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Safe Havens Lead as Momentum Slows
by David Russell | Oct 23, 2025
The S&P 500 has gone almost two weeks without making a new all-time high.
All Eyes on the 10-Year Treasury Yield
by David Russell | Dec 19, 2024
Downloads are available here. TradeStation’s ideas on TradingView are available here. Check out our next “State of the Market,” on Monday, 1/16. Sizing Up the S&P 500 S&P 500 falls the most since 8/5, hits low of month Prices under 8-, 21-day EMAs, 50-day MA...
Platform Tools for Market Internals and Breadth
by David Russell | Dec 18, 2024
TradeStation’s platform is known for letting customers build their own tools. It also provides a series of calculated indexes for advanced technical analysis. Today's article will cover some of these indicators, which may be especially useful for assessing market...
Chart of the Day: Merck Could Be Sickly
by David Russell | Dec 17, 2024
Merck has struggled for most of the year, and now some traders may look for another push to the downside. The first pattern on today’s chart is the series of higher lows from mid-November through early last week. MRK has dropped below that line, which may be viewed as...
Wall Street Is Bracing for a Less Dovish Fed
by David Russell | Dec 16, 2024
Stocks are falling as traders brace for fewer rate cuts from the Federal Reserve. The S&P 500 slid 0.6 percent between Friday, December 6, and Friday, December 13. It was the first negative week in the last four. More than three-quarters of the index's members...
New Chapter in AI Boom Revives Megacaps
by David Russell | Dec 12, 2024
Downloads are available here. TradeStation’s ideas on TradingView are available here. Check out our next “State of the Market,” on Monday, 12/16. Sizing Up the S&P 500 S&P 500 approaches 6,100 after holding last week's low RSI near overbought is potentially...
Using Fibonacci Retracements on TradeStation
by David Russell | Dec 11, 2024
Stock prices usually zig and zag instead of moving in a straight line. Today we'll explore Fibonacci retracements, a popular tool for navigating ups and downs in stock and futures markets. The Fibonacci ("Fib") tool is a drawing instrument on TradeStation's charts...
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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...
Global Energy Squeeze Revives Interest In Solar Stocks Following a Year of Consolidation
by David Russell | Mar 10, 2022
Solar energy stocks were one of the top performing groups in the pandemic year 2020. Now after a long pause, the global energy shock is reviving the group. SolarEdge Technologies (SEDG) is up 36 percent in the last month, making it the top performing member of the...
Russian Attack Triggers Surprise Rally Across the Beaten Down Nasdaq-100
by David Russell | Feb 25, 2022
Russia attacked Ukraine early on Thursday. After an initial panic, investors had an interesting response: They piled into software and technology stocks that took a beating over the last two months. Take a company like Microsoft (MSFT), which pushed under $272 in the...
Technical Analysis: Is This Social Media Stock Overbought After an Earnings Rally?
by David Russell | Feb 23, 2022
Snap had a sharp rally on February 4 after quarterly results beat estimates. But now its longer-term downtrend may be reasserting itself. The first pattern on today’s chart is the stochastic oscillator. It’s swinging back to the downside after jumping into overbought...
Big Tech Pullback: Check Out These Names Flagged By TradeStation’s Award Winning Platform
by David Russell | Feb 10, 2022
Growth stocks have had endured a major pullback, as most readers know. Today we're sifting through the wreckage with help from TradeStation's award-winning platform. This article used Scanner to discover fast-growing stocks near the bottom of their 52-week ranges....




