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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 $483....
Trains Good, Planes Bad: Transports and Traveling After Coronavirus
As the economy staggers back from coronavirus, a split is appearing in the world of transportation. Railroads are thriving and air travel is struggling. Consider these two points from yesterday: The Association of American Railroads reported that train traffic...
Market Pulse: Bitcoin Holds 30K, Tags the 50-day SMA
Bitcoin has bled lower for the last three weeks, but some interesting things appeared on the chart today. Click here to view the related idea and chart analysis on TradingView.
GameStop Has Overtaken Tesla on Google Finance
GameStop's epic short squeeze is a stunning example of how quickly markets can change. A big example of this appeared on Google Trends. This screenshot compares interest in GameStop (GME) and Tesla (TSLA) on Google Finance over the last seven days. A week ago, GME had...
Fubo Could Be Emerging as the Next Sports Betting Stock
Two big sports betting stocks emerged last year. Now a third may be joining the club: Fubo TV. Activity has surged in the streaming-video company lately. As this chart shows, average stock volume has increased from less than 5 million shares a day to over 21 million....
Tesla Is Falling Behind as FANG Stocks Begin to Report Quarterly Results
Stocks broke out to new highs last week, but something changed. For the first time in months, Tesla didn't lead the charge. Traditional Nasdaq companies like Netflix (NFLX), Alphabet (GOOGL) and Apple (AAPL) outperformed the electric-car maker by a wide margin. The...
Tesla’s Incredible Strength Is Spreading Across the Automotive Sector
The success of electric-vehicle makers like Tesla and Nio is spreading bullishness across the entire automotive sector. The DJ Automobile Manufacturers Index ($DJUSAU) has gained 88 percent in the last three months. That's the biggest gain of more than 150 industry...
Cryptocurrency Trading Goes to the Next Level with Bracket Orders
Anyone can place trades, but managing them can be a lot more difficult. That's one reason why bracket orders exist. Bracket orders let investors buy an asset and simultaneously create two sell orders. Entries and risk management are combined into a single task, saving...
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 $483....
Trains Good, Planes Bad: Transports and Traveling After Coronavirus
As the economy staggers back from coronavirus, a split is appearing in the world of transportation. Railroads are thriving and air travel is struggling. Consider these two points from yesterday: The Association of American Railroads reported that train traffic...
Market Pulse: Bitcoin Holds 30K, Tags the 50-day SMA
Bitcoin has bled lower for the last three weeks, but some interesting things appeared on the chart today. Click here to view the related idea and chart analysis on TradingView.
GameStop Has Overtaken Tesla on Google Finance
GameStop's epic short squeeze is a stunning example of how quickly markets can change. A big example of this appeared on Google Trends. This screenshot compares interest in GameStop (GME) and Tesla (TSLA) on Google Finance over the last seven days. A week ago, GME had...
Fubo Could Be Emerging as the Next Sports Betting Stock
Two big sports betting stocks emerged last year. Now a third may be joining the club: Fubo TV. Activity has surged in the streaming-video company lately. As this chart shows, average stock volume has increased from less than 5 million shares a day to over 21 million....
Tesla Is Falling Behind as FANG Stocks Begin to Report Quarterly Results
Stocks broke out to new highs last week, but something changed. For the first time in months, Tesla didn't lead the charge. Traditional Nasdaq companies like Netflix (NFLX), Alphabet (GOOGL) and Apple (AAPL) outperformed the electric-car maker by a wide margin. The...
Tesla’s Incredible Strength Is Spreading Across the Automotive Sector
The success of electric-vehicle makers like Tesla and Nio is spreading bullishness across the entire automotive sector. The DJ Automobile Manufacturers Index ($DJUSAU) has gained 88 percent in the last three months. That's the biggest gain of more than 150 industry...
Cryptocurrency Trading Goes to the Next Level with Bracket Orders
Anyone can place trades, but managing them can be a lot more difficult. That's one reason why bracket orders exist. Bracket orders let investors buy an asset and simultaneously create two sell orders. Entries and risk management are combined into a single task, saving...
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....
Traders Toking Profits as a Red-Hot Space Gets Smoked
Buy the rumor, sell the news. The old adage is playing out today as weed goes legal in Canada. Cannabis stocks have been pretty much the hottest group in the entire market of late, with companies like Tilray (TLRY), New Age Beverages (NBEV) and India Globalization...
Last Earnings Season Was a Tough Act to Follow
Last earnings season was a tough act to follow, but Corporate America is about to give it a try. Per-share profits climbed about 25 percent and revenue rose approximately 10 percent. Both of those gains were the best since the start of the decade. Early indications...