Biggest Losers in 2008:
Stocks Down 35% or More in First 8 Trading Days of 2008.
Heavy Distrribution and Insider Selling Are Commonly
Seen in weakest stocks.
We measure red Distribution in two ways. There is horizontal accumulation, which is
what the Accumulation
Index (AI) measures over
time. And there is vertical or Current Accumulation (if indicator is blue) or
Current
Distribution (if the
indicator is red), ote the how the Red Distribution has waves that
drop the
indicator vertically below
-.25. This we term "insider selling". This is a
primary sign of a stock that is
vulnerable. Note that
"insider selling" is not always by corporate insiders. Big Money with
connections to insiders
are always a factor.
TigerSoft's proprietary Closing Power trends, you can see in the table below, range
between
35 and 45 for these very weak
stocks. Users will want to get our TigerSoft manual, Killer Short Sales in Any
Market. Some of the
other key characteristics of good short sales are commented on below.
2 NANO Nanometrics Incorporated 6.42 -35% 117 44%
3 PLCE Children's Place 16.93 -35% 62 42%
4 RFMD RF Micro Devices 3.73 -35% 46 43%
5 SPEC Spectrum Control 10.03 -35% 111 46%
6 SPF Standard Pacific Corp. 2.2 -35% 42 39%
7 VSAT ViaSat 22.72 -35% 139 50%
8 BKUNA Bankunited Financial Corp 4.48 -36% 39 42%
Insider Transactions - 
9 MW Men's Wearhouse 17.52 -36% 120 44%
10 WRLS Telular Corporation 4.4 -36% 157 51%
12 LYTS LSI Industries 11.62 -37% 82 48%
13 MDTL Medis Techn. 9.73 -37% 104 44%
14 RSTO Restoration Hardware 4.2 -37% 77 38%
15 SALM Salem Communications Corp 4.2 -37% 47 45%
17 GBE Grubb & Ellis Co. 3.95 -39% 103 44%
18 MERX Merix Corporation 2.83 -40% 59 41%
19 MTH Meritage Corporation 8.78 -40% 38 36%
20 TLB Talbots 6.96 -42% 91 44%
24 IQW Quebecor World .9 -50% 20 42%
See comments - Hall of Shame
25 WCI WCI Communities 1.9 -50% 36 39%
