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Options Alert: Volume Surges in Oil Giant
BP has been clawing higher, and options traders are getting active.
Ever Heard of Market Breadth? It May Have Pointed to Today’s Violent Selloff
Stocks just had one of their worst sessions of 2021. While it may have surprised some investors, there were potential warning signals for traders using a certain kind of technical analysis: market breadth. Market breadth is the science of using the aggregate...
Bullish, Neutral, Even Bearish: 3 Ways Options Traders Can Use Covered Calls
Covered calls are one of the most common strategies for options traders. While many investors have heard of them, they may not realize that covered calls are highly versatile. This article will cover how the method can be bullish, neutral and even bearish. First, a...
Jerome Powell Stays Dovish: What It Means for Your Money
The Federal Reserve emphasized its commitment to low interest rates yesterday, a move with potentially big implications for investors. "There is still a long way to go," before hiking rates, Fed Chair Jerome Powell told lawmakers in testimony. He added that...
Small Caps Are Struggling: Check Out This Technical Analysis
The S&P 500 keeps hitting new highs, but the Russell 2000 small cap index hasn’t been so fortunate. RUT has gone almost four months without a new record level. In contrast, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Transports haven’t hit a new high in over two months....
Profits Could Jump How Much This Earnings Season?
Earnings season begins today with Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase. It could feature the strongest profit growth in half a generation. Analysts on average forecast a profit increase of 64 percent for the S&P 500, according to FactSet. While that sounds impressive,...
CME Launches Micro Crude Oil Futures With Energy Challenging Multiyear Highs
Investors just got a new tool for trading energy as prices surge: micro contracts on CME's Group's WTI crude oil futures. The new product began trading last night under the symbol root "MCL." It will represent 100 barrels of crude oil, one-tenth the standard WTI...
Technology & Communication
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...