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
PM Philip Morris Intl Inc
WMB Williams Companies
AEP Amer Electric Pwr
VZ Verizon Communications
LLY Lilly (Eli)
COP ConocoPhillips
INTC Intel Corp
LMT Lockheed Martin
FCX Freeport-McMoRan Copper&Gold B
MRK Merck & Co
MCD McDonald's Corp
ABBV AbbVie Inc
DOW Dow Chemical
CVX Chevron Corporation
CSCO Cisco Systems
SPG Simon Property Group

Dave Mecklenburg is the Publishing of TigerSharkTrading.com.