Wild Oats Markets Has a Volatile Price Pattern

Wild Oats Markets (OATS), an operator of natural foods stores, has a volatile price pattern. OATS peaked twice, completed a steep downside and then traded in a wide price range.

For the 5,995 monthly close buy and sell combinations from January 1997 through November 2005, 2,598 (43.34%) have made money. And 3,397 (56.67%) buy and sell combinations have been unprofitable. The percent returns charts shows the winners in green and the losers in red.

The winners ad losers map shows the distribution of winning (green) and losing (red) buy and sell combinations.