Today's 5 Best Large Caps

I wanted to find today's 5 best large cap stock so I used Barchart to sort the S&P 500 Large Cap Index stocks.  I sorted first for a Weighted Alpha of 50.00+ or higher than again for technical buy signals of 80% or better.  Today's stocks include Total System Services (TSS), Starbucks (SBUX), Reynolds American (RAI), Nvidia (NVDA) and Expedia (EXPE).

Total System Services (TSS)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 96% Barchart technical buy signals
• 54.10+ Weighted Alpha
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 12 new highs and up 9.31% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 66.44%
• Barchart computes a technical support level of 50.52
• Recently traded at 50.98 with a 50 day moving average of 47.03

Starbucks (SBUX)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 96% Barchart technical buy signals
• 63.90+ Weighted Alpha
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 10 new highs and up 7.48% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 64.14%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 62.54
• Recently traded at 62.74 with a 50 day moving average of 57.40

Reynolds American (RAI)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 80% Barchart technical buy signals
• 56.50+ Weighted Alpha
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 14 new highs and up 11.84% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 63.82%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 48.47
• Recently traded at 47.89 with a 50 day moving average of 43.93

Nvidia (NVDA)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 96% Barchart technical buy signals
• 55.00+ Weighted Alpha
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 16 new highs and up 2008% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 74.63%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 27.97
• Recently traded at 28.52 with a 50 day moving average of 24.25

Expedia (EXPE)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 80% Barchart technical buy signals
• 52.60+ Weighted Alpha
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 8 new highs and up 5.64% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 54.30%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 124.24
• Recently traded at 127.70 with a 50 day moving average of 120.64

NASDAQ 100 soars

What a difference a week makes.  This time last week the NASDAQ 100 was showing signs of caution.  Not a single stock was above an 80% Barchart technical buy signal.  Today 39 of the 100 stocks are above that level.  I sorted the index to find 5 with the best Barchart technical indicators and charts.  The list today includes Analog Devices (ADI), Discovery Communications (DISCA), Expeditors International of Washington (EXPD), Expedia (EXPE) and Liberty Global (LBTYA):

Analog Devices (ADI)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 100% Barchart technical buy signal
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 8 new highs and up 7.05% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 64.03%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 42.14
• Recently traded at 43.29 with a  day moving average of 40.70

Discovery Communications (DISCA)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 100% Barchart technical buy signal
• rend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 5 new highs and up 9.31% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 68.47%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 64.72
• Recently traded at 65.53 with a 50 day moving average of 59.91

Expeditors International of Washington (EXPD)

Barchrat technical indicators:

• 100% Barchart technical buy signal
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 11 new highs and up 10.79% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 73.00%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 40.65
• Recently traded at 41.03 with a 50 day moving average of 37.59

Expedia (EXPE)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 100% Barchart technical buy signal
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving average
• 6 new highs and up 3.37% in the past month
• Relative Strength Index 59.76%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 61.52
• Recently traded at 62.83 with a 50 day moving average of 58.97

Liberty Global (LBTYA)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 100% Barchart technical buy signal
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 11 new highs and up 13.70% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 72.75%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 64.35
• Recently traded at 65.30 with a 50 day moving average of 59.64

Speed up with Expedia (EXPE)

Put a little speed in your portfolio with an addition of Expedia (EXPE). It's in my S&P 500 Marketocracy fund. EXPE is a holding company that provides wholesale and retail travel services to off line retail travel agents and the public.

Some of its holdings include Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Trip Advisor and Hotwire. I've used them all and gotten fine results. It operates in the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy Netherlands and through investments in China. Pretty global!

The fundamentals of the balance sheet are solid and growing. Although it had a loss for 2008, it has healthy profits for the first 2 quarters of this year.

It has competion from Orbitz (OWW) and Priceline (PCLN). The stocks market cap is 7B to PCLN at 7B and OWW at only 519M. It wins in the revenue comparison with 2.9B compared to 2B for PCLN and only 800M for OWW.

As the economy recovers both business and personal travel should be increasing and the use of their services will soar.

Any stock needs some buzz to move and there are 15 analysts following this stock. Recent analysts recommendations have had 3 BUYS and 1 HOLD.

On the technical side BarChart rates EXPE as an 88% Buy with 10 out of 12 TA indicators a BUY and 2 a HOLD. Recent price action had 5 new highs in the last 20 trading sessions with 4 new highs in the last 5 trading sessions. Price movement has been 57% for the last 65 trading sessions.

Good numbers, analysts buzz good recent technical action.

Recommendation: BUY under 25 with a protective stop loss at 21.

Disclosure: I hold no position in EXPE at time of publication.