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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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Arch Resources Inc. Class A

Arch Coal is a coal producer. The company's main business is the production of thermal and metallurgical coal from surface and underground mines located throughout the United Staets, for sale to utility, industrial and steel producers both in the United States and around the world. The company's segments are based on two lines of business, metallurgical coal and thermal coal, and may include a number of mine complexes. The company's segments are: the Powder River Basin, containing primary thermal operations in Wyoming; the Metallurgical, containing metallurgical operations in West Virginia; and the Other Thermal, containing supplementary thermal operations in Colorado and Illinois.

BBQ Holdings Inc

Famous Dave's of America develops, owns, operates and franchises restaurants under the name Famous Dave's. The company's prototypical design includes a designated bar, an exterior smokestack, a separate entrance for its To Go business and a patio. Each restaurant features a selection of hickory-smoked and off-the-grill barbecue products, side items, and handmade desserts. To complement its entree and appetizer items, the company provides six regional barbeque sauces: Rich & Sassy?, Texas Pit?, Georgia Mustard?, Devil's Spit?, Sweet and Zesty? and Wilbur's Revenge?.

Blackstone Group Inc.

Blackstone Group, together with its subsidiaries, is a global manager of private capital. The alternative asset management business includes the management of private equity funds, real estate funds, real estate investment trusts, funds of hedge funds, hedge funds, credit-focused funds, collateralized loan obligation vehicles, separately managed accounts and registered investment companies (collectively referred to as the Blackstone Funds). The company's business is organized into four segments: Real Estate, Private Equity, Hedge Fund Solutions and Credit.

Crocs Inc.

Crocs is engaged in the design, development, marketing, distribution, and sale of casual lifestyle footwear and accessories for men, women, and children. The company provides a variety of footwear products including sandals, flips and slides, which the company collectively refer to as sandals, shoes, and boots. The majority of shoes within the company's collection contains Croslite? material. The company's wholesale channel includes domestic and international multi-brand retailers, e-tailers, and distributors; the company's retail channel consists of company-operated stores; and the company's e-commerce channel includes company-operated e-commerce sites and third-party marketplaces.

Domino's Pizza Inc.

Domino's Pizza is a pizza company. The company is primarily engaged in the following business activities: retail sales of food through the company-owned Domino's Pizza stores; sales of food, equipment and supplies to the company-owned and franchised Domino's Pizza stores through the company-owned supply chain centers; receipt of royalties, advertising contributions and fees from United States Domino's Pizza franchisees; and receipt of royalties and fees from international Domino's Pizza franchisees. The company's menu features pizza products with varying sizes and crust types. The company's store also provides oven-baked sandwiches, pasta, boneless chicken and wings, bread side items, desserts and soft drink products.

EBay Inc.

eBay is a global commerce provider, which includes its Marketplace, StubHub and Classifieds platforms. The company's Marketplace platforms include its online marketplace located at www.ebay.com, its localized counterparts and the eBay suite of mobile apps. The company's StubHub platforms include its online ticket platform located at www.stubhub.com, its localized counterparts and the StubHub mobile apps. These platforms connect fans with their favorite sporting events, shows and artists and enable them to buy and sell tickets whenever and wherever they want. The company's Classifieds platforms include a collection of brands such as mobile.de, Kijiji, Gumtree, Marktplaats, eBay Kleinanzeigen and others.

Etsy Inc.

Etsy provides sellers a marketplace with buyers along with a range of seller tools and services that are specifically designed to help its creative entrepreneurs generate more sales and scale their businesses. The company's platform includes the Etsy and Reverb Holdings, Inc. (Reverb) online marketplaces, its seller tools and services, its engaged sellers and buyers, and its technology. The company's primary marketplace, Etsy.com, is where buyers come to discover a selection of goods that are hard to find elsewhere. Reverb, the company's subsidiary, operates as a standalone marketplace. This two-sided marketplace connects buyers and sellers of new, used, and vintage musical gear from all over the world.

Lifeway Foods Inc.

Lifeway Foods produces and markets probiotic-based products and natural foods. The company's primary product is kefir, a cultured dairy product that is a tart and tangy. The company's product are: drinkable kefir, which is sold in a variety of organic and non-organic sizes, flavors, and types, including low fat, non-fat, whole milk, protein, BioKefir (a 3.5 oz. kefir with additional probiotic cultures), and Kefir with oats; european-style soft cheeses; cream and other; ProBugs, which is a line of kefir products in drinkable, frozen, and freeze dried formats; other dairy, which includes Cupped Kefir and Icelandic Skyr, a line of strained kefir and yogurt products in resealable cups; and frozen kefir.

