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In this product we rank the most positive and negative domestic stocks, filter the symbols by market-cap and trading volume, and then divide the companies into sectors and groups. We then manually look through charts leadership/changes, bottoms-up/top-down ideas, short-term patterns that may have long-term significance, etc. We believe you will find this product valuable as significant price and relative moves begin in the daily charts.
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Amkor Technology Inc.

Amkor Technology is a provider of outsourced semiconductor packaging and test services, which include semiconductor wafer bump, wafer probe, wafer back-grind, package design, packaging, system-level and final test and drop shipment services. The company's Advanced Products include flip chip chip scale packages, wafer-level packages and flip chip ball grid array packages, while its Mainstream Products include leadframe packages, substrate-based wirebond packages and micro-electro-mechanical systems packages. The company provides its services to integrated device manufacturers, fabless semiconductor companies and contract foundries.

CEVA Inc.

CEVA is a licensor of signal processing platforms and artificial intelligence (AI) processors. The company partners with semiconductor companies and original equipment manufacturers to create devices for a range of end markets, including mobile, consumer, automotive, industrial and Internet-of-Things (IoT).Co.'s portfolio includes platforms for 5G baseband processing for handsets and RAN, end-to-end offerings for cellular IoT, front-end voice and speech recognition software and algorithms along with digital signal processors for voice enabled devices and AI assistants, imaging and computer vision for any camera-enabled device, and a family of self-contained AI processors.

Chegg Inc.

Chegg provides products and services that help students improve their outcomes throughout their educational journey. The company's offerings fall into two categories: Chegg Services, which encompasses all of its digital products and services such as Chegg Study, Chegg Writing, Chegg Tutors, Chegg Math Solver, and Other Services; and Required Materials, which primarily includes its print textbook and eTextbook offering. To deliver services to students, the company partners with a variety of third parties. The company sources print textbooks, eTextbooks, and supplemental materials directly or indirectly from publishers including Cengage Learning, Pearson, McGraw Hill, Sage Publications, and MacMillan.

Civeo Corp

Emcore Corp.

EMCORE is engaged in the linear fiber optic transmission technology that enabled the delivery of Cable TV directly on fiber, and is a provider of Mixed-Signal Optics products serving the broadband communications and aerospace and defense markets. The Mixed-Signal Optics technology is shared with the company's fiber optic gyros and inertial sensors to provide the aerospace and defense markets with navigations systems technology. The company's Indium Phosphide compound semiconductor wafer fabrication facility, and its quartz processing and sensor manufacturing facility support its manufacturing of quartz and fiber optic gyro products, as well as chip, laser, transmitter, and receiver products.

Eneti Inc

Fat Brands

FAT Brands is a multi-brand restaurant franchising company that develops, markets, and acquires fast casual restaurant concepts. The company's restaurant brands include: Fatburger, which serves a variety of customizable Fatburgers, Turkeyburgers, Chicken Sandwiches, Impossible? Burgers, and Veggieburgers, among other; Buffalo's Cafe, which provides chicken wings and homemade wing sauces, burgers, and wraps, among other; Ponderosa and Bonanza Steakhouse, which provide guests a buffet and an array of steak, chicken and seafood entrees; Hurricane Grill & Wings, which provides chicken wings, sauces, burgers, and bowls, among other; and Yalla Mediterranean, which focuses on Mediterranean cuisine.

General Finance Corp.

General Finance is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a rental services company providing portable storage, modular space and liquid containment solutions. The company's branch locations across North America and the Asia-Pacific provide a range of portable storage units, including its steel containers, office container, mobile office and modular space products and steel tanks that provide the company's customers a way to meet their temporary storage and space needs. The company's customers use its storage and space units for a variety of applications, including the temporary storage of materials, supplies, equipment, retail merchandise inventories, documents and liquid storage and for office use.

Global Ship Lease Inc. Class A

Global Ship Lease is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in the business of owning and chartering out containerships under fixed rate charters to container liner companies.

Horizon Global Corp.

Horizon Global is a designer, manufacturer and distributor of a variety of custom-engineered towing, trailering, cargo management and other related accessory products, serving the automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and servicers (OESs), industrial, aftermarket, retail and e-commerce channels. The company has the following operating segments: Horizon Americas, which is generally engaged in towing and trailering-related products sold through the automotive OEM and automotive OES, industrial, aftermarket, retail and e-commerce channels, primarily in North America; and Horizon Europe-Africa, which focuses their sales and manufacturing efforts outside of North and South America.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is a learning company focused on delivering integrated solutions that engage learners, educators and improve student outcomes. The company has two reporting segments: Education, which provides educational products, technology platforms and services that include print and digital content in the form of textbooks, digital courseware, instructional aids, educational assessment and intervention solutions; and Trade Publishing, which primarily develops, markets and sells consumer books in print and digital formats and licenses book rights to other publishers and electronic businesses in the U.S. and abroad.

International Seaways Inc.

Mohawk Industries Inc.

Mohawk Industries is a global flooring manufacturer for residential and commercial spaces around the world. The company has three segments: Global Ceramic, which designs, manufactures, sources, distributes and markets a line of ceramic, porcelain and natural stone tile products used for floor and wall applications; Flooring North America, which designs, manufactures, sources and distributes broadloom carpet, carpet tile, rugs and mats, carpet pad, laminate, medium-density fiberboard, luxury vinyl tile (LVT) and sheet vinyl; and Flooring Rest of the World, which designs, manufactures, sources and distributes laminate, LVT and sheet vinyl, wood flooring, broadloom carpet and carpet tile collections.

