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Vital Signs: Actionable charts

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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Brooks Automation Inc.

Brooks Automation provides semiconductor manufacturing automation solutions and life science sample-based services and solutions worldwide. In the semiconductor manufacturing market, the company provides robotics, automation systems and services. In the life sciences market, the company provides sample-based services and products, including a line of cold chain management solutions for handling and storing biological and chemical compound samples used in areas such as drug development, clinical research and advanced cell therapies. The company is also a provider of gene sequencing and gene synthesis services. The company's reportable segments consist of Brooks Semiconductor Solutions Group and Brooks Life Sciences.

Career Education Corp.

Career Education's academic institutions provide education to students in a variety of disciplines through online, campus-based and blended learning programs. The company's reporting segments are: Colorado Technical University, which provides industry-relevant degree programs and academic programs in the career-oriented disciplines of business studies, nursing, computer science, engineering, information systems and technology, cybersecurity and healthcare management; and American InterContinental University, which helps personnel get the degree and provides academic programs in the career-oriented disciplines of business studies, information technologies, education and criminal justice.

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.

Cree Inc.

Cree is a provider of bandgap semiconductor products for power and radio-frequency (RF) applications and lighting-class light emitting diode (LED) products. The company's products are used for applications such as transportation, power supplies, inverters, wireless systems, indoor and outdoor lighting, electronic signs and signals and video displays. The company operates in two segments: Wolfspeed, which consists of silicon carbide and gallium nitride (GaN) materials, power devices and RF devices based on silicon and bandgap semiconductor materials; and LED Products, which consists of LED chips and LED components. The company's LED chip products include blue and green LED chips based on GaN and related materials.

Designer Brands Inc. Class A

DSW is a footwear and accessories retailer. The company provides an assortment of brand name dress, casual and athletic footwear and accessories for women, men and kids. The DSW segment, which includes DSW stores and dsw.com, is the company's only reportable segment. For the DSW segment, the company separates its merchandise into three primary categories: women's footwear; men's footwear; and accessories and other (which includes kids' footwear).

Diodes Incorporated

Diodes is a manufacturer and supplier of application-specific standard products. The company's product line includes: discrete semiconductor products, which include performance Schottky rectifiers, performance Schottky diodes, Zener diodes and performance Zener diodes; analog products, which include power management devices; standard logic products including complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor devices and analog switches; multichip products and co-packaged discrete, analog and mixed-signal silicon in miniature packages; silicon and silicon epitaxial wafers used in manufacturing these products; and Frequency Control Products, which are electronic components that provide frequency references.

Essendant Inc.

Essendant is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged as a wholesale distributor of workplace items including janitorial, foodservice and breakroom supplies, technology products, office products, industrial supplies, cut sheet paper products, automotive products and office furniture. The company provides brand products within each of its product categories including Universal

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Foot Locker Inc.

Foot Locker is a retailer of athletically inspired shoes and apparel. The company's reportable segments are: North America and International. The company's North America operating segment includes the following banners operating in the U.S. and Canada: Foot Locker, Kids Foot Locker, Lady Foot Locker, Champs Sports, Footaction, and SIX:02, including each of their related e-commerce businesses, as well as its Eastbay business that includes internet, catalog, and team sales. The company's International operating segment includes the following banners operating in Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand: Foot Locker, Runners Point, Sidestep, and Kids Foot Locker, including each of their related e-commerce businesses.

G-III Apparel Group Ltd.

G-III Apparel Group designs, sources and markets a range of apparel, including outerwear, dresses, sportswear, swimwear, women's suits and women's performance wear, women's handbags, footwear, small leather goods, cold weather accessories and luggage. The company has two segments: wholesale operations, which includes sales of products under brands licensed by the company from third parties and sales of products under its own brands and private label brands, and sales related to the Vilebrequin business; and retail operations, which consists of the company's Wilsons Leather, G.H. Bass and DKNY stores operated as outlet stores, and a limited number of Calvin Klein Performance and Karl Lagerfeld Paris stores.

Gibraltar Industries Inc.

Gibraltar Industries is a manufacturer and distributor of building products for residential, industrial, infrastructure, renewable energy and conservation markets. The company has three segments: Residential Products, which services the residential repair and remodeling and the housing construction markets; Industrial and Infrastructure Products, which serves a variety of end markets such as industrial and commercial construction, highway and bridge construction, automotive, airports and energy and power generation; and Renewable Energy and Conservation, which is primarily a designer and manufacturer of solar mounting systems and greenhouse structures.

