5 Stocks Under $10 Set to Soar

WINDERMERE, Fla. (Stockpickr) -- There isn't a day that goes by on Wall Street when stocks trading near or under $10 a share don't experience massive spikes higher. Traders savvy enough to follow the low-priced names and trade them with discipline and sound risk management are banking ridiculous coin on a regular basis.

Just take a look at some of the hot movers today in the under-$10 category, including Zoom Technologies(ZOOM), up over 29%; Clean Diesel Technologies(CDTI), rising over 18%; K-V Pharmaceuticals(KV.A), jumping over 22%; and Clearwire(CLWR) advancing over 31%. You don't even have to catch the entire move in lower-priced stocks such as these to make outsized returns when trading.

I'm not as eager to recommend investing long-term in stocks that trade for less than $10 a share because these names can be very speculative, and the odds for picking the long-term winners aren't great. But I definitely love to trade stocks that trade below $10. I like to view them as a trading vehicle with lots of volatility and lots of upside when the trade is timed right.

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When I trade under-$10 names, I do it based almost entirely off of the charts and technical analysis. I also like to find under-$10 names with a catalyst, but that's secondary to the chart and volume patterns.

Here's a look at a number of under-$10 stocks that look poised to potentially trade higher from current levels.