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.

COP ConocoPhillips
T AT&T Inc
F Ford Motor
CAT Caterpillar Inc
CVX Chevron Corp
GM General Motors Co
VZ Verizon Communications
PM Philip Morris Intl Inc
OXY Occidental Petro
SO Southern Co Inc
DOW Dow Chemical
QCOM Qualcomm Inc
EXC Exelon Corp
EMR Emerson Electric Co
IBM Intl Business Machines Corp
ABBV AbbVie Inc
PFE Pfizer Inc
XOM Exxon Mobil
MO Altria Grp
MRK Merck & Co

Dave Mecklenburg is the Publishing of TigerSharkTrading.com.