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Here’s What to Do When Stocks You’ve Never Heard of Are Moving

Here’s What to Do When Stocks You’ve Never Heard of Are Moving

Earnings season can be tricky because so many companies have news and are moving. Fortunately, you can stay on top of everything with TradeStation. The screenshot below shows a work space that can help. It contains three apps available to all clients: RadarScreen®: A...

Gold Miners Seem to Struggle as Fear Bubble Deflates

Gold Miners Seem to Struggle as Fear Bubble Deflates

Gold miners rallied hard over the summer, but now face a potentially big test. The Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX) rose more than 50 percent between late May and early September. The main reasons were rate cuts by the Federal Reserve and worries about the global...

Moving Averages: Key Indicator for Technical Analysis of the Stock Market

Moving Averages: Key Indicator for Technical Analysis of the Stock Market

Averaging is one of the most basic things we all do with math. It smooths out big sets of numbers and helps us grasp bigger patterns. Technical analysts use the same approach with the stock market, often finding opportunities to buy and sell in the process. Moving...

Inverted Heads & Shoulders Appearing Across the Market

Inverted Heads & Shoulders Appearing Across the Market

A potentially bullish reversal pattern is appearing across the market: inverted heads and shoulders. This chart formation involves two higher lows on either side of a lower low. It's the opposite of a bearish head and shoulders, and is sometimes viewed as a sign that...

What You Need to Know About Risk Management

What You Need to Know About Risk Management

Most investors like finding stocks they think will move. And most are eager to place trades. But they often overlook risk management because it's less fun. This is one of the biggest mistakes people make when starting in the market. Survival Matters More Than Anything...

Key Lessons From TradeStation’s Latest Options Training Session

Key Lessons From TradeStation’s Latest Options Training Session

Last weekend, TradeStation's education team hosted a knowledge-packed training event on options. It was a great opportunity for someone like me, a perennial stock trader, to learn more about calls and puts. In case you missed it, I took notes. Here are some of the key...

Charles Dow: Wall Street Legend

Charles Dow: Wall Street Legend

Charles Dow Founded The Wall Street Journal Charles Dow was a late-19th century newspaper reporter in New York with a passion for the stock market. He and his partner, Edward Jones, delivered a concise and straightforward coverage of the market. At a time when most...

Yesterday’s Selloff Had Some Important Lessons For Traders

Yesterday’s Selloff Had Some Important Lessons For Traders

Stocks fell again yesterday, illustrating three important lessons for traders. The first lesson is that activity focuses on indexes and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) when the market crashes. For example, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) traded more than 6.1 million...

Getting Started With Technical Analysis

Getting Started With Technical Analysis

Individuals beginning in the stock market soon encounter the world of technical analysis. Terms like "support," "resistance" and "trends" are all over the news and Internet. You could spend a lifetime reading them and still be confused, so in this series we'll get you...