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Stocks Keep Climbing Before the Fed: Will Jerome Powell Finally Slow Down?

Stocks Keep Climbing Before the Fed: Will Jerome Powell Finally Slow Down?

Will Jerome Powell finally hit the brakes? Stocks could be moving like the Federal Reserve is near the end of its rate-hiking cycle. The S&P 500 rose 4 percent between Friday, October 21, and Friday, October 28. It was the second weekly gain of at least 4 percent,...

Options Alert: Call Buyers Target Plug Power After Amazon.com Deal

Options Alert: Call Buyers Target Plug Power After Amazon.com Deal

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...

Chart of the Day: Is it Prime Time for Amazon.com?

Chart of the Day: Is it Prime Time for Amazon.com?

Amazon.com has retraced almost all of its pandemic gains. Is this an opportunity for buyers? Let's consider some chart patterns. First is the $101.79 level (split adjusted). It was a peak in July 2019 and a breakout area immediately before the coronavirus selloff in...

Recession Fears Swelled Last Week. Is That Good News for the Nasdaq?

Recession Fears Swelled Last Week. Is That Good News for the Nasdaq?

Stocks fell again last week as recession worries increased, but there could be some positives as the second half begins. The S&P 500 fell 2.2 percent between Friday, June 24, and Friday, July 1. The decline finished another negative quarter, however a bigger story...

AMD Was the Busiest Symbol at TradeStation for the Fifth Straight Month

AMD Was the Busiest Symbol at TradeStation for the Fifth Straight Month

Advanced Micro Devices made new lows in June, but it remained the most actively traded symbol at TradeStation Securities for the fifth straight month. AMD declined as investors shunned economically sensitive semiconductor stocks. It's lost more than half its value...

Global Fears Distract from Earnings as Advanced Micro and Meta Surge

Global Fears Distract from Earnings as Advanced Micro and Meta Surge

Earnings season is normally a big time for the stock market, but these days investors have bigger fish to fry. Companies including Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT) and Tesla (TSLA) barely moved after issuing quarterly results. Each beat estimates on both the top and...