Large, mature companies with lagging stock prices often see prices that outperform the overall index over three-month and one-year periods. This strategy is usually implemented as a basket trade of the weak stocks to lower risk. The following are the weakest components of the S&P 100 index.

MO Altria Group
T AT&T Inc
SO Southern Company Inc
EXC Exelon Corp
AEP Amer Electric Pwr
PM Philip Morris Intl Inc
VZ Verizon Communications
WMB Williams Companies
LMT Lockheed Martin
LLY Lilly (Eli)
MRK Merck & Co
COP ConocoPhillips
INTC Intel Corp
FCX Freeport-McMoRan Copper&Gold B
MCD McDonald's Corp
CVX Chevron Corporation
ABBV AbbVie Inc
DOW Dow Chemical
MSFT Microsoft Corp
PFE Pfizer Inc

Dave Mecklenburg is the Publishing of TigerSharkTrading.com.