Hot Stocks You're Buying Now

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

Last time, fertilizer makers had shed the stink. They're still smelling sweet today, but a 29.3% average return was only good for third place. Yowza.

So who's in first? The sun worshippers. Solar stocks are up an average of 30.5% over the past 30 days. Second place, meanwhile, is just dry. And I don't mean boring; I mean dry. Shippers of dry bulk goods are, on average, up 29.7% since late August.

According to you, our Foolish readers, the best stocks -- i.e., those with four or five of the maximum five stars in CAPS -- in these industries to own now are:

Company	CAPS Stars	No. of CAPS Ratings	Bullish CAPS Ratings	Bull Ratio
Agrium	*****	191	188	98.4%
LSB Industries (AMEX:LXU)	*****	141	138	97.9%
Diana Shipping (NYSE:DSX)	*****	611	597	97.7%
Potash Corp. (NYSE:POT)	*****	603	589	97.5%
Yingli Green Energy (NYSE:YGE)	*****	196	191	97.4%

Source: Motley Fool CAPS

And your favorite short candidates -- those rated with one or two stars in CAPS -- are:

Company	CAPS Stars	No. of CAPS Ratings	Bearish CAPS Ratings	Bear Ratio
Hoku Scientific (NASDAQ:HOKU)	*	335	209	62.3%
Canadian Solar (NASDAQ:CSIQ)	*	172	84	49.1%

Source: Motley Fool CAPS

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