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How to Get the Most Out of TradeStation

How to Get the Most Out of TradeStation

TradeStation has more tools than you can shake a stick at. Countless professionals use the award-winning platform to analyze the market and automate trades, but are you getting the most from its functionality? You can find out the week of March 5-9. That's when our...

Morning Notes Jan. 29, 2018

Morning Notes Jan. 29, 2018

Personal Income and Outlays Report was issued this morning. This report breaks out December's consumer numbers, including inflation data, from last week's fourth-quarter GDP report. Personal income rose 0.4 percent in December with wages and salaries up 0.5 percent....

Suddenly Latin America is Red Hot

Suddenly Latin America is Red Hot

Move over China, here comes Brazil. Global stocks have outperformed domestics since last spring, mostly led by Chinese equities. But in the last week or so there's been a sudden gush into a region that many traders may have forgotten: Latin America. The region's...

Mnuchin Hammers Greenback in Major Policy Shift

Mnuchin Hammers Greenback in Major Policy Shift

Twenty-three years of policy out the window? That's what might have just happened. After all, government officials have spoken in favor of a strong U.S. dollar since Robert Rubin's tenure. Democrat or Republican, economic expansion or recession: It's been the mantra....

Trust the Trend but Verify: Price Headly

Trust the Trend but Verify: Price Headly

Buy at support, sell at resistance, but always back-test. That was the message from our pro trader this morning. Price Headly, founder of BigTrends.com, runs Donchian channels on his TradeStation platform to time entries and exits. Like many other power users, he's...

Bloom Coming off the Tech Rose?e?

Bloom Coming off the Tech Rose?e?

The year 2017 was undeniably dominated by Technology. Megacaps like Apple (AAPL), Facebook (FB) Alphabet (GOOGL) climbed to new highs. Semiconductors giants like Micron (MU) and Nvidia (NVDA) weren't far behind as foundries basked in record orders from datacenters, AI...

Massive Rotation Underway as Optimism Spreads

Massive Rotation Underway as Optimism Spreads

Some people may confuse energy and utility stocks, but they're not likely to make that mistake right now. Energy's up 4.5% in the last week, compared with a 4.8% drop for utilities over the same time frame. The resulting 9.3 percentage-point difference is the widest...

‘Dow Theory’ Potentially at Play in 2018

‘Dow Theory’ Potentially at Play in 2018

"Keep an eye on the transports." It's one of the oldest adages of market watchers. The theory is the railroads, truckers and airlines are forward-looking indicators on the economy and broader market. Increased shipments and travel signal improving business...

Bitcoin Volumes Swell as Crypto Goes Mainstream

Bitcoin Volumes Swell as Crypto Goes Mainstream

Bitcoin had its busiest day ever on financial exchanges yesterday as a second major product rolled out. CME's futures (symbol BTC) had volume of more than 1,000 in their first session of trading. Each contract controls 5 coins. Cboe's product (symbol XBT), which...