Luna Innovations

Luna Innovations is engaged in optical technology, providing performance fiber optic test, measurement and control products for the telecommunications and photonics industries and distributed fiber optic sensing products for industries utilizing composite and other materials. The company's segments are: Products and Licensing, which develops, manufactures and markets distributed fiber optic sensing products, as well as communications test products; and Technology Development, which performs applied research towards developing new sensors including sensors for the purpose of corrosion, temperature, strain, pressure, structural health, and chemical detection.

Mastech Digital

Mastech Digital is a provider of Digital Transformation Information Technology (IT) Services. The company provides data management and analytics services; other digital transformation services around Salesforce.com and Digital Learning; and IT staffing services for both digital and mainstream technologies. The company's segments include: Data and Analytics Services, which is marketed under the Mastech InfoTrellis brand and provides capabilities in delivering data management and analytics services to customers; and IT Staffing Services, which focuses on contract IT staffing and digital transformation services and also provides permanent placement services for its clients.

Moelis & Co. Class A

Moelis & Company is a holding company. The company operates and controls all of the business and affairs of Moelis & Company Group LP and its operating entity subsidiaries indirectly through its equity interest in Moelis & Company Group GP LLC. The company's activities as an investment banking advisory firm constitute a single business segment providing clients, including corporations, governments and financial sponsors, a range of advisory services with a focus across all main industries in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), recapitalizations and restructurings and other corporate finance matters.

MoneyGram International Inc.

MoneyGram International is engaged in in cross-border peer-to-peer (P2P) payments and money transfers. In addition to money transfers, the company's offerings include bill payment services, money order services and official check processing. The company manages its business primarily through two segments: Global Funds Transfer, which provides money transfer services and bill payment services primarily to unbanked and underbanked consumers; and Financial Paper Products, which provides money orders to consumers through its agents and financial institutions located throughout the United States and Puerto Rico and provides official check outsourcing services for financial institutions across the United States.

Papa John's International Inc.

Papa John's International operates and franchises pizza delivery and carryout restaurants and, in certain international markets, dine-in and delivery restaurants. The company has four reportable segments: domestic the company-owned restaurants, which engages in retail sales of pizza and side items; North America commissaries, which includes the operations of the company's regional dough production and product distribution centers; North America franchising, which includes the company's franchise sales and support activities; and international operations, which includes the distribution sales to franchised Papa John's restaurants in the United Kingdom and its franchise sales and support activities.

Peabody Energy Corporation

Peabody Energy is a coal company, engaged in the mining of thermal coal for sale primarily to electric utilities and metallurgical coal for sale to industrial customers. The company owns interests in several coal mining operations located in the U.S. and Australia. The company has a majority interest in several of those mining operations and an equity interest in Middlemount Coal Pty Ltd. (Middlemount), which owns the Middlemount Mine in Queensland, Australia. In addition to its mining operations, the company markets and brokers coal from other coal producers, both as principal and agent, and trade coal and freight-related contracts through trading and business offices in the U.S., Australia, China, and the U.K.

Star Group L.P.

Star Group is a home heating oil and propane distributor and services provider. The company sells home heating oil and propane to full service residential and commercial customers and on a delivery only basis. The company also sells gasoline and diesel fuel to customers. The company installs, maintains, and repairs heating and air conditioning equipment and to a lesser extent provides these services outside its heating oil and propane customer base including service contracts for natural gas and other heating systems. The company conducts its business through an operating subsidiary, Petro Holdings, Inc., utilizing several local brand names, such as Petro Home Services, Meenan, and Griffith Energy Services, Inc.

Starbucks Corporation

Starbucks is a roaster, marketer and retailer of coffee. The company's segments are: Americas, which is inclusive of the United States, Canada, and Latin America; International, which is inclusive of China, Japan, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, and Africa; and Channel Development. The company's Americas and International segments include both company-operated and licensed stores. The company's Channel Development segment includes roasted whole bean and ground coffees, Seattle's Best Coffee?, Starbucks- and Teavana-branded single-serve products, a variety of ready-to-drink beverages, and other products sold worldwide outside of the company's company-operated and licensed stores.

Wingstop Inc.

Wingstop is a franchisor and operator of restaurants that focuses on cooked-to-order, hand-sauced and tossed chicken wings. The company provides its guests several flavors on its bone-in and boneless chicken wings and tenders paired with seasoned fries, Ranch, and Bleu Cheese dips. The company's proprietary flavors, which range from extremely hot to mild includes Atomic, Mango Habanero, Cajun, Original Hot, Spicy Korean Q, Louisiana Rub, Mild, Hickory Smoked BBQ, Lemon Pepper, Garlic Parmesan, and Hawaiian. To complement its wings, the company serves seasoned fries, as well as carrots and celery and Ranch and Bleu Cheese Dips made with buttermilk.

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