Spend a Night in the Box

Any man with dirty pants on sittin’ on the bunks spends a night in the box. Any man don’t bring back his empty pop bottle spends a night in the box. Any man loud-talkin’ spends a night in the box. You got questions, you come to me…Any man don’t keep order spends a night in the box.  Cool Hand Luke

For being billed as an investor friendly paper, I always thought IBD’s stock tables were very annoying to use in trying to find stock ideas.  However, the paper has a new layout with many more charts and tables that put everything in one place. 

One of the new features I like is the box highlights on the IBD top 100 list.  While the IBD Top 100 stocks are usually too overextended for my liking, I do like the "boxed" companies because they highlight stocks that are close to a potential pivot buy point.  Often these stocks have based for some time and are ready to move higher.  Always remember that the majority of the IBD stocks in the top 100 don’t work unless we’re in a raging bull market (the M in CANSLIM).   And these are not recommendations, just growth stock ideas to do some more work on. With that, here are this week’s box stocks along with a couple of others that piqued my interest.