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Big Caps on the Move: Scanning for Breakouts in the Dow

Big Caps on the Move: Scanning for Breakouts in the Dow

It's pretty quiet today as stocks drift aimlessly before Labor Day. Dog days of summer? More like the sloth days ... Still, some members of the Dow Jones Industrial Average are melting to new highs even as the broader market snoozes in the shade. Here's a quick tool...

Why Strategies Are at the Heart of TradeStation

Why Strategies Are at the Heart of TradeStation

Trading strategies lie at the heart of TradeStation. The reasons are simple. Emotions cloud our judgment. Picking entries and exits causes stress. It's also hard for mere mortals to maintain consistency -- particularly when managing risk. That's where TradeStation...

How Transports Are Moving in Very Different Directions

How Transports Are Moving in Very Different Directions

How schizophrenic is the transportation sector? Look no further than yesterday's headlines. On one hand, analysts at JPMorgan raised price targets on major railroads like CSX (CSX), Union Pacific (UNP) and Norfolk Southern (NSC). All three inched lower along with the...

Guess Who Out-traded Apple and Facebook Yesterday: Options Recap

Guess Who Out-traded Apple and Facebook Yesterday: Options Recap

Normally big tech companies dominate activity in the options market. But not yesterday. The busiest underliers, after all, are usually companies like Apple (AAPL), Facebook (FB), Micron Technology (MU) and Nvidia (NVDA). But on Wednesday all of those were outdone by a...

Going to the next level with chart trading

Going to the next level with chart trading

Traders love charts, and they love to trade. Did you know you can combine those two passions with TradeStation's Chart Trading functionality? This feature lets customers place and adjust orders directly on the chart. That's great for pinning entries and exits to key...

Going Mobile for Earnings: TradeStation Tutorial

Going Mobile for Earnings: TradeStation Tutorial

Plenty of customers were trading Apple (AAPL) yesterday before the company's earnings report. Even if they didn't log from their desks, they still could have placed orders on the go using TradeStation's uber-powerful Mobile App. In case you haven't installed it yet,...

Suddenly energy is flying

Suddenly energy is flying

Energy's gone from forgotten to en fuego quicker than you can say "missiles over Damascus." Crude oil (@CL) hit $67.45 this morning, its highest level in 2-1/2 years. It's up almost 8 percent on the week, its biggest three-session rally since December 2016. There are...

Window Linking: Ideal Tool in Volatile Markets

Window Linking: Ideal Tool in Volatile Markets

It's easy to lose track of things when the market swings wildly like it did last week. So, let's review a TradeStation feature that's especially handy in times of volatility: Window linking. As most users know, the platform consists of several different "apps"......

Has General Electric Finally Bottomed?

Has General Electric Finally Bottomed?

This post is for education purposes only and should not be interpreted as a trade recommendation. General Electric (GE) has been a member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average for over a century, and at one point was the biggest company in the world. As most traders...