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Cloud IPO Available to TradeStation Clients

Cloud IPO Available to TradeStation Clients

A cloud-computing IPO could be coming your way, if you act fast. Software company SolarWinds (SWI) is going public this week, and we've just learned it will be available on our partner ClickIPO. As many clients know, ClickIPO provides direct access to initial public...

Tech Mixed, Industrials Slip: Earnings This Week

Tech Mixed, Industrials Slip: Earnings This Week

Third-quarter earnings season is off to a mixed start, with high-profile names doing little but industrials getting hammered. The most actively traded companies -- Netflix (NFLX), Bank of America (BAC) and JPMorgan Chase (JPM) -- beat estimates but have moved little....

Energy Waffles as Iran Sanctions Draw Near

Energy Waffles as Iran Sanctions Draw Near

The S&P 500 bounced after last week's sharp drop, but oil hasn't been so lucky. Crude oil futures (@CL) closed yesterday at their lowest level in a month. The weakness comes as news events turn potentially bearish for the commodity. Government statistics on crude...

Health Care and Brazil Remain Strong

Health Care and Brazil Remain Strong

A lot of catalysts are vying for attention after last week's sharp drop, but two earlier trends seem to remain intact. First, health-care stocks enjoyed surprising positive results last earnings season. That made the SPDR Health Care ETF (XLV) the best-performing...

Traders Toking Profits as a Red-Hot Space Gets