Looking for Action? S&P 1500 Most Volatile Stocks

For traders with a more short-term time horizon, we have compiled a list of the S&P 1500 stocks that have the largest intraday high-low ranges (based on the average percent spread between the intraday high and low over the last fifty days). We then grouped the stocks based on whether they have a rising or falling 50-day moving average. Stocks highlighted in gray are new to the list this month.

As the table shows, most of the stocks on the list are trading in the single digits, and while percentages are the same no matter what the price, some traders will avoid stocks trading that low in price.  With that in mind, we have also included a list of the most volatile stocks trading above $10 per share.  For this list, we have only included the ten most volatile names with rising 50-day moving averages and the ten most volatile names with falling 50-day moving averages.

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In respect to AMBAC and MBIA, they need to keep and save all the cash possible including stop paying dividends, deleverage from all their risky liabilities specially those CDS, CDO's, RMBS-ABS of uncertain value, in order to remediate their book values, once their book values are sound they need to reinstate their triple A rating again to write new low risk public bond insurance business. They can also open or extend a line of credit to make sure to continue operations and dissipate doubts.

They are already doing these, so it will take some time to deleverage their books from uncertainties and rewrite new business again. This coming back will be the best advertisement to recruit new clients.