that perform a range of functions such as amplifying, encoding, multiplexing, demultiplexing, and retiming signals at speeds up to 400 Gbps.

Inseego Corp

Inseego designs and develops mobile, Internet of Things and cloud solutions for enterprise verticals, service providers and small and medium-sized businesses. The company's range of products includes 4G and 5G mobile hotspots, wireless gateways and routers for IoT applications, 4G LTE hotspots and USB modems, integrated telematics and mobile tracking hardware devices. The company's software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery platforms include its Ctrack platforms, which provide fleet, vehicle, aviation, asset and other telematics applications and its Device Management Solutions, a hosted SaaS platform that helps organizations manage the selection, deployment and spend of their wireless assets.

Iovance Biotherapeutics Inc

Iovance Biotherapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of cancer immunotherapy products. The company's main product candidate, LN-144 for metastatic melanoma, is an autologous adoptive cell therapy utilizing tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, which are T cells derived from patients' tumors. The ongoing studies include LN-145 for metastatic or persistent cervical carcinoma and LN-145 for recurrent and/or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.

Liberty Broadband Corp. Class A

Limelight Networks

Limelight Networks provides digital content delivery, online video delivery, cloud security, computing, and cloud storage services. The company's services platform includes a private network, software, and support services. The services the company provides help its customers utilize and deliver digital content to a variety of digital devices. These services provide features to enable digital workflows for live and on-demand video publishing, online gaming, content distribution, and website and web application acceleration. The company's services incorporate content and application security, video transformation, distributed storage functionality, and the analytics and reporting associated with them.

Liquidia Corporation

Liquidia Technologies is a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of the company's proprietary PRINT? technology to transform the lives of patients. The company is focused on the development of two product candidates for which it holds commercial rights: LIQ861, which is for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension, a disease caused by the hardening and narrowing of the pulmonary arteries that can lead to right heart failure and eventually death; and LIQ865, which is an injectable, sustained-release formulation of bupivacaine for the management of local post-operative pain a surgical procedure.

Livongo Health

Livongo Health is engaged in Applied Health Signals, which is involved in the management of chronic conditions. The company's platform provides cellular-connected devices, supplies, informed coaching, and data science-enabled insights and facilitates access to medications across multiple chronic conditions. The company provides the following solutions: Livongo for diabetes; Livongo for hypertension; Livongo for prediabetes and weight management; and Livongo for behavioral health by myStrength.

Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft is a technology company. The company develops and supports software, services, devices, and solutions. The company provides an array of services, including cloud-based solutions as well as solution support and consulting services. The company also delivers relevant online advertising. The company's products include operating systems; cross-device productivity applications; server applications; business solution applications; desktop and server management tools; software development tools; and video games. The company also designs, manufactures, and sells devices, including personal computers, tablets, gaming and entertainment consoles, other devices, and related accessories.

Molina Healthcare Inc.

Molina Healthcare is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides managed healthcare services under the Medicaid and Medicare programs, and through the state insurance marketplaces. The company has two segments: Health Plans and Other. The company's health plans are operated by its respective wholly owned subsidiaries in those states, each of which is licensed as a health maintenance organization. The company's business includes: Medicaid, which provides health care and long-term care services and support to low-income Americans; and Medicare, which provides eligible persons age 65 and over and some disabled persons with a variety of hospital, medical insurance, and prescription drug benefits.

Monolithic Power Systems Inc.

Monolithic Power Systems is a fabless semiconductor company. The company designs, develops and markets power solutions for systems found in consumer, computing and storage, automotive, industrial, communications and consumer applications. The company's primary product families include the following: Direct Current (DC) to DC products, which are used to convert and control voltages within a range of electronic systems such as portable electronic devices, wireless Local Area Network access points, computers, and monitors, automobiles and medical equipment; and Lighting Control Products, which include lighting control integrated circuits that are used in backlighting and general illumination products.

Nasdaq Inc.

Nasdaq is a holding company. Nasdaq is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company manages, operates and provides its products and services in business segments: Market Services, which includes equity derivative trading and clearing, cash equity trading, fixed income and commodities trading and clearing and trade management services businesses; Corporate Services, which includes listing services and corporate solutions businesses; Information Services, which includes market data, index, and investment data and analytics; and Market Technology, which provides and delivers solutions across the trade lifecycle via the Nasdaq Financial Framework.

National Beverage Corp.

National Beverage is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company develops, produces, markets and sells a range of sparkling waters, juices, energy drinks and carbonated soft drinks. The company's brands consist of beverages for active and health-conscious consumer (Power+ Brands) including sparkling waters, energy drinks, and juices. The company's portfolio of Power+ Brands includes LaCroix?, LaCroix Curate?, LaCroix NiCola? and Shasta? Sparkling Water products; Rip It? energy drinks and shots; and Everfresh?, Everfresh Premier Varietals? and Mr. Pure? 100% juice and juice-based products. Additionally, the company produces and distributes carbonated soft drinks including Shasta? and Faygo? brands.

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.

NovaGold Resources Inc.

NovaGold Resources is a mineral exploration company engaged in the exploration and development of gold and copper mineral properties. Co.'s primary focus is on the Donlin Gold project in Alaska. The Donlin Gold project is owned and operated by Donlin Gold LLC, a limited liability company that is owned equally by wholly owned subsidiaries of Co. and Barrick Gold Corporation. Co. also has an interest in the Galore Creek copper-gold-silver project in British Columbia, Canada. The Galore Creek project is held by a partnership owned equally by NOVAGOLD Canada Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Co., and by Teck Resources Limited.

