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GameStop’s Real Lesson to Investors: Beware of Crowded Trades
GameStop's short squeeze is one of the most discussed news stories this year. Whatever you think of it, one thing is clear for investors: It shows the risk of "crowded trades." A "crowded trade" is a popular position or theme embraced by large numbers of investors. It...
Stocks Turn Negative for Year as GameStop Mania Triggers Big Volatility Surge
The GameStop short squeeze has spread waves of uncertainty across the market, overshadowing major earnings and economic news. The S&P 500 plunged 3.3 percent between Friday, January 22, and Friday, January 29. It was the biggest weekly decline since October, with...
Apple Stuns as the IPhone Upgrade Cycle Takes Hold: Earnings This Week
Apple led a busy week of earnings by crushing estimates as users clambered for new iPhones. Most other companies also had strong results -- especially chip makers and industrials. The tech giant generated $65.6 billion of revenue from iPhones last quarter, up 21...
GameStop Reversal? Short Squeeze Hits an ‘Outside Day’ of Epic Proportions
GameStop just had one of the craziest trading sessions in recent memory. The video-game retailer entered the session with a year-to-date gain of over 1,600 percent, propelled by a short squeeze of epic proportions. Seconds after 10 a.m. ET, it reached a high of $483....
Trains Good, Planes Bad: Transports and Traveling After Coronavirus
As the economy staggers back from coronavirus, a split is appearing in the world of transportation. Railroads are thriving and air travel is struggling. Consider these two points from yesterday: The Association of American Railroads reported that train traffic...
Market Pulse: Bitcoin Holds 30K, Tags the 50-day SMA
Bitcoin has bled lower for the last three weeks, but some interesting things appeared on the chart today. Click here to view the related idea and chart analysis on TradingView.
GameStop Has Overtaken Tesla on Google Finance
GameStop's epic short squeeze is a stunning example of how quickly markets can change. A big example of this appeared on Google Trends. This screenshot compares interest in GameStop (GME) and Tesla (TSLA) on Google Finance over the last seven days. A week ago, GME had...
Fubo Could Be Emerging as the Next Sports Betting Stock
Two big sports betting stocks emerged last year. Now a third may be joining the club: Fubo TV. Activity has surged in the streaming-video company lately. As this chart shows, average stock volume has increased from less than 5 million shares a day to over 21 million....
Tesla Is Falling Behind as FANG Stocks Begin to Report Quarterly Results
Stocks broke out to new highs last week, but something changed. For the first time in months, Tesla didn't lead the charge. Traditional Nasdaq companies like Netflix (NFLX), Alphabet (GOOGL) and Apple (AAPL) outperformed the electric-car maker by a wide margin. The...
GameStop’s Real Lesson to Investors: Beware of Crowded Trades
GameStop's short squeeze is one of the most discussed news stories this year. Whatever you think of it, one thing is clear for investors: It shows the risk of "crowded trades." A "crowded trade" is a popular position or theme embraced by large numbers of investors. It...
Stocks Turn Negative for Year as GameStop Mania Triggers Big Volatility Surge
The GameStop short squeeze has spread waves of uncertainty across the market, overshadowing major earnings and economic news. The S&P 500 plunged 3.3 percent between Friday, January 22, and Friday, January 29. It was the biggest weekly decline since October, with...
Apple Stuns as the IPhone Upgrade Cycle Takes Hold: Earnings This Week
Apple led a busy week of earnings by crushing estimates as users clambered for new iPhones. Most other companies also had strong results -- especially chip makers and industrials. The tech giant generated $65.6 billion of revenue from iPhones last quarter, up 21...
GameStop Reversal? Short Squeeze Hits an ‘Outside Day’ of Epic Proportions
GameStop just had one of the craziest trading sessions in recent memory. The video-game retailer entered the session with a year-to-date gain of over 1,600 percent, propelled by a short squeeze of epic proportions. Seconds after 10 a.m. ET, it reached a high of $483....