Mosaic Company

Mosaic is a producer and marketer of concentrated phosphate and potash crop nutrients. The company is organized into three reportable business segments: Phosphates, which owns and operates mines and production facilities in Florida that produce concentrated phosphate crop nutrients and phosphate-based animal feed ingredients, and processing plants in Louisiana that produce concentrated phosphate crop nutrients; Potash, which mines and processes potash in Canada and the United States and sells potash in North America and internationally; and Mosaic Fertilizantes, which produces and sells concentrated phosphates crop nutrients, phosphate-based animal feed ingredients and potash fertilizer.

Navios Maritime Holdings Inc.

Navios Maritime Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged in global, seaborne shipping and logistics with focus on the transport and transshipment of drybulk commodities including iron ore, coal and grain. Co.'s core fleet (excluding the Navios Logistics fleet), the average age of which is approximately 7.4 years, consists of a total of 61 vessels, aggregating approximately 6.3 million dwt. Navios Holdings owns 13 Capesize vessels (169,000-182,000 dwt), 14 modern Ultra Handymax vessels (50,000-59,000 dwt), 12 Panamax vessels (74,000-85,000 dwt) and one Handysize vessel.

nLight

nLight is a provider of high-power semiconductor and fiber lasers. The company's semiconductor lasers serve as the main building block of the company's products and are integrated with its OEM customers' systems used in applications in the industrial, microfabrication, and aerospace and defense markets. The company sells high-power semiconductor lasers with a range of power levels, wavelengths and output fiber sizes. The company also provides programmable, serviceable and high-power fiber lasers primarily for use in industrial, microfabrication, and aerospace and defense applications. The company's fiber lasers enable processing of materials.

Schneider Electric SE

Schneider Electric is engaged in energy management. Co. is organized into four areas: Buildings and Partner, Infrastructure, Industry and IT; and operates in four principal markets: non-residential & residential buildings, utilities & infrastructure, industry & machine manufacturers and data centers & networks. The non-residential and residential buildings market includes end-users, property developers, design firms, and systems integrators. The utilities and infrastructure market includes energy operators. The industries market serves end users and companies, and engineering firms. The data centers and networks contain servers that process and store digital data in secure rooms.

SharpSpring

SharpSpring is a cloud-based marketing technology company. The company's primary marketing automation platform uses features such as web tracking, lead scoring and automated workflow. The SharpSpring platform is designed and built as Software as Service (SaaS) offerings. The company's focus is on marketing automation tools that enable customers to interact with a lead from an early stage and nurture that potential customer using features until it becomes a qualified sales lead or customer. Also, a portion of customers utilizes the company's SharpSpring Mail+ product, which is a subset of the solution that is focused on email marketing while also including some of the functionality available in the company's offering.

Star Bulk Carriers Corp.

Star Bulk Carriers is an international company providing worldwide transportation solutions in the drybulk sector through its vessels-owning subsidiaries for a range of customers of major and minor bulk cargoes including iron ore, coal, grain, cement, fertilizer, along worldwide shipping routes. As of Dec 31 2016, Co. owned and operated a fleet of 73 vessels consisting primarily of Newcastlemax, Capesize as well as Kamsarmax, Ultramax and Supramax vessels with a carrying capacity between 52,055 dwt and 209,537 dwt. Co.'s vessels transport a range of major and minor bulk commodities, including ores, coal, grains and fertilizers, along worldwide shipping routes.

TechTarget Inc.

TechTarget is a provider of online content for buyers of enterprise information technology (IT) products and services, and a provider of purchase-intent marketing and sales services for enterprise technology vendors. The company's service offerings enable technology vendors to identify, reach and influence corporate IT decision makers actively researching specific IT purchases. The company categorizes its content offerings across a portfolio of market categories including: security; networking; storage; data center and virtualization technologies; Chief Information Officer /IT strategy; business applications and analytics; application architecture and development; and channel.

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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.

Twitter Inc.

Twitter provides products and services for people, organizations, advertisers, developers and platform and data partners. The company's product, Twitter, is a global platform for public self-expression and conversation in real time. The company's mobile application, Periscope, lets anyone broadcast and watch video live with others. The company's products and services for advertisers include Promoted Products such as Promoted Tweets, Promoted Accounts, and Promoted Trends. The company's products for developers and data partners provide tools and public application programming interfaces to build applications and other products that utilize Twitter data and syndicate and distribute Twitter content across their properties.

Vocera Communications Inc.

Vocera Communications is a provider of communication and workflow solutions focusing on mobile workers in healthcare, hospitality, energy, and other mobile work environments. The company's products, technology and services include: Vocera Communication System and Workflow System, which is comprised of a software platform that connects communication devices; Vocera Care Experience, which provides caregivers communication solutions that span the entire care continuum - before admission, during treatment and after discharge; and Services, which include Professional services, Software Maintenance and Technical support, Experience Innovation Network, and Vocera University.

Vuzix Corp

Vuzix is engaged in the designs, manufactures, marketing and sells of wearable display devices also referred to as head mounted displays, in the form of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) glasses. These devices include cameras, sensors, and a computer that enable the user to view, record and interact with video and digital content. The company's products are available with varying features and are provided as monocular display systems. The company's AR Smart Glasses have the capabilities of a smartphone such as cameras and computer processors that can allow applications to be run directly in the AR Smart Glasses, enabling cloud connected applications through a wireless link directly with the glasses.

Whole Earth Brands Inc (A)

Zovio

Zovio is a provider of postsecondary education services through its academic institutions. Ashford University? provides associate's, bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs primarily online and is comprised of five colleges: the Forbes School of Business and Technology?, the College of Education, the College of Health, Human Services and Science, the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Doctoral Studies. Ashford University's online courses are provided with weekly start dates throughout the year, except for two weeks total in late Dec. and early Jan. Courses typically run five to six weeks and all courses are offered in an asynchronous format.

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