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Options Alert: Puts Are Surging in Blue Owl
by David Russell | Feb 6, 2026
Blue Owl Capital has been skidding lower, and options traders could see more downside risk.
Chart of the Day: CrowdStrike Is in a Small Club
by David Russell | Apr 11, 2025
The broader market has been tumbling for months, but CrowdStrike has stood its ground. The first pattern on today’s chart is the March 10 low of $303.79. While the Nasdaq-100 has revisited levels from over a year ago, CRWD has held lows from a month prior. Support at...
Tariffs Slashed After Bond Freakout
by David Russell | Apr 10, 2025
Downloads are available here. Our new MT ES v2 workspace is here. TradeStation’s ideas on TradingView are available here. Check out our next “State of the Market,” on Monday, 4/14. Next Market Trends is on 4/17. Sizing Up the Market S&P 500 may face range between...
Are Retailers Ground Zero for Tariff Wars?
by David Russell | Apr 9, 2025
VF, the parent of North Face, is falling more sharply than it did in 2008 or 2020.
Options Alert: Record Volume in Tech Stock
by David Russell | Apr 8, 2025
Teradyne has been plunging for almost a year, and yesterday it had record options volume. A single large transaction accounted for most of the activity in the company, which supplies testing equipment for semiconductors and robotics: Some 29,383 June 70 puts traded...
Tariff Stunner Puts Stock Buyers on Strike
by David Russell | Apr 7, 2025
Wall Street is on recession watch amid “Armageddon” and “stagflationary purgatory.”
Tariffs Put Earnings, Economy on Watch
by David Russell | Apr 3, 2025
Downloads are available here. TradeStation’s ideas on TradingView are available here. Check out our next “State of the Market,” on Monday, 4/7. Sizing Up the Market S&P 500 stalls at 8-day EMA, 3/27 close Stalls below of 5,700 Consolidates under 200dma @ES swung...
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AI Stocks Go Back to Work Before the Fed
by David Russell | Sep 15, 2025
AI stocks are going back to work as investors wait for a big Federal Reserve meeting.
Technical Analysis: Tight Consolidation in Another Clean Energy Stock
by David Russell | Sep 14, 2022
Clean-energy stocks have been one of the strongest parts of the market lately, and today’s chart focuses on a new battery-tech name: Stem. The first pattern is the quick uptrend in late summer, fueled by the Inflation Reduction Act and strong quarterly results on...
Options Alert: Call Volume Swells in Apple as IPhone 14 Hits the Market
by David Russell | Sep 13, 2022
The options activity may be turning bullish in Apple as the smart-phone giant rolls out the iPhone 14. Some 1.1 million call contracts traded in AAPL yesterday. That was the most since the earnings came out in late July, according to TradeStation data. Our analytics...
Technical Analysis: ON Semi’s Breakout and Pullback
by David Russell | Sep 9, 2022
ON Semiconductor is one of the few chip stocks to hit new highs this summer. It then pulled back along with the rest of the market, and is now bouncing. The first pattern on today's chart is the falling trendline along the peaks of January, March and June. ON broke...
Options Alert: Call Buyers Target Plug Power After Amazon.com Deal
by David Russell | Sep 8, 2022
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...