Halyard Health

Halyard Health is a medical technology company focused on eliminating pain, speeding recovery and preventing infection for healthcare providers and patients. The company is organized into two operating segments based on product groupings: Medical Devices, which focused on pain management, respiratory and digestive health to improve patient outcomes and reduce the cost of care that include post-operative pain management solutions, and minimally invasive interventional (or chronic) pain therapies; and Surgical and Infection Prevention, which provides healthcare supplies and solutions that target the prevention of healthcare-associated infections.

HMS Holdings Corp.

HMS Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of cost containment application in the healthcare marketplace. The company's application include: Coordination of Benefits, which provides verified insurance coverage information; Payment Integrity, which employ data analytics, technologies and clinical knowledge to identify and avoid improper payments, recover those overpayments when they occur, detect and prevent fraud, and ensure compliance with regulations; and Population Health Management, which integrates early risk identification, analytics, various channel outreach and care management components.

INTL FCStone

INTL FCStone is a global brokerage and financial services firm. The company's services include risk management advisory services for clients; clearing and execution of debt and equity securities, listed futures and options on futures contracts on securities and commodity exchanges; structured over-the-counter products in a range of commodities; physical trading and hedging of precious and base metals; trading of foreign currencies; market-making in international equities; fixed income; debt origination and asset management. The company organizes its business activities into five reportable segments: Commercial Hedging, Physical Commodities, Clearing and Execution Services, Securities, and Global Payments.

Silicon Laboratories Inc.

Silicon Laboratories is a provider of silicon, software and solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT), Internet infrastructure, industrial automation, consumer and automotive markets. The company provides analog-intensive, mixed-signal solutions for use in a variety of electronic products in a range of applications for the IoT including connected home and security, industrial automation and control, smart metering, smart lighting, commercial building automation, consumer electronics, asset tracking and medical instrumentation. The company provides a range of timing and isolation products for infrastructure applications including clocks and oscillators for networking equipment, and data centers.

SkyWest Inc

SkyWest, through its subsidiaries, SkyWest Airlines, Inc. and ExpressJet Airlines, Inc. (ExpressJet), operates regional airlines in the U.S. Substantially all of the company's flights are operated as Delta Connection, United Express, American Eagle or Alaska Airlines flights under code-share arrangements with Delta, United, American or Alaska, respectively. The company has two operating platforms: SkyWest, which provides regional jet service to airports throughout the U.S., as well as Mexico and Canada; and ExpressJet, which provides regional jet service to airports primarily located in the Eastern and Midwestern U.S., as well as Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean.

SPS Commerce Inc.

SPS Commerce is a provider of cloud-based supply chain management services for retailers, suppliers, grocers, distributors and logistics firms to orchestrate the management of item data, order fulfillment, inventory control and sales analytics across various channels. The services provided by the company eliminates the need for on-premise software and support staff by taking on that capability on the customer's behalf. The following services are enabled through the SPS Commerce cloud services Platform: Trading Partner Community, Trading Partner Fulfillment, Trading Partner Assortment, Trading Partner Analytics, Trading Partner Sourcing, and Other Trading Partner Solutions.

Supernus Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Supernus Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products for the treatment of central nervous system diseases. The company has launched Oxtellar XR and Trokendi XR, its two treatments for epilepsy. In addition, the company has launched Trokendi XR for the prophylaxis of migraine headache in adults and adolescents. The company's product candidates for the treatment of psychiatric disorders include: SPN-810 to treat impulsive aggression in children and adolescents who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); SPN-812, a non-stimulant candidate to treat patients who have ADHD; SPN-809 for the treatment of depression; and SPN-604 for the treatment of bipolar.

TCF Financial Corporation

TCF Financial is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, TCF National Bank, the company provides consumer banking services and commercial banking services. The company also conducts commercial leasing and equipment finance business in all 50 states and, to a limited extent, in foreign countries and commercial inventory finance business in all 50 states and Canada and, to a limited extent, in other foreign countries. The company's reportable segments include: Consumer Banking, which includes retail banking, consumer real estate and auto finance; Wholesale Banking, which includes commercial lending, leasing and equipment finance and inventory finance; and Enterprise Services.

Under Armour Inc. Class C

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