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The ‘Sell America’ Trade Might Be Back
The S&P 500 is in a potential range as yields jump and the U.S. dollar falls.
Where Is Money Going? Get Answers With TradeStation’s Relative Strength Tool
Different parts of the market tend to perform better than others at various times. Investors can identify these trends with a few clicks using the relative strength tool on TradeStation's award-winning platform. Relative strength is an indicator available on the Chart...
Cryptocurrencies Are Holding Their Ground as Potential Positives Mount
Cryptocurrencies have been sitting quietly for most of the year as investors digest potential positives like Ethereum's pending upgrade and more institutional adoption. Bitcoin and Ethereum, the two biggest digital assets, are little changed since the first week of...
Pharmaceutical Giant Rallies and Pulls Back. Check out this Technical Analysis.
Pfizer has bounced in March after two negative months, and now it's having a quick pullback. The first pattern on today's chart is the 50-day moving average, which PFE recently crossed above. Other times the pharmaceutical giant moved over (or under) this MA were...
Jerome Powell Plans to ‘Aggressively’ Fight Inflation, Opens the Door to 50-Basis Point Moves
Jerome Powell just opened the door to faster rates hikes as the Federal Reserve looks to "aggressively" fight spiraling prices. "If we conclude that it is appropriate to move more aggressively by raising the federal funds rate by more than 25 basis points at a meeting...
Options Alert: Call Buyer Gives Chinese Tech Stock More Time for a Potential Move
Chinese technology stocks jumped last week, and one big options trader is targeting a former high flier. Check out this unusual options activity in Shanghai-based e-commerce company Pinduoduo (PDD): A block of 15,000 April 50 calls was sold for $1.67 against open...
Tech Stocks Break the Downtrend Despite a Hawkish Fed. Are the Bears Losing Control?
Stocks just had their biggest rally in over a year as a broad cloud of bearishness began to lift, despite an increasingly hawkish Federal Reserve. The S&P 500 rose 6.2 percent between Friday, March, 11, and Friday, March 18. The Nasdaq-100 jumped 8.4 and the Dow...
Technology & Communication
Chart of the Day: Is This Chip Stock Rolling Over?
Advanced Micro Devices has bounced sharply from its early-July lows, but some patterns could be pointing lower for the chip stock. The first pattern on today’s chart is the descending parallel channel that’s been in effect most of the year. AMD’s latest highs...
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...
Uber, Lyft Expected to Lead Mega-IPO Stream in 2019
Initial public offerings (IPOs) just had their busiest year since 2014, opening the door to some massive deals in coming months. Ride-sharing giant Uber and smaller rival Lyft are expected to lead the charge. Press reports in mid-October said Uber was targeting a...
Some Stocks Are Already Hitting New Highs
Major indexes remain well below last year's peaks despite their recent bounce. But some stocks are now trying to break out to new highs -- unfazed by the volatility of late. The screenshot below from TradeStation's Scanner shows several companies at or near 52-week...