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, gaming stocks such as The9 (Nasdaq: NCTY  ) and Shuffle Master (Nasdaq: SHFL  ) were cashing in. They've since folded, leaving renewable-energy firms raking in the chips.

No, really. So hot are the green gurus that biofuel specialist Verenium (Nasdaq: VRNM  ) and its peers took all three spots in this week's list. Each group was up at least -- wait for it -- 60% over the past 30 days.

According to you, our Foolish readers, the best stock (yup, only one) in these industries to own now -- i.e., the one with four or five of the maximum five stars in CAPS -- is:

Company	CAPS Stars	No. of CAPS Ratings	Bull Ratio	30-Day Price Change
Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE:ADM)	****	1,015	92.9%	26.0%

Sources: Motley Fool CAPS and Yahoo! Finance, as of Dec. 21.

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

Company	CAPS Stars	No. of CAPS Ratings	Bear Ratio	30-Day Price Change
U.S. BioEnergy	*	251	58.2%	78.2%
BioFuel Energy (NASDAQ:BIOF)	*	56	57.1%	68.0%
VeraSun Energy (NYSE:VSE)	*	371	50.1%	80.9%
Aventine Renewable Energy	*	385	49.1%	66.9%
Pacific Ethanol (NASDAQ:PEIX)	*	611	44.0%	107.4%

Sources: Motley Fool CAPS and Yahoo! Finance, as of Dec. 21.

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