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Has This Bullish Pattern Returned?
Downloads are available here. TradeStation’s ideas on TradingView are available here. Check out our next “State of the Market,” on Monday, 7/21. Sizing Up the Market S&P 500 holds last week’s low of 6201, above February high Tight range resembles earlier breakouts...
Find Opportunities in Any Market With TradeStation: Free Instructional Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48zbPk542XM The stock market is always changing. Sometimes investors focus on technology and growth companies. At other times, they stick with safe havens or traditional, established industries. How can you keep up? This free...
Caution Reigns in the Stock Market as the Fed Gets Hawkish and Omicron Spreads
Stocks remained under pressure last week as the Federal Reserve got hawkish and coronavirus made a comeback in the U.S. The S&P 500 slid 1.9 percent between Friday, December 10, and Friday, December 17. It was the third decline in the last four weeks, with risk-on...
Where Does the Economy Stand With the Fed Tapering? Check Out These 7 Charts
The Federal Reserve deployed historic supports to the economy during the coronavirus pandemic. This week it took major steps toward removing the stimulus by tapering asset purchases more quickly. Policymakers also moved forward interest-rate increases, signaling three...
Options Alert: Heavy Call Volume Appears in the Top Utility Stock
Utilities broke out to new highs yesterday, and an option trader targeted the biggest company in the sector. Check out the call unusual volume in NextEra Energy (NEE): A block of 17,919 December 90 calls traded for $1.A block of 17,919 March 100 calls changed hands at...
Taper Tantrum? High Multiple Growth Stocks Take a Hit Before the Big Fed Meeting
High-multiple growth names crumbled again yesterday as investors brace for tighter monetary policy from the Federal Reserve. Using TradeStation's extensive library of fundamental and technical data, we compared S&P 500 members that fell at least 1 percent on...
Chart of the Day: Mega Candle in Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson is often a dull stock, but it had some exciting price action yesterday. The health care giant dropped 1 percent in the initial seconds of trading, undercutting Friday's low. Buyers immediately came out of the woodwork, driving the stock to its...
Technology & Communication
Options Alert: Call Buyers Target Plug Power After Amazon.com Deal
Options traders are buying the pullback in Plug Power, two weeks after a key deal with Amazon.com. Unusual activity in the provider of hydrogen-fuel technology began less than five minutes after Wednesday's opening bell. Traders initially purchased the 9-September...
Last Week Shows Records Were Made to Be Broken
As the saying goes: Records were made to be broken. Just take the market last week. The S&P 500's decade-long bull run surpassed the lifespan of its previous upward journey in the 1990s. Another record fell on Tuesday, when the Russell 2000 Index hit a new...
New Companies Back on the Rise
Back in the spring, there was a wave of bullishness in initial public offerings. After a few pullbacks, some of those companies are pushing higher again. Take a name like ZScaler (ZS), which provides cloud-computing security services. It chopped around after crushing...
Goldilocks Drives S&P 500 to New Highs
If the longest bull market in history had a patron saint, it would be Goldilocks. This Wednesday marked the 3,453rd session in the uptrend that began on March 9, 2009. That outlasted the earlier run between late 1990 and early 2000. While improving economics and...
Calls Spike as Small Cap Goes Mobile: Options Recap
Last month, Market Insights highlighted a surging maker of smart-phone games. Yesterday, options traders lit up the name. Here's a breakdown of the large transactions detected in Glu Mobile (GLUU): A block of 5,500 September 5.50 calls was bought for $2.04. A block of...