{"id":147,"date":"2005-12-06T05:55:41","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T10:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/?p=147"},"modified":"2018-08-12T01:13:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T06:13:02","slug":"top-breakouts-oil-stocks-surging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/stocks\/top-breakouts-oil-stocks-surging\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Breakouts &#8211; Oil Stocks Surging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still alive:)&nbsp; I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been preoccupied with unexpected events recently\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and I apologize for the lack of posts.&nbsp; This blog is important to me and I want to be consistent about posting here and keep readers on top of the market.&nbsp; With that said, I&#8217;d like to highlight breakouts of the past couple weeks as well as list the top 10 breakout opportunities right now in the market.&nbsp; &nbsp;However, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to caution that now is the time to be fairly conservative.&nbsp; We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had a tremendous run over the past couple weeks.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>As always, <u>click here to a larger screenshot<\/u> of the database, filtered to show the top breakouts (total fundamental + technical score of 50\/60 or above) of the past 2 weeks.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Running through the breakouts and scanning through the several hundred stocks that I track, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been noticing that commodities (specifically oil) have been doing particularily well of late.&nbsp; In fact, nearly half of the top 15 breakouts of the past 2 weeks come from the oil and metals groups.&nbsp; Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s have a look.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a bit of a mixed bag in terms of breakout success over the past 2 weeks \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 39 breakouts, 14 with a gain, 9 with a loss and 6 with no gain.&nbsp; The biggest winners include <strong>Core Molding Technologies (CMT)<\/strong> with a 12% gain (a stock highlighted in a report to free and premium members of SelfInvestors.com), <strong>OraSure Technologies (OSUR)<\/strong> with a 17% gain and <strong>The Pantry (PTRY)<\/strong>, also with a 12% gain.&nbsp; The biggest loser (although it remains above support with today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reversal) was <strong>Miller Industries (MLR),<\/strong> down -6% from its breakout point.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my top ten list of stocks that have already broken out, but remain in a buyable range:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>1) Allergan (AGN)<\/p>\n<p>2) Joy Global (JOYG)<\/p>\n<p>3) PetroChina (PTR)<\/p>\n<p>4) Grant Prideco (GRP)<\/p>\n<p>5) ChinaMobile (CHL)<br \/>6) Gildan Activewear (GIL)<\/p>\n<p>7) CE Franklin (CFK)<\/p>\n<p>8) Perficient (PRFT)<\/p>\n<p>9) BHP Billiton (BHP)<\/p>\n<p>10) Diamond Offshore Drilling (DO)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>As always please do your own research.&nbsp; These are ideas for further research.. Happy Trading and Good Luck!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still alive:)&nbsp; I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been preoccupied with unexpected events recently\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and I apologize for the lack of posts.&nbsp; This blog is important to me and I want to be consistent about posting here and keep readers on top of the market.&nbsp; With that said, I&#8217;d like to highlight breakouts of the past couple weeks as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/stocks\/top-breakouts-oil-stocks-surging\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Top Breakouts &#8211; Oil Stocks Surging<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stocks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}