Friday Picks

At end of day 7/17/2009:

Market Monitor
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Trin (Up/Down) 0.710741084047862
Market Val Change $525,174,061
Number of stocks up 4% plus breakout on high volume 50
Number of stocks down 4% plus breakout on high volume 60
Number of stocks up 4% plus down move on high volume 10
Number of stocks down 4% plus up move on high volume 16
Number of stocks up 25% or more in past quarter 1177
Number of stocks down 25% or more in past quarter 124
Number of stocks up 50% or more in past month 19
Number of stocks down 50% or more in past month 6
Number of stocks up 25% or more in past month 140
Number of stocks down 25% or more in past month 31
Number of stocks up 100% or more from year low 1231
Number of stocks down 100% or more from year high 1312
Number of stocks up 200% or more from year low 404
Number of stocks down 200% or more from year high 578
Number of stocks up 4% plus and up 100% or more from year low 38
Number of stocks down 4% plus and down 100% or more from year high 121
Number of stocks up 4% plus and up 200% or more from year low 23
Number of stocks down 4% plus and down 200% or more from year high 72
Number of stocks down at year high 122
Number of stocks down at year low 62

+CBST, CUBIST PHARMACEUT (Google Yahoo Earnings Chart) $18.24 - $17.31
_CYT, CYTEC IND INC (Google Yahoo Earnings Chart) $22.55 - $20.26
+_FPFC, FIRST PLACE FINL (Google Yahoo Earnings Chart) $2.89 - $2.56

Of these, I like FPFC the best. The other two look like classic wall street traps and may be good stocks to short.