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Growing Your Knowledge With TradeStation’s Community Forums
TradeStation is a sophisticated platform with sophisticated users. While it's simple to use, our technology also offers significant opportunities for customization and advanced functionality. This blog will explain some resources to help customers navigate available...
A Certain Chart Pattern Keeps Popping Up as Smaller Tech Stocks Come to Life
Last year saw dramatic rallies in smaller technology stocks like Nio and Snap. This month, several of those same companies have the same potentially bullish chart pattern. The table below lists companies whose 50-day moving averages recently crossed above their...
Is This Stock the Next Tesla or Nio? Check Out This Technical Analysis
Electric cars have been one of the most explosive industry groups in recent memory, and now traders may have another name to focus on: smart-vehicle maker XPeng. Several patterns stand out on the Guangzhou-based company’s chart. First, prices recently tested and held...
Here’s How to Be Ready the Next Time Stocks Pull Back
Stocks just had one of their sharpest pullbacks of the year, creating opportunities for investors able to quickly discover opportunities. The screenshot below shows TradeStation's Scanner tool. It's programmed to detect stocks trending upward before the crash that may...
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...
Technology & Communication
Technical Analysis: Airbnb Could Be Planning a Trip North as ‘Golden Cross’ Looms
Like millions of Americans, Airbnb has been cooped up for a long time. But now the room-sharing stock could be planning a trip north. The first pattern on today's chart is the 50-day moving average climbing toward the 200-day moving average. At its current pace, a...