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Assessing the Market With Sector Performance
Market internals is a field of technical analysis that considers how companies within the stock market are performing. A recent article covered breadth, and now we'll turn to sector performance. This technique assesses the S&P 500 by comparing price changes of...
Coronavirus High Flier: Tupperware Finds New Life in the Stay-Home Trade
The coronavirus pandemic has lifted all kinds of technology stocks. But it's also fueled rallies in a handful of old-economy stocks. Tupperware is one of them. The maker of plastic containers entered the crisis with years of falling share prices. It lost about 99...
Market Pulse: Bitcoin Is Pushing 2019 Highs
Last week, we cited the unusual relative strength in Bitcoin and its decoupling from the S&P 500. Today we want to look at some other patterns. Click here to view the related idea and chart analysis on TradingView.
Market Pulse: Chips Bouncing at the 50-day SMA
Semiconductors are behaving more bullishly than the rest of the technology sector. Click here to view the related idea and chart analysis on TradingView.
Market Pulse: Big Pullbacks in Sports Betting Stocks
Sports-betting stocks have had giant pullbacks lately. Investors may want to keep an eye on them after the spectacle of the election passes. DraftKings (DKNG) has slid all the way back to its levels from early September. That followed a $1.66 billion stock sale for...
Trump or Biden? Options Traders Are the Real Winners This Year
Regardless of who wins today's elections, options traders are the winners this year. Some 583.7 million calls and puts traded in the U.S. last month, according to TradeStation data. It was a new record for the options market, inching past the volatility-fueled surge...
Market Pulse: Are Chinese Stocks Breaking Out?
Several positive things have happened in China lately. Today we're looking at the iShares Trust China Large-Cap ETF (FXI). Click here to view the related idea and chart analysis on TradingView.
Technology & Communication
Options Activity Alert: Bullish Activity Detected in Square
Square (SQ) has gone nowhere for months, but options traders seem to be keeping the faith. Unusual call volume was detected yesterday in the fintech company run by Jack Dorsey, with two distinct transactions occurring. First, investors amassed more than 15,000 28-May...