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Key Things to Know About Volatility as Earnings Season Begins

Key Things to Know About Volatility as Earnings Season Begins

Earnings season is just getting started. This post will consider what it means for options, and how traders may want to position for the reports. Implied volatility ("IV") is the key term because it often declines after big events like quarterly results. Traders often...

Stocks Are Back to This Major Level. Here’s What to Watch Next

Stocks Are Back to This Major Level. Here’s What to Watch Next

Stocks are back to key levels as the market looks for the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression to fade. The S&P 500 rose 3 percent between Friday, April 10, and Friday, April 17. The index closed above its 50-day moving average for the first time since...

Monex Crypto Market Weekly: April 17

Monex Crypto Market Weekly: April 17

This post is a translation of the weekly cryptocurrency analysis by Block Insight, a wholly owned subsidiary of Monex Group (Tokyo, Japan). Monex is the parent of TradeStation Group. Summary Bitcoin (BTC) prices recovered mid-week as reports of a pilot version of...

ETF Round-Up: Leaders and Laggards

ETF Round-Up: Leaders and Laggards

Stocks are falling early Wednesday following relief rallies from the major indexes. Small-cap stocks have lagged so far this week as large-cap technology continues to shine. Coming into Wednesday the major index ETFs performance is as follows: the Russell 2000 ETF...

The Market Saw Coronavirus Coming. Now it May See it Ending

The Market Saw Coronavirus Coming. Now it May See it Ending

Money streamed back into equities today as the stock market seemed to anticipate an end to the coronavirus lockdown. All the major indexes climbed at least 2 percent amid signs the outbreak is easing. These events helped fuel the move: Smaller European countries like...

Amazon.com Tries to Rejoin the Trillion Dollar Club as FANG Lags

Amazon.com Tries to Rejoin the Trillion Dollar Club as FANG Lags

Amazon.com is trying to regain an elite status it lost because of coronavirus: a trillion-dollar market capitalization. The e-commerce giant briefly reached that valuation in January after a strong earnings report. It proceeded to drop as much as 26 percent as...

Monex Crypto Market Weekly: April 3

Monex Crypto Market Weekly: April 3

This post is a translation of the weekly cryptocurrency analysis by Block Insight, a wholly owned subsidiary of Monex Group (Tokyo, Japan). Monex is the parent of TradeStation Group. Summary Bitcoin (BTC) prices stabilized and finished the week flat....

Netflix Approaches New Highs as Volatility Fades; Oil Keeps Sliding

Netflix Approaches New Highs as Volatility Fades; Oil Keeps Sliding

Markets bounced again yesterday as investors begin to see light at the end of the coronavirus tunnel. There's no shortage of headlines. So we used TradeStation's award-winning platform to analyze the trends. Here are a few items that stood out. Netflix Is Streaming...