NVIDIA Corporation

NVIDIA engages in graphics processing unit (GPU)-based visual computing and accelerated computing platforms. The company has two segments, GPU and Tegra Processor, which are based on a single underlying architecture. The company's GPU product brands are aimed at markets including GeForce for gamers; Quadro for designers; Tesla and DGX for artificial intelligence data scientists and big data researchers; and GRID for cloud-based visual computing users. The company's Tegra brand integrates an entire computer onto a single chip, and incorporates GPUs and multi-core CPUs to drive supercomputing for autonomous robots, drones, and cars, as well as for game consoles and mobile gaming and entertainment devices.

Pluristem Therapeutics Inc

Pluristem Therapeutics is a developer of placenta-based cell therapy product candidates for the treatment of multiple ischemic, inflammatory and hematologic conditions. The company's product candidates include: PLX-PAD, which is in a multinational clinical trial in critical limb ischemia, and in a multinational clinical trial in recovery following surgery for hip fracture; PLX-R18, which is under development in the United States for acute radiation syndrome, as well as in a trial in the United States and Israel for incomplete hematopoietic recovery following hematopoietic cell transplantation; and PLX-Immune, which is under pre-clinical development for treatment of certain types of human cancer.

Repro Med Systems

SHOPIFY INC.

Shopify provides a cloud-based commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses. Merchants use its software to run their business across all of their sales channels, including web, tablet and mobile storefronts, social media storefronts, and brick-and-mortar and pop-up shops. Co. provides a platform for merchants to create an omni-channel experience that helps showcase the merchant's brand and grow its business. Co.'s platform provides merchants with a single view of their business and customers across all of their sales channels and enables them to manage products and inventory, process orders and payments, build customer relationships and leverage analytics and reporting.

Synopsys Inc.

Synopsys is a supplier of electronic design automation (EDA) software that engineers use to design and test integrated circuits. The company also provides semiconductor intellectual property products, which are pre-designed circuits that engineers use as components of larger chip designs rather than designing those circuits themselves. The company provides software and hardware used to validate the electronic systems that incorporate chips and the software that runs on them. The company is also a provider of software tools and services that improve the security and quality of software code in a variety of industries, including electronics, financial services, media, automotive, medicine, energy and industrials.

SYROS PHARMACEUTICALS

Syros Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the non-coding regulatory region of the genome to develop a new wave of medicines that control the expression of genes. The company's primary product candidates are: SY-1425, a selective retinoic acid receptor alpha agonist that is used to treat acute myeloid leukemia patients; SY-1365, a selective inhibitor of cyclin-dependent kinase 7 (CDK7), that is being evaluated in a Phase 1 clinical trial in patients with advanced solid tumors; and SY-5609, a CDK7 inhibitor that can be administered orally, which is being evaluated in investigational new drug application, enabling preclinical studies.

Teradyne Inc.

Teradyne is a global supplier of automation equipment for test and industrial applications. The company designs, develops, manufactures and sells automatic test systems used to test semiconductors, wireless products, data storage and electronics systems in the consumer electronics, wireless, automotive, industrial, computing, communications, and aerospace and defense industries. The company's automatic test equipment and industrial automation products and services include: semiconductor test systems; defense/aerospace test instrumentation and systems, storage test systems, and circuit-board test and inspection systems; industrial automation products; and wireless test systems.

Tradeweb Markets Inc. Class A

Tradeweb Markets is a leader in building and operating electronic marketplaces for its global network of clients across the financial ecosystem. The company's network is comprised of clients across the institutional, wholesale and retail client sectors, including many of the large global asset managers, hedge funds, insurance companies, central banks, banks and dealers, proprietary trading firms and retail brokerage and financial advisory firms, as well as regional dealers. The company's marketplaces facilitate trading across a range of asset classes, including rates, credit, money markets and equities. The company is a global company serving clients in 62 countries with offices in North America, Europe and Asia.

Tyler Technologies Inc.

Tyler Technologies provides information management solutions and services for the public sector. The company has two segments: Enterprise Software, which provides public sector entities with software systems and services to meet their information technology and automation needs for back-office functions such as financial management and education, courts and justice, planning, regulatory and maintenance, data and insights and case management and business management processes; and Appraisal and Tax, which provides systems and software that automate the appraisal and assessment of real and personal property as well as property appraisal outsourcing services for governments and taxing authorities.

Veeva Systems Inc Class A

Veeva Systems provides industry cloud solutions for the life sciences industry. Veeva Commercial Cloud is a suite of multichannel customer relationship management applications, a commercial data warehouse, territory allocation and alignment applications, master data management applications and customer reference and data and services. Veeva Vault is the company's suite of cloud-based, enterprise content management applications that address the content management requirements for the company's customers'commercial functions, including medical and sales and marketing, and key research and development functions, including clinical, regulatory, quality, and, when available, safety.

Zynex

Zynex, through its subsidiary, Zynex Medical, Inc. (ZMI), designs, manufactures and markets medical devices that treat chronic and acute pain, as well as activate and exercise muscles for rehabilitative purposes with electrical stimulation. The ZMI devices are portable, battery operated and include an electrical pulse generator which is connected to the body via electrodes. ZMI also designs, manufactures and markets the NeuroMove product. The NeuroMove contains electromyography and electric stimulation technology that is primarily used for stroke, spinal cord and traumatic brain injury rehabilitation, by reaching parts of the brain to re-connect with muscles, also known as neuroplasticity.

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