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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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Ally Financial Inc

Ally Financial is a digital-financial services and financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a range of financial services and insurance products to automotive dealerships and consumers. The company's online bank provides mortgage-lending, personal lending and a variety of deposit and other banking products, including savings, money-market and checking accounts, certificates of deposit, and individual retirement accounts. Additionally, the company provides securities-brokerage and investment-advisory services through Ally Invest. The company's corporate-finance business provides capital for equity sponsors and middle-market companies.

Applied Materials Inc.

Applied Materials provides manufacturing equipment, services and software to the semiconductor, display and related industries. The company's segments are: Semiconductor Systems, which develops, manufactures and sells a range of manufacturing equipment used to fabricate semiconductor chips; Applied Global Services, which provides integrated solutions to support equipment and fab performance and productivity; and Display and Adjacent Markets, which is comprised of products for manufacturing liquid crystal displays, organic light-emitting diodes and other display technologies for TVs, monitors, laptops, personal computers, electronic tablets, smart phones, and other consumer-oriented devices.

CarMax Inc.

CarMax is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged as a retailer of used vehicles. The company operates in two segments: CarMax Sales Operations, which sells used vehicles, purchases used vehicles from customers and other sources, sells related products and services, and arranges financing options for customers; and CarMax Auto Finance, which consists of finance operation that provides vehicle financing to customer buying retail vehicles from the company The company's products and services include retail merchandising, wholesale auctions, extended protection plans, reconditioning and service, and customer credit.

Cinemark Holdings Inc.

Cinemark Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company operates in the motion picture exhibition industry, with theatres in the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Guatemala, Bolivia, Curacao and Paraguay. The company provides a variety of content at its theatres and plays films from various genres, such as dramas, comedies and horror. The company monitors upcoming films and other content and works with film distributors to license the content. The company provides content in both 2-D and 3-D formats in its theatres, and in various locations, it provides either its exhibitor-branded large format, XD, or IMAX.

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Ichor Holdings Ltd.

JD.com Inc. Sponsored ADR Class A

MarineMax Inc.

MarineMax is a recreational boat and yacht retailer. Through its retail locations, the company sells new and used recreational boats, including pleasure and fishing boats. The company also sells related marine products, including engines, trailers, parts, and accessories. In addition, the company provides repair, maintenance, and slip and storage services; arranges related boat financing, insurance, and extended service contracts; provides boat and yacht brokerage sales; yacht charter services; and operates a yacht charter business in the British Virgin Islands. The company also owns Fraser Yachts Group S.R.L., a yacht brokerage and yacht services company with operations in various countries.

MaxLinear inc

MaxLinear is a provider of radio frequency, analog, and mixed-signal communications systems-on-chip solutions for the connected home, wired and wireless infrastructure, and industrial and multi-market applications. The company's products are integrated into a range of electronic devices, including cable, terrestrial, and satellite video set-top boxes and gateways, cable DOCSIS data and voice gateways, hybrid analog and digital televisions, direct broadcast satellite outdoor units, optical modules for data center, metro, and long-haul transport network applications, RF transceivers and modem solutions, wireline connectivity devices, and power management and interface products.

PRA Group Inc.

PRA Group is a financial and business services company with operations in the Americas, Europe, and Australia. The company's business is the purchase, collection and management of portfolios of nonperforming loans. The company purchases portfolios of nonperforming loans in two categories: Core, which focuses on purchasing and collecting nonperforming loans, which it purchased since either the credit grantor and/or other third-party collection agencies have been unsuccessful in collecting the full balance owed; and Insolvency, which consists of purchasing and collecting on nonperforming loan accounts where the customer is involved in a bankruptcy proceeding or the equivalent in some European countries.

Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc. Class A

Schnitzer Steel Industries is engaged as a recycler of ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal, including end-of-life vehicles, and a manufacturer of finished steel products. The company has two segments: Auto and Metals Recycling, which acquires and recycles ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal for sale to foreign and domestic metal producers, processors and brokers, and procures salvaged vehicles and sells serviceable used auto parts from these vehicles through a network of self-service auto parts stores; and Cascade Steel and Scrap, which produces a range of finished steel long products using ferrous recycled scrap metal and other raw materials.

Southern Company

Southern is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Alabama Power Company, Georgia Power Company, and Mississippi Power Company, the company is engaged in the generation, transmission, distribution, and purchase of electricity and the sale of electric service in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi. The company's Southern Power Company subsidiary develops, constructs, acquires, owns, and manages power generation assets, including renewable energy projects, and sells electricity at market-based rates in the wholesale market. The company's Southern Company Gas subsidiary is an energy services holding company whose primary business is the distribution of natural gas in Illinois, Georgia, Virginia, and Tennessee.

Ternium S.A. Sponsored ADR

Xcel Energy Inc.

Xcel Energy is a regulated electric and natural gas delivery company which serves customers in mid-western and western states, including portions of Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin. The company's reportable segments include: regulated electric utility, which generates, transmits and distributes electricity in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, Texas and New Mexico; regulated natural gas utility, which transports, stores and distributes natural gas primarily in portions of Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Michigan and Colorado; and other, which includes steam revenue and appliance repair services.

Zebra Technologies Corporation Class A

Zebra Technologies designs, manufactures, and sells a range of automatic identification and data capture products, including: mobile computers, barcode scanners and imagers, radio frequency identification devices (RFID) readers, printers for barcode labeling and personal identification, real-time location systems, related accessories and supplies, such as labels and other consumables, and software utilities and applications. The company has two segments: Asset Intelligence and Tracking, which includes barcode and card printing, supplies, services, location solutions, and retail solutions; and Enterprise Visibility and Mobility, which includes mobile computing, data capture, RFID, and services.

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Dave Nicoski

Ross LaDuke

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