KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 15): theedgemarkets.com highlighted six stocks with momentum at Bursa Malaysia's afternoon close today. The list showed two stocks with positive momentum and four with negative momentum.

Stocks with positive momentum were:

TH Heavy Engineering Bhd - up 1.5 sen at 11.5 sen

Omesti Bhd - up 1.5 sen at 56.5 sen

Stocks with negative momentum were:

mTouche Technology Bhd - down 0.5 sen at 11.5 sen

Advance Synergy Bhd - up 0.5 sen at 14 sen

TAS Offshore Bhd - up two sen at 32 sen

Ajiya Bhd - up 1.5 sen at 47 sen

The list of stocks with momentum is generated using a proprietary mathematical algorithm highlighting stocks with a build-up in trading volume and price. The algorithm differentiates between stocks that exhibit positive (+ve) momentum and negative (-ve) momentum.

This list is not a buy or sell recommendation. It merely tells you which stocks are seeing higher than normal volume and price movements. The share price may move up or down from this point. But the “+ve” (suggesting a rising price trend on volume) and “-ve” (suggesting a falling price trend on volume) indicators should give readers a better idea of what the market is buying and when to sell. Note also that momentum generally only persists for a short period of time.

However, each stock has an accompanying fundamental score and valuation score to help readers evaluate the attractiveness of the stocks, if they want to ride the momentum.