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RadarScreen Is One of TradeStation’s Powerful Tools. Get Started With This Lesson
by David Russell | Sep 21, 2025
RadarScreen™ is one of TradeStation's most powerful tools. If you're new to our platform here are some basics to get you started with this versatile application. What Does RadarScreen Do? First, what does it do? RadarScreen is a customizable grid that can track and...
Fed Worries Ease Before Earnings: Market Trends This Week
by David Russell | Oct 12, 2023
Downloads are available here. TradeStation’s ideas on TradingView are available here. Register for Market Trends here. Sizing Up the S&P 500 S&P 500 reclaims August 2022 high following payrolls bullish outside day MACD turns positive More...
Options Alert: Call Spread Targets New Highs in AMD
by David Russell | Oct 11, 2023
Advanced Micro Devices has climbed in the last two weeks, and options traders are looking for more gains through mid-November. Heavy volume was detected yesterday in two calls expiring next month. The trades occurred in dozens of blocks between about 1pm and 3pm ET....
Outside Days Can Help Spot Reversals in the Stock Market
by David Russell | Oct 9, 2023
Traders often use candlesticks because they show the fullness of price action over different intervals. That can help spot a pattern called "outside days," which this article will cover. An outside day occurs when a stock trades below the previous session's low and...
Stocks Rebounded Last Week as Investors Put Rate Fears Behind Them
by David Russell | Oct 9, 2023
Stocks clawed higher last week as investors stopped worrying about high interest rates. The S&P 500 rose 0.5 percent between Friday, September 29, and Friday, October 6. At one point the index was down 1.7 percent, but it rallied sharply on Friday after...
Chart of the Day: Will Crude Oil Run Again?
by David Russell | Oct 6, 2023
Crude-oil futures are having their worst week since March, but some traders might think about buying the pullback. The first pattern on today’s chart is the price area around 83.50. It represented the peak in December and April. It’s also near the spot where ... For...
S&P 500 Struggles Before Payrolls Report: Market Trends This Week
by David Russell | Oct 5, 2023
Downloads are available here. TradeStation’s ideas on TradingView are available here. Register for Market Trends here. Sizing Up the S&P 500 S&P 500 remains below old support around 4330 Holding above 4200, 200-day MA, with potential for continuation...
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Options Alert: Long-Term Position Stays Bullish on Chip Giant
by David Russell | Sep 25, 2024
Will Broadcom be the next company to achieve a $1 trillion valuation? One big options trader may think so. Check out this unusual activity yesterday in AVGO, which is up more than 50 percent so far this year: 7,000 December 200 calls were purchased for $5.40. 7,000...
E-Commerce Breakouts! Target and JD.com Explode Higher: Earnings This Week
by David Russell | Aug 21, 2020
If you want to know the week that e-commerce officially took over the world, this might have been it. Companies including Minneapolis-based Target (TGT), Beijing-based JD.com (JD) and Singapore-based Sea (SE) rode strong digital trends to new record highs. Meanwhile,...
5 Sports Betting Stocks to Watch Before Football Season Begins
by David Russell | Aug 20, 2020
Barely two years ago, sports betting was legalized in the United States. Now investors are getting excited about sports-betting stocks with football season less than a month away. Roundhill Sports Betting ETF (BETZ) hit a record price yesterday and has made new...
Travel Stocks Gain as Executives See Demand Rebound: Earnings This Week
by David Russell | Aug 14, 2020
The last week of earnings featured mixed results from technology companies and optimism from two prominent travel companies. Cruise-ship operator Royal Caribbean (RCL) and hotel giant Marriott (MAR) predicted demand will continue to recover as the U.S. economy reopens...
Big Shifts Could Be Happening as the Stock Market Keeps Climbing a Wall of Worry
by David Russell | Aug 10, 2020
Stocks began August on a strong footing, with some potentially big changes happening in the market. The S&P 500 rose 2.5 percent between Friday, July 31, and Friday, August 7. The index has now retraced its entire decline since the coronavirus selloff began in...



