{"id":33286,"date":"2019-08-30T04:29:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T09:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insights.tradestation.com\/?p=33286"},"modified":"2019-08-30T08:27:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T13:27:07","slug":"apple-slips-from-top-spot-amid-volatility-august-at-tradestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tradestation.com\/insights\/2019\/08\/30\/apple-slips-from-top-spot-amid-volatility-august-at-tradestation\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Slips From Top Spot as Volatility Spikes: August at TradeStation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Volatility spiked in August, shifting attention away from individual stocks and toward the indexes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) was the busiest symbol on TradeStation<\/a> since the end of July, ending a four-month reign at the top by Apple (AAPL). Other index-linked products returned to the top 10, displacing popular equities like Netflix (NFLX) and Facebook (FB). <\/p>\n\n\n\n This pattern, taught at our Master Class sessions<\/a>, is common at times of volatility because emotional fear causes the whole market to move together. Big investors respond by focusing on ETFs like SPY or the PowerShares QQQ Trust (QQQ), which tracks the Nasdaq-100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here’s the complete list for August:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The following symbols exited the top 10:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Volatility spiked in August, shifting attention away from individual stocks and toward the indexes. SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) was the busiest symbol on TradeStation since the end of July, ending a four-month reign at the top by Apple (AAPL). Other index-linked products returned to the top 10, displacing popular equities like Netflix (NFLX) and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":13549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,24,13,30],"tags":[115,129,116,821,113,174,146,181,144,623,177,180,788],"yoast_head":"\n