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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...
American Tower: Old Resistance, New Support at Key Line?
American Tower is the largest owner of wireless towers, and the largest member of the real-estate sector. It’s been in a long-term uptrend thanks to the spread of wireless communications, having doubled between early 2017 and early 2019. It hit new all-time highs last...
TradeStation Crypto – Setting Up Your Trade Room Video
Want to set up your own crypto trade room after hearing about bitcoin in the news? This quick video shows you how to set up crypto trading in a snap. Watch how to choose your crypto trading layout, place a trade, select a symbol, and see a price chart in TSCrypto.
Bitcoin Breaks $50,000 as Blackrock Jumps on Board. More Companies Plan to Follow.
Bitcoin keeps hitting new highs as mainstream firms like Blackrock jump on board. "The technology has evolved and the regulations have evolved to the point where a number of people feel it should be part of their portfolio," Rick Rieder of Blackrock (BLK) told CNBC...
Stunner: Intel Is Outperforming Advanced Micro Devices
Intel or AMD? The question is almost as old as "Coke or Pepsi?" For years, the two have battled for leadership in the semiconductor market and the stock market. Intel mostly led coming out of the financial crisis but started falling behind in 2016. Now, the charts...
Financial ETF Is Attempting a Historic Breakout as Interest Rates Rise
The SPDR Financial ETF quietly did something historic last week: It closed at the highest price ever. This is a big deal because XLF has been trapped at resistance running back to 2007 (before the subprime crisis). It was trying to break the old highs around $31...
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...
American Tower: Old Resistance, New Support at Key Line?
American Tower is the largest owner of wireless towers, and the largest member of the real-estate sector. It’s been in a long-term uptrend thanks to the spread of wireless communications, having doubled between early 2017 and early 2019. It hit new all-time highs last...
TradeStation Crypto – Setting Up Your Trade Room Video
Want to set up your own crypto trade room after hearing about bitcoin in the news? This quick video shows you how to set up crypto trading in a snap. Watch how to choose your crypto trading layout, place a trade, select a symbol, and see a price chart in TSCrypto.
Bitcoin Breaks $50,000 as Blackrock Jumps on Board. More Companies Plan to Follow.
Bitcoin keeps hitting new highs as mainstream firms like Blackrock jump on board. "The technology has evolved and the regulations have evolved to the point where a number of people feel it should be part of their portfolio," Rick Rieder of Blackrock (BLK) told CNBC...
Stunner: Intel Is Outperforming Advanced Micro Devices
Intel or AMD? The question is almost as old as "Coke or Pepsi?" For years, the two have battled for leadership in the semiconductor market and the stock market. Intel mostly led coming out of the financial crisis but started falling behind in 2016. Now, the charts...
Financial ETF Is Attempting a Historic Breakout as Interest Rates Rise
The SPDR Financial ETF quietly did something historic last week: It closed at the highest price ever. This is a big deal because XLF has been trapped at resistance running back to 2007 (before the subprime crisis). It was trying to break the old highs around $31...
Biotechs Rising as Buyouts Sweep the Market
Biotechnology stocks are ripping in 2019, fueled by some high-profile takeovers. It was only the second trading session of the year that Bristol Myers Squibb (BMY) gobbled up Celgene (CELG) in a record $74 billion deal. Loxo Oncology (LOXO) accepted an $8 billion bid...
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 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...
Is This a Bear Market Rally or the Start of a New Bull Market?
"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in which direction we are moving." - Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Stock trading is risky because even experienced forecasters can struggle to anticipate the market's direction. At...
Nasdaq Dominates the Top 10: December at TradeStation
The Nasdaq-100 fell 8.9 percent in December, its worst monthly drop this decade. Not surprisingly, seven of the 10 busiest symbols at TradeStation during the period were somehow associated with the tech-heavy index. Here's the top 10. Nasdaq-related symbols are marked...
These Were Market Insights’ Top Stories in 2018
TradeStation's Market Insights blog launched in early 2018. It was a great year to write about the markets, thanks to broad volatility, economic changes and geopolitical turmoil. Today as 2019 gets underway, it's a good time to review some of last year's big stories....
Best Stocks and Biggest Losers of 2018
Stocks are finishing their worst year in a decade, but there were still plenty of winners. Let's run through the best and worst performers of in the S&P 500 index over the course of 2018. All numbers are current based on yesterday's close. Biggest Stock Market...
Stocks and Economy in Massive Disconnect
A lot of things can be said about the stock market right now. One of the biggest is its huge disconnect with the economy. Judging by Wall Street, you'd think we're in a recession now. Key indexes like the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 are in the midst of their worst...
Investors Sold Everything That Wasn’t Nailed Down Last Week
Stocks just finished their worst week in seven years as investors sold everything that wasn't nailed down. All the major sectors declined at least 5 percent. Energy cratered 10 percent, small caps slid 9 percent and Technology dropped 8 percent. The S&P 500's 6.6...