Top Pick: Marathon Patent Grou (MARA)

This will give analytical advantage to a shorter-term trader since it pursues the price more intimately, and consequently produces less "lag" as comparison to the longer-term moving average. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 205.60 points, or 0.8%, to 25,574.73, the Nasdaq composite gained 58.21 points, or 0.8%, to 7,211.78 and the Russell 2000 index of small-cap stocks surged 26.99 points, or 1.7%, to 1,586.79. That makes it 0.78 more volatile than the broad market. Rates have been ultra-low since the Great Recession, a culmination of a decline in bond yields over the last three-plus decades.

Top Pick for Friday: Marathon Patent Group, Inc.

Average Revenue Estimate of the company for the current Fiscal Quarter is $1.3 Billion, according to consensus of 8 analysts. The company has Beta Value of 1.78 and ATR value of 0.63. Relative volume is the comparison of current volume to average volume for the same time of day, and it's displayed as a ratio. If RVOL is above 2 it is In Play and this is more evidence Investors ought to be in the name.

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The stock has Return on Assets (ROA) of -263.8 percent. In Play Stocks are volatile enough to produce good risk and reward trading opportunities for both bull and bear traders intraday. The latest exchange of 0.6 Million shares is below its average trading activity of 1.31 Million shares. The relative volume of the stock is 3.06. The stock hit its twelve month high on 11/27/17, and twelve month low on 06/20/17. After the recent moves, investors may also look to see if the stock has entered oversold or overbought territory and could be ripe for a bounce. As of December 15th, there was short interest totalling 2,685,990 shares, an increase of 44.1% from the November 30th total of 1,864,088 shares. Relative volume is an indicator that tells traders and investors how recent volume is compared to past trading volumes over a given period. A high degree of volume indicates a lot of interest in a stock.

Volatility is simply a measure of the predictable daily price range-the range in which a day trader operates. More volatility means greater profit or loss. After a recent check, Marathon Patent Group, Inc. Marathon Patent Grou (NASDAQ:MARA)'s ATR-14 is at 0.63, while its weekly volatility is at 11.11% and monthly volatility is at 13.16%. The stock has a market capitalization of $49.65 Million however its outstanding shares are 12.93 Million. Sorrento Therpt Cmn (NASDAQ:SRNE)'s distance from 20 day simple moving average is0.3241 along with distance from 50 day simple moving average of 3.19 whereas its distance from 200 day simple moving average is 2.35. Its 52-week high and low range is between $34.9 and $10.8. The company's forward price to earnings ratio for next fiscal year is 0. For the past 5 years, the company's revenue has grown 0%, while the company's earnings per share has grown 0%.

Currently, the stock carries a price to earnings ratio of 0, a price to book ratio of 0, and a price to sales ratio of 0.51. However the company's price to cash per share for most recent quarter stands at 0.01. The recommendation is expressed as a mean of the separate recommendations.