Cold Stocks You're Selling Now

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Welcome back to another Foolish review of the coldest stocks, as ranked by Motley Fool CAPS. We're looking at the three worst-performing industries over the past 30 days, and your favorite short and long candidates in each.

Last time, investing in homebuilders looked about as smart as Bill Belichick. Still want a piece of the action? No, you don't. Homebuilders lead the league in losses, down 15.9% on average since mid-August.

Our other lovable losers are new entrants. In second, makers of products for the free Linux operating system are down 12.7%. In third, optical-components suppliers can't see straight; they're off 11.2% over the past 30 days.

According to you, our Foolish readers, the worst stocks in these industries to own now --i.e., those rated one or two out of a maximum five stars in CAPS -- are:

Company	CAPS Stars	No. of CAPS Ratings	Bearish CAPS Ratings	Bear Ratio
Beazer Homes	*	586	443	75.6%
Centex	*	417	279	66.9%
KB Home	*	596	395	66.3%
Lennar (NYSE: LEN)	*	508	336	66.1%
Pulte Homes (NYSE: PHM)	*	624	411	65.9%
Hovnanian Enterprises (NYSE: HOV)	*	474	301	63.5%
The Ryland Group (NYSE: RYL)	*	299	187	62.5%

Source: Motley Fool CAPS

And your favorite long candidates -- i.e., those rated four or five stars in CAPS -- are:

Company	CAPS Stars	No. of CAPS Ratings	Bullish CAPS Ratings	Bull Ratio
Oplink Communications (Nasdaq: OPLK)	****	103	98	95.1%

Source: Motley Fool CAPS

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