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Five Reasons Why Stocks Began November With a Giant Blastoff
Stocks began November with a monster rally, and there are at least five reasons why. The S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Dow Jones Industrial Average each had their biggest weekly gains since March. Technology stocks led the charge, along with health care and precious...
Crypto Bull Market Continues to Roar Higher
Summary Cryptocurrencies fluctuated in reaction to the U.S election but finished higher.Bitcoin Cash (BCH) plans to carry out a hard fork (11/15) Bitcoin (BTC) traded in a volatile manner due to uncertainty about the U.S. presidential election and rising COVID-19...
What Are the Top Stocks for Options Trading?
It's been a record year for options trading. But not all stocks are equal in the eyes of options traders. Some symbols are incredibly active, with hundreds of thousands of transactions per day. Others barely trade at all, even if they're large or well-known companies....
Coronavirus High Flier: Tupperware Finds New Life in the Stay-Home Trade
The coronavirus pandemic has lifted all kinds of technology stocks. But it's also fueled rallies in a handful of old-economy stocks. Tupperware is one of them. The maker of plastic containers entered the crisis with years of falling share prices. It lost about 99...
Trump or Biden? Options Traders Are the Real Winners This Year
Regardless of who wins today's elections, options traders are the winners this year. Some 583.7 million calls and puts traded in the U.S. last month, according to TradeStation data. It was a new record for the options market, inching past the volatility-fueled surge...
Uncertainty Runs High in the Stock Market as a Huge Week Begins
There's huge uncertainty in the stock market as investors enter one of the biggest weeks in recent history. The Presidential Election tomorrow won't just determine who sits in the White House. Outcomes in Congress could also have a major impact on fiscal stimulus at...
These Were The Busiest Symbols at TradeStation in October
Tesla was the busiest symbol at TradeStation Securities in October, keeping the No. 1 spot for the fourth straight month. The rankings were little changed this month. Traders continued to focus more on individual stocks than index-based products. Chinese electric-car...
Facebook and Alphabet Get Advertising Boost, Apple Has IPhone Angst: Earnings This Week
Earnings were pretty good for big technology companies like Apple. But are they good enough to overcome jitters about the pandemic and Presidential Election? We're finishing the busiest and most important week of earnings season. The five most-valuable U.S. companies...
Amazon Earnings Are Tonight, Along With Apple and Facebook
It's a huge day for the Nasdaq-100, with some of the biggest and most important stocks issuing results. Amazon.com (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) and Alphabet (GOOGL), three of the market's four companies worth at least $1 trillion, report earnings this afternoon. Facebook...
Five Reasons Why Stocks Began November With a Giant Blastoff
Stocks began November with a monster rally, and there are at least five reasons why. The S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Dow Jones Industrial Average each had their biggest weekly gains since March. Technology stocks led the charge, along with health care and precious...
Crypto Bull Market Continues to Roar Higher
Summary Cryptocurrencies fluctuated in reaction to the U.S election but finished higher.Bitcoin Cash (BCH) plans to carry out a hard fork (11/15) Bitcoin (BTC) traded in a volatile manner due to uncertainty about the U.S. presidential election and rising COVID-19...
What Are the Top Stocks for Options Trading?
It's been a record year for options trading. But not all stocks are equal in the eyes of options traders. Some symbols are incredibly active, with hundreds of thousands of transactions per day. Others barely trade at all, even if they're large or well-known companies....
Coronavirus High Flier: Tupperware Finds New Life in the Stay-Home Trade
The coronavirus pandemic has lifted all kinds of technology stocks. But it's also fueled rallies in a handful of old-economy stocks. Tupperware is one of them. The maker of plastic containers entered the crisis with years of falling share prices. It lost about 99...
Trump or Biden? Options Traders Are the Real Winners This Year
Regardless of who wins today's elections, options traders are the winners this year. Some 583.7 million calls and puts traded in the U.S. last month, according to TradeStation data. It was a new record for the options market, inching past the volatility-fueled surge...
Uncertainty Runs High in the Stock Market as a Huge Week Begins
There's huge uncertainty in the stock market as investors enter one of the biggest weeks in recent history. The Presidential Election tomorrow won't just determine who sits in the White House. Outcomes in Congress could also have a major impact on fiscal stimulus at...
These Were The Busiest Symbols at TradeStation in October
Tesla was the busiest symbol at TradeStation Securities in October, keeping the No. 1 spot for the fourth straight month. The rankings were little changed this month. Traders continued to focus more on individual stocks than index-based products. Chinese electric-car...
Facebook and Alphabet Get Advertising Boost, Apple Has IPhone Angst: Earnings This Week
Earnings were pretty good for big technology companies like Apple. But are they good enough to overcome jitters about the pandemic and Presidential Election? We're finishing the busiest and most important week of earnings season. The five most-valuable U.S. companies...
Amazon Earnings Are Tonight, Along With Apple and Facebook
It's a huge day for the Nasdaq-100, with some of the biggest and most important stocks issuing results. Amazon.com (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) and Alphabet (GOOGL), three of the market's four companies worth at least $1 trillion, report earnings this afternoon. Facebook...
Big Moves in Small Tech
Lots of attention obviously focuses on the biggest stocks, but results from smaller companies have been arguably better this earnings season. This post will review some of those lesser-known names, especially in the e-commerce space. A big one is Match (MTCH). The...
Are Buyers Returning to This Forgotten Corner of Tech?
Disclosure: This post is intended for educational purposes only and isn't intended as a trade recommendation. Most traders love technology stocks. Did you know that a long-forgotten group in the space is ripping higher this month? We're talking about fiber optics....
Consumer Stocks Drift Higher Before Events
Consumer stocks on the rise, just in time for a series of important news events. Of all the major sector-tracking SPDR ETFs, consumer discretionary (XLY) is closest to its 52-week high. (See RadarScreen® below.) That shows bullish sentiment toward the group and may...
Vix under Siege as S&P 500 Fills January Gap
The S&P 500 hit its highest level since late-January as the index fills a "bearish gap." Remember, gaps are patterns on candle-stick charts that show a security jumping up or down from one price zone to another without any transactions between the two. That leaves...
Winning Streak Continues as Volatility Evaporates
Stocks kept climbing last week as volatility dried up and investors rotated into new sectors. The S&P 500 rose 0.8 percent between Friday, July 27, and Friday, August 3. It was the fifth straight weekly gain, good for the index's longest winning streak since...
Even in a Good Market, Some Stocks Are Falling off a Cliff
Even when the market's near record highs, some names are breaking lower. This post will highlight a few of those areas where sentiment remains especially weak. The first area that's jumped out of my RadarScreen® yesterday were the asset managers and mutual-fund...
Riding a megabank on the cheap: Options recap
One big investor is riding a megabank on the cheap, thanks to the leveraging power of options. Bank of America (BAC) has been on the move since late 2016. A large call roll yesterday seemed to show that a money manager is using options as a surrogate for owning...
Big Tech De-fangs the SPY: July at TradeStation
FANG ruled the roost in this month as volatility swept the Nasdaq. The two busiest stocks for TradeStation clients in July were members of the high-tech quartet: Facebook (FB) and Netflix (NFLX). Both crashed from record highs after mediocre quarterly reports raised...
Tech Falls as Earnings and Economic Data Disappoint
Technology stocks took a hit last week, but the broader market still managed a fourth straight gain. The S&P 500 rose 0.6 percent between Friday, July 20, and Friday, July 27. That contrasted with the Nasdaq-100's decline of 0.7 percent. Sub-par earnings and...