Market Insights
Bringing you the trading news around the world.
Stories
Call Buyers Flock to Advanced Micro as Chipmaker Wins Business From Microsoft and Meta
Advanced Micro Devices lit up the options market yesterday after being included in the world's biggest social network. The three busiest contracts across the entire options market were short-term AMD calls expiring this Friday, November 12. They outpaced other...
This Consumer Icon Is Reinventing Itself Again as Coronavirus Fades. Can You Guess November’s Mystery Stock?
The coronavirus pandemic took a heavy toll on companies providing in-person services. This month's mystery stock is no exception, although it's made some big strides lately. Like many great business sagas of the 20th century, its history began on the east coast and...
Jobs, Spending, Travel: The Economy Keeps Getting Better As the Holidays Approach
From employment to manufacturing and spending, the economy continues to improve as the crucial holiday shopping season approaches. Today's non-farm payrolls report featured bullish news on almost every metric. The overall number beat estimates by 25 percent, as key...
Retail Feeding Frenzy as Brick and Mortar Stocks Beat Estimates: Earnings This Week
Traditional retail stocks are having an explosive week as companies like Under Armour report strong earnings. Is it the start of a new trend that will last into yearend? The athletic-apparel company's sales topped estimates by about 5 percent, but earnings were almost...
Options Alert: Ford Motor Calls Rolled Up as Rivian IPO Electrifies the Market
Options traders keep rolling bullish positions in Ford Motor with a key event coming as soon as next week. This large transaction occurred in the Dearborn, Michigan-based automaker shortly before the closing bell yesterday: 20,000 January 20 calls were bought for...
Is It a Good Idea? Learn How to Back Test Trading Ideas Before Risking Capital
Backtesting is can be an important part of refining market strategies. TradeStation's platform includes tools for analyzing trade ideas and methods. This instructional webinar covers how traders can use both long and short entries on an unlimited number of ideas,...
Technical Analysis: Is It Showtime for AMC Entertainment?
AMC Entertainment had a dramatic short squeeze in May and June. Now it may be ready to move again following months of consolidation. The price level around $35 is the first noteworthy pattern on the chart of the movie-theater operator. That was a peak in 2015 and...
Energy Charts Are Challenging Key Levels as Forecasters Predict More Price Gains
Two key energy charts are challenging important levels as investors and analysts look for prices to keep rising. First is the weekly price of CME's WTI Crude Oil Futures (@CL), which recently approached $85.50. That was near a peak from October 2018, which at the time...
Stocks Just Had Their Best Month in a Year as Strong Earnings Drive Away the Bears
Stocks just finished their best month in a year as strong quarterly results melted a bubble of extreme negativity. The S&P 500 finished October up 6.9 percent at a new all-time high. It was the biggest monthly gain since November 2020, with over three-quarters of...
Call Buyers Flock to Advanced Micro as Chipmaker Wins Business From Microsoft and Meta
Advanced Micro Devices lit up the options market yesterday after being included in the world's biggest social network. The three busiest contracts across the entire options market were short-term AMD calls expiring this Friday, November 12. They outpaced other...
This Consumer Icon Is Reinventing Itself Again as Coronavirus Fades. Can You Guess November’s Mystery Stock?
The coronavirus pandemic took a heavy toll on companies providing in-person services. This month's mystery stock is no exception, although it's made some big strides lately. Like many great business sagas of the 20th century, its history began on the east coast and...
Jobs, Spending, Travel: The Economy Keeps Getting Better As the Holidays Approach
From employment to manufacturing and spending, the economy continues to improve as the crucial holiday shopping season approaches. Today's non-farm payrolls report featured bullish news on almost every metric. The overall number beat estimates by 25 percent, as key...
Retail Feeding Frenzy as Brick and Mortar Stocks Beat Estimates: Earnings This Week
Traditional retail stocks are having an explosive week as companies like Under Armour report strong earnings. Is it the start of a new trend that will last into yearend? The athletic-apparel company's sales topped estimates by about 5 percent, but earnings were almost...
