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Big Growth Stocks Roar Back as Earnings Approach
Big growth stocks are roaring back to life as earnings approach. Companies like Netflix (NFLX), Incyte (INCY), Broadcom (AVGO), Facebook (FB) and Alphabet (GOOGL) are leading the S&P 500 higher today as investors return to the most important part of the market....
New Crypto Services Coming This Year
Stay tuned for some big innovations in the cryptocurrency space later this year. Our new TradeStation Crypto subsidiary has been launched and announced plans to offer clients a full suite of advanced trading tools for virtual currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. The...
Latin American Value Hunt Continues
Stocks south of the border keep heading north. The iShares Latin America 40 ETF (ILF) is up 10 percent so far this year, about triple the performance of the S&P 500 over the same period. Unlike the unlike the domestic index, the fund is also above its 50- and...
Stocks Climb Wall of Worry for Third Straight Week
Stocks keep climbing as investors return to the market after a terrible fourth quarter. The S&P 500 rose 2.5 percent between Friday, January 4, and Friday, January 11. It was the third straight weekly gain and brought the index back to its highest level since...
Monex Crypto Market Weekly: January 11
This post is a translation of the weekly cryptocurrency analysis by Crypto Lab, a wholly owned subsidiary of Monex Group (Tokyo, Japan). Monex is the parent of TradeStation Group. Bitcoin rose temporarily along with stocks, but leveled off due to a series of adverse...
New Companies Are Leading the Market in the New Year
Last year was a busy year for initial public offerings, and several of those new names are rallying in 2019. A list of 37 recent IPOs generated an average gain of more than 9 percent since the start of January. That's more than twice the gain of the broader S&P...
Big Trade Sees Bottom in Energy Giant: Options Recap
Energy stocks are bouncing from long-term lows this year, and one big investor has called a bottom in a key servicing name. Schlumberger (SLB) touched a 13-year low under $35 last month. Today, a large block of puts got sold at that level as a trader looked for the...
Dollar Slides with Doves Ruling the Roost at the Fed
Hawks at the Federal Reserve keep morphing into doves, hammering the greenback. Several comments from the central bank yesterday expressed a cautious view of interest rates. It started with Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic, who warned that economic fears have...
Bulls See More Bounce in Energy Space: Options Recap
Energy stocks have gone from bad to good in the New Year, and one options trader is looking for the bounce to continue. Check out the activity yesterday in Oklahoma City-based driller Devon Energy (DVN): A block of 20,000 April 28 calls was bought for $1.48 in a new...
Big Growth Stocks Roar Back as Earnings Approach
Big growth stocks are roaring back to life as earnings approach. Companies like Netflix (NFLX), Incyte (INCY), Broadcom (AVGO), Facebook (FB) and Alphabet (GOOGL) are leading the S&P 500 higher today as investors return to the most important part of the market....
New Crypto Services Coming This Year
Stay tuned for some big innovations in the cryptocurrency space later this year. Our new TradeStation Crypto subsidiary has been launched and announced plans to offer clients a full suite of advanced trading tools for virtual currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. The...
Latin American Value Hunt Continues
Stocks south of the border keep heading north. The iShares Latin America 40 ETF (ILF) is up 10 percent so far this year, about triple the performance of the S&P 500 over the same period. Unlike the unlike the domestic index, the fund is also above its 50- and...
Stocks Climb Wall of Worry for Third Straight Week
Stocks keep climbing as investors return to the market after a terrible fourth quarter. The S&P 500 rose 2.5 percent between Friday, January 4, and Friday, January 11. It was the third straight weekly gain and brought the index back to its highest level since...
Monex Crypto Market Weekly: January 11
This post is a translation of the weekly cryptocurrency analysis by Crypto Lab, a wholly owned subsidiary of Monex Group (Tokyo, Japan). Monex is the parent of TradeStation Group. Bitcoin rose temporarily along with stocks, but leveled off due to a series of adverse...
New Companies Are Leading the Market in the New Year
Last year was a busy year for initial public offerings, and several of those new names are rallying in 2019. A list of 37 recent IPOs generated an average gain of more than 9 percent since the start of January. That's more than twice the gain of the broader S&P...
Big Trade Sees Bottom in Energy Giant: Options Recap
Energy stocks are bouncing from long-term lows this year, and one big investor has called a bottom in a key servicing name. Schlumberger (SLB) touched a 13-year low under $35 last month. Today, a large block of puts got sold at that level as a trader looked for the...
Dollar Slides with Doves Ruling the Roost at the Fed
Hawks at the Federal Reserve keep morphing into doves, hammering the greenback. Several comments from the central bank yesterday expressed a cautious view of interest rates. It started with Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic, who warned that economic fears have...
Bulls See More Bounce in Energy Space: Options Recap
Energy stocks have gone from bad to good in the New Year, and one options trader is looking for the bounce to continue. Check out the activity yesterday in Oklahoma City-based driller Devon Energy (DVN): A block of 20,000 April 28 calls was bought for $1.48 in a new...