3 Stocks Hitting New Highs

Today I reviewed the Barchart list of stocks hitting new highs and sorted to find 3 that were up more than 50% of the days in the last month and found AEP Industries (AEPI), Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR) and PDF Solutions (PDFS):

AEP Industries (AEPI)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 96% Barchart technical buy signal
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 22 new highs and up 22.60% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 94.60%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 58.98
• Recently traded at 60.60 with a 50 day moving average of 50.56

Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 96% Barchart technical buy signal
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 15 new highs and up 26.27% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 77.91%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 10.35
• Recently traded at 10.65 with a 50 day moving average of 8.84

PDF Solutions (PDFS)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 96% Barchart technical buy signal
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 15 new highs and up 10.61% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 80.34%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 13.33
• Recently traded at 13.55 with a 50 day moving average of 11.46

3 Stocks That are off the Charts

This afternoon I used Bachart to screen the 758 stocks that were hitting new highs in the last 30 days to find the 3 with off the chart technicals and found Novavax (NVAX), Core-Mark Holdings (CORE) and AEP Industries (AEPI). These are hourly trading charts for the last month:

Novavax (NVAX)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 96% Brachart technical buy signal
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 19 new highs and up 68.03% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 88.31%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 1.85
• Recently traded at 2.06 with a 50 day moving average of 1.40

Core-Mark Holdings (CORE)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 96% Barchart technical buy signal
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 18 new highs and up 15.87% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 77.49$
• Barchart computes a technical support level at48.02
• Recently traded at 49.43 with a 50 day moving average of 44.18

AEP Industries (AEPI)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 96% Barchart technical buy signal
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 18 new highs and up 27.51% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 94.07
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 45.36
• Recently traded at 46.77 with a 50 day moving average of 37.69