Options Alert: Ford Motor Calls Rolled Up as Rivian IPO Electrifies the Market
Options traders keep rolling bullish positions in Ford Motor with a key event coming as soon as next week. This large transaction occurred in the Dearborn, Michigan-based automaker shortly before the closing bell yesterday: 20,000 January 20 calls were bought for...
Is It a Good Idea? Learn How to Back Test Trading Ideas Before Risking Capital
Backtesting is can be an important part of refining market strategies. TradeStation's platform includes tools for analyzing trade ideas and methods. This instructional webinar covers how traders can use both long and short entries on an unlimited number of ideas,...
Technical Analysis: Is It Showtime for AMC Entertainment?
AMC Entertainment had a dramatic short squeeze in May and June. Now it may be ready to move again following months of consolidation. The price level around $35 is the first noteworthy pattern on the chart of the movie-theater operator. That was a peak in 2015 and...
Energy Charts Are Challenging Key Levels as Forecasters Predict More Price Gains
Two key energy charts are challenging important levels as investors and analysts look for prices to keep rising. First is the weekly price of CME's WTI Crude Oil Futures (@CL), which recently approached $85.50. That was near a peak from October 2018, which at the time...
Stocks Just Had Their Best Month in a Year as Strong Earnings Drive Away the Bears
Stocks just finished their best month in a year as strong quarterly results melted a bubble of extreme negativity. The S&P 500 finished October up 6.9 percent at a new all-time high. It was the biggest monthly gain since November 2020, with over three-quarters of...
Markets Panicked About Higher Rates. These Charts Suggest the Move Could Be Done for Now
Last month's jump in interest rates triggered fears in the stock market, but some charts indicate the process may have run its course for now. The moves occurred across bonds, oil prices and copper. Each of those may have reached levels where they're due for a pause....
Are Stocks Overvalued? This Video Makes Sense of Market Fundamentals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXOhHk_EtK0 Interest rates have jumped as the economy rebounds from the coronavirus pandemic. Old market leaders in the technology space have fallen behind as investors flock to new kinds of stocks like energy and financials. This...
February Ends on a Bearish Note as Inflation Fears Mount. Twitter and Snap Jumped
February started strong but ended on a bearish note as investors worried about rising inflation. The S&P 500 went almost straight up in the first half of the month. It stalled immediately after President's day and trended lower for the second half of the month....
DR Horton Is Bouncing After a Pullback
Homebuilders have struggled lately as interest rates rose, but the longer-term prospects remain favorable. Today’s chart considers the pullback in DR Horton, the biggest name in the space. DHI hit a new all-time high of $84.41 on February 11 and pulled back. It’s now...
Cisco Is Holding Multi-Decade Support: Chart Analysis
Cisco Systems has gone nowhere for three years, but now the tech stock may be showing signs of life. First, notice the pullback from new highs in early February. Second, notice where CSCO broke out and is trying to stabilize. The current $45.50 level was resistance in...
Snap Just Had a Historic Day as Self-Serve Advertising Fuels Stunning Growth Forecast
Snap just had an insanely bullish day, thanks to a better advertising platform and augmented reality. Executives told investors revenue will grow more than 50 percent annually for "multiple" years, according to reports on Reuters, Bloomberg and CNBC. That's more than...
Bullish News Continues for Housing, Despite Higher Interest Rates. Here Are Key Stocks to Watch
Bullish news continues for the U.S. housing sector, even with interest rates spiking to pre-coronavirus levels. Home prices rose 10.4 percent in December, according to S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller yesterday. It was the biggest in seven years, accelerating from...
Tesla Is Lagging as ‘Old Economy’ Stocks Make a Comeback
Tesla is probably the most prominent stock in the last 12-18 months, surging about 2,000 percent from its peak to trough. But now it may be at risk as sentiment pivots from "new economy" stocks to "old economy" stocks. The chart in this study compares TSLA’s relative...
Walmart Hammered as Covid Boom Fades and Commodities Take Off: Earnings This Week
Walmart cratered this week as investors unloaded stay-at-home stocks and shifted toward commodities. Walmart (WMT) might have generated more revenue than expected, and enjoyed better traffic. However it came at a cost to profits, which missed estimates because of...