Trains Good, Planes Bad: Transports and Traveling After Coronavirus
As the economy staggers back from coronavirus, a split is appearing in the world of transportation. Railroads are thriving and air travel is struggling. Consider these two points from yesterday: The Association of American Railroads reported that train traffic...
Market Pulse: Bitcoin Holds 30K, Tags the 50-day SMA
Bitcoin has bled lower for the last three weeks, but some interesting things appeared on the chart today. Click here to view the related idea and chart analysis on TradingView.
GameStop Has Overtaken Tesla on Google Finance
GameStop's epic short squeeze is a stunning example of how quickly markets can change. A big example of this appeared on Google Trends. This screenshot compares interest in GameStop (GME) and Tesla (TSLA) on Google Finance over the last seven days. A week ago, GME had...
Fubo Could Be Emerging as the Next Sports Betting Stock
Two big sports betting stocks emerged last year. Now a third may be joining the club: Fubo TV. Activity has surged in the streaming-video company lately. As this chart shows, average stock volume has increased from less than 5 million shares a day to over 21 million....
Tesla Is Falling Behind as FANG Stocks Begin to Report Quarterly Results
Stocks broke out to new highs last week, but something changed. For the first time in months, Tesla didn't lead the charge. Traditional Nasdaq companies like Netflix (NFLX), Alphabet (GOOGL) and Apple (AAPL) outperformed the electric-car maker by a wide margin. The...
Bright Spots as Big Tech Disappoints: Earnings This Week
The last week of quarterly results featured bad news from some high-profile stocks, but other names rose in prominence. Right off the bat, Apple (AAPL) had disappointing iPhone sales and stunned investors by saying it would stop reporting unit volumes on its flagship...
Why Stocks Move: Investor Rotation
This post, originally published on September 19, is is part of a series about the catalysts for stock movements. Sign up for TradeStation's Master Class learning sessions next week for the complete course. Anyone who's been in the market for a while will...
Midterms and Markets: How Tomorrow’s Election Matters
How might the midterm elections ripple through financial markets? There are three possible outcomes in tomorrow's midterm elections: Republicans retain control of both houses of Congress. Democrats take the House but not the Senate. Democrats win big and seize control...
Stocks Whipsaw to Best Week Since March
It was a crazy ride, but stocks just finished their best week since March. The S&P 500 initially dropped, continuing a wave of bearishness from October. But it quickly reversed and chalked up a 2.4 percent gain for the period between Friday, October 26, and...
IPOs Slow in October as Markets Swoon
The red-hot IPO market took a breather last month as the broader indexes tumbled lower. Some $4.8 billion of initial public offerings priced in October, according to ClickIPO. That was 11 percent less than September and a 23 percent decline from the same month a year...
Don’t Worry, October’s Almost Over
Here's one good thing you can say about October: It's almost finished. The S&P 500 is in the midst of its worst month since early 2009, down almost 9 percent since the end of September. That includes a 4 percent drop last week as waves of bearishness swamped...
Stocks Cling to Gains After Volatility Shock
Stocks are trying to hold their ground after a brutal volatility shock earlier this month. The S&P 500 rose less than 0.1 percent between Friday, October 12, and Friday, October 19 -- its first gain in three weeks. The index is still down more than 5 percent since...
Cloud IPO Available to TradeStation Clients
A cloud-computing IPO could be coming your way, if you act fast. Software company SolarWinds (SWI) is going public this week, and we've just learned it will be available on our partner ClickIPO. As many clients know, ClickIPO provides direct access to initial public...
Tech Mixed, Industrials Slip: Earnings This Week
Third-quarter earnings season is off to a mixed start, with high-profile names doing little but industrials getting hammered. The most actively traded companies -- Netflix (NFLX), Bank of America (BAC) and JPMorgan Chase (JPM) -- beat estimates but have moved little....