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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.
Underlyings
Aerie Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Aerie Pharmaceuticals is an ophthalmic pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of therapies for the treatment of open-angle glaucoma and other diseases of the eye. The company has an approved product, Rhopressa? and advanced-stage product candidate, Roclatan?, which both are designed to reduce elevated intraocular pressure in patients with open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension. The company is also developing two preclinical sustained-release implants focused on retinal diseases, which include AR-13503 for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration and related diseases of the retina; and AR-1105, a preclinical dexamethasone steroid implant.

Aimmune Therapeutics Inc

Aimmune Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a therapeutic approach, including the development of product candidates, for the treatment of peanut and other food allergies. The company's Characterized Oral Desensitization ImmunoTherapy (CODIT?), is designed to desensitize patients to food allergens. The company's primary CODIT product candidate, AR101 is an investigational biologic for the treatment of patients with peanut allergy. The company is also exploring a product candidate designed to treat multi-nut allergy, including walnut allergy. The company is also conducting research and development activities for CODIT targeting other food allergies, including cow's milk allergy.

Allegion PLC

Ambarella Inc.

AT&T Inc.

AT&T is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of telecommunications, media and technology services. The company's Communications segment provides wireless and wireline telecom, video and broadband services. The company's WarnerMedia segment includes media and entertainment businesses that principally develop, produce and distribute feature films, television content, and other content globally; and operate digital media properties. The company's Latin America segment provides entertainment services in Latin America and wireless services in Mexico. The company's XANDR segment relies on using data from its customer relationships, to develop digital and video advertising that is relevant to consumers.

Automatic Data Processing Inc.

Automatic Data Processing is a provider of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions to employers, providing solutions to businesses of various sizes. The company's two reportable business segments are Employer Services, which provides a range of technology-based HCM solutions, including payroll services, benefits administration, talent management, HR management, workforce management, compliance services, insurance services and retirement services; and Professional Employer Organization, which provides clients with employment administration outsourcing solutions through a relationship in which employees who work for a client are co-employed by the company and the client.

Canon Inc. ADS

China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd.

CME Group Inc. Class A

CME Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company exchanges provides a range of global benchmark products across asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange (FX), agricultural, energy and metal commodities. The company provides futures and options on futures trading across asset classes through its subsidiary, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) Globex platform, cash and repo fixed income trading via BrokerTec, and cash and OTC FX trading via EBS. In addition, the company operates central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing, a division of CME. The company also provides optimization, reconciliation and processing services through TriOptima, Traiana and Reset.

Columbia Financial

Columbia Financial is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides financial services to businesses and consumers in its market areas. The company accepts deposits from the general public and uses those funds to originate a variety of loans, including multifamily and commercial real estate loans, commercial business loans, one-to four-family real estate loans, construction loans, home equity loans and advances, and other consumer loans. The company also provides title insurance through its wholly-owned subsidiary, First Jersey Title Services, Inc. Wealth management services are provided through a third party relationship.

Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Deciphera Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company. The company is engaged in commercial preparations to support the potential Untied States launch of ripretinib for the treatment of patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) who have received prior treatment with imatinib, sunitinib, and regorafenib. In addition, the company is studying ripretinib in its global pivotal Phase 3 study, INTRIGUE, in second-line GIST patients, comparing ripretinib to sunitinib. The company is developing other clinical-stage drug candidates, DCC-3014 and rebastinib, which target the macrophage tumor microenvironment. Additionally, the company is conducting preclinical investigational new drug-enabling studies with DCC-3116.

Edison International

Edison International is a holding company. Through its subsidiary, Southern California Edison Company (SCE), which is an investor-owned public utility, the company is primarily engaged in the business of supplying and delivering electricity to southern California. The company is also the parent company of Edison Energy Group, Inc., a holding company for Edison Energy, LLC, which is engaged in the business of providing energy services to commercial and industrial customers. SCE supplies electricity to its customers through transmission and distribution networks. Its transmission facilities include sub-transmission facilities and are located primarily in California but also in Nevada and Arizona.

EHealth Inc.

eHealth is a health insurance marketplace with a technology and service platform that provides consumer engagement, education and health insurance enrollment solutions. The company operates its business in two segments: Medicare, which markets a selection of Medicare-related health insurance plans, and to a lesser extent, ancillary products such as dental and vision insurance, to its Medicare-eligible customers; and Individual, Family and Small Business, which markets individual and family health insurance and small business health insurance plans through its ecommerce platforms (www.eHealth.com and www.eHealthInsurance.com).

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.

Essex Property Trust Inc.

Essex Property Trust operates as a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust. The company owns all of its interest in its real estate and other investments directly or indirectly through Essex Portfolio, L.P. (the Operating Partnership). The company is the sole general partner of the Operating Partnership. The company is engaged primarily in the ownership, operation, management, acquisition, development and redevelopment of primarily apartment communities, located along the West Coast. The company owns or has an interest in various operating apartment communities, consisting of apartment homes, operating commercial building and a development pipeline.

FirstCash Inc.

FirstCash is an operator of retail pawn stores in the United States and Latin America. The company has stores in the United States and the District of Columbia, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Colombia. The company's primary business is the operation of pawn stores, also known as pawnshops, which make pawn loans secured by personal property such as jewelry, electronics, tools, appliances, sporting goods and musical instruments. Pawn loans can be accessed by customers who often have limited access to credit products. Pawn stores also retail consumer products acquired through collateral forfeitures on forfeited pawn loans and direct purchases of such merchandise from the general public.

Intel Corporation

Intel is a data-centric company. The company's operating segments are: Data Center Group, which develops platforms for compute, storage, and network functions; Internet of Things Group, which facilitates its customers creating, storing, and processing data; Mobileye, which provides assistance and automation solutions; Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group, which provides memory and storage products based on Intel? Optane? technology and Intel? 3D NAND technology; Programmable Solutions Group, which provides programmable semiconductors; and Client Computing Group, which connects people to data, allowing each person to focus, create, and engage in ways that unlock their individual potential.

Kaiser Aluminum Corporation

Kaiser Aluminum manufactures and sells semi-fabricated specialty aluminum mill products. The company's aerospace and high strength products include heat treat plate and sheet, hard alloy extruded shapes, cold finish rod and bar, drawn tube and billet used for a variety of end uses in the aerospace and defense industries. Automotive Extrusions consist of extruded aluminum products for several North American automotive applications. The company's general engineering products consists of 6000-series alloy plate, sheet, rod, bar, tube, wire and standard extruded shapes. Other products consist of extruded, drawn and cast billet aluminum products for a range of North American industrial end uses.

Las Vegas Sands Corp.

Las Vegas Sands is a developer of destination properties (Integrated Resorts) that feature accommodations, gaming, entertainment and retail malls, convention and exhibition facilities, restaurants and other amenities. The company owns and operates Integrated Resorts in Asia and the United States. Through its ownership of Sands China Ltd., the company owns and operates properties including The Venetian Macao Resort Hotel, Sands Cotai Central, The Parisian Macao, The Plaza Macao and Four Seasons Hotel Macao, Cotai Strip, and the Sands Macao. In Singapore, the company owns and operates the Marina Bay Sands. The company's Las Vegas Operating Properties includes The Venetian Resort Las Vegas and the Sands Expo Center.

Molecular Templates

Molecular Templates is a clinical-stage company focused on the discovery and development of biologic therapeutic for cancer and other serious diseases. The company utilizes its proprietary biologic drug platform to design and generate engineered toxin bodies (ETBs). The company is developing ETBs for various targets, including CD20, CD38, HER2, PD-L1, CTLA-4, SLAMF-7, and CD45. CD20 is central to B cell malignancies and is clinically validated as a target for the treatment of lymphomas and autoimmune disease. CD38 has been validated as a clinical target in the treatment of various myeloma. PD-L1 is central to immune checkpoint pathways and is a target expressed in a variety of solid tumor cancers.

Novartis AG ADS

Ormat Technologies Inc.

Ormat Technologies is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in the geothermal and recovered energy business. The company's segments include: Electricity, which develops, builds, owns and operates geothermal and recovered energy-based power plants in the U.S. and geothermal power plants in other countries and sells the electricity it generates; and Product, which designs, manufactures and sells equipment for geothermal and recovered energy-based electricity generation and remote power units and provides services relating to the engineering, procurement, construction, operation and maintenance of geothermal, Solar photovoltaic and recovered energy-based power plants.

Sanderson Farms Inc.

Sanderson Farms is a poultry processing company engaged in the production, processing, marketing and distribution of frozen chicken products, including processed and minimally prepared chicken. The company sells ice-packed, chill-packed, bulk-packed and frozen chicken, in whole, cut-up and boneless form to retailers, distributors, and casual dining operators, and to customers who resell frozen chicken into export markets. The company operates through: Sanderson Farms, Inc. (Production Division), which is engaged in the production of chickens to the broiler stage; and Sanderson Farms, Inc. (Processing Division), which is engaged in the processing, sale and distribution of chicken products.

Seagate Technology PLC

Tenaris S.A. ADS

Toyota Motor ADS

UDR Inc.

UDR is a real estate investment trust that owns, operates, acquires, renovates, develops, redevelops, disposes of, and manages multifamily apartment communities generally located in markets located throughout the United States. In addition, the company has an ownership interest in completed or to-be-completed apartment homes through unconsolidated joint ventures or partnerships, including apartment homes owned by entities in which the company hold preferred equity investments. The company's operating partnership, United Dominion Realty, L.P., has a consolidated real estate portfolio that includes communities located in several markets.

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.

Wells Fargo & Company

Wells Fargo & Company is a financial and a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance. The company provides consumer financial products and services including checking and savings accounts, credit and debit cards, and automobile, student, mortgage and home equity and small business lending, as well as financial planning, private banking, investment management, and fiduciary services. The company also provides financial solutions including commercial loans and lines of credit, letters of credit, asset-based lending, trade financing, treasury management, and investment banking services.

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