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Brokerage Integration with TipRanks Launched
TradeStation is collaborating with TipRanks to help customers act on research in a single interface. The service uses a secure API to let TradeStation customers access their brokerage accounts from select third-party website. Users can buy and sell stocks and equity...
This Consumer Icon Is Reinventing Itself Again as Coronavirus Fades. Can You Guess November’s Mystery Stock?
The coronavirus pandemic took a heavy toll on companies providing in-person services. This month's mystery stock is no exception, although it's made some big strides lately. Like many great business sagas of the 20th century, its history began on the east coast and...
Jobs, Spending, Travel: The Economy Keeps Getting Better As the Holidays Approach
From employment to manufacturing and spending, the economy continues to improve as the crucial holiday shopping season approaches. Today's non-farm payrolls report featured bullish news on almost every metric. The overall number beat estimates by 25 percent, as key...
Retail Feeding Frenzy as Brick and Mortar Stocks Beat Estimates: Earnings This Week
Traditional retail stocks are having an explosive week as companies like Under Armour report strong earnings. Is it the start of a new trend that will last into yearend? The athletic-apparel company's sales topped estimates by about 5 percent, but earnings were almost...
Options Alert: Ford Motor Calls Rolled Up as Rivian IPO Electrifies the Market
Options traders keep rolling bullish positions in Ford Motor with a key event coming as soon as next week. This large transaction occurred in the Dearborn, Michigan-based automaker shortly before the closing bell yesterday: 20,000 January 20 calls were bought for...
Is It a Good Idea? Learn How to Back Test Trading Ideas Before Risking Capital
Backtesting is can be an important part of refining market strategies. TradeStation's platform includes tools for analyzing trade ideas and methods. This instructional webinar covers how traders can use both long and short entries on an unlimited number of ideas,...
Technical Analysis: Is It Showtime for AMC Entertainment?
AMC Entertainment had a dramatic short squeeze in May and June. Now it may be ready to move again following months of consolidation. The price level around $35 is the first noteworthy pattern on the chart of the movie-theater operator. That was a peak in 2015 and...
Technology & Communication
Chart of the Day: Does Tesla Need to Recharge its Batteries?
Tesla rallied more than 50 percent from its lows of the year through earlier this week. But now it may be running out of juice. The main pattern on today's chart is the price area around $939. It was the opening price on May 5 before TSLA knifed under its 200-day...
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...
Suddenly Tech Is a Margin Story
Technology stocks are usually all about growth, but in the last few days costs have been the talk of the town more recently. Facebook (FB) is the big example, losing a record $119 billion of market value yesterday. Slower growth was part of the problem, but most...
Caution Reigns in Chip Space: Options Recap
Options traders are bracing against a drop in chip makers as earnings season marches on. Here's a breakdown a large bearish spread in the Market Vectors Semiconductor ETF (SMH) yesterday: Roughly 22,000 September 100 puts were bought for $1.85. Roughly 22,000...
Tech Mixed, Industrials Strong: Earnings This Week
It was the best of times and the worst of times. The saying was seldom truer than the past week's earnings reports. Starting with the bad news first, there's one word everyone needs know: Facebook (FB). The social-media giant slammed into a wall of rising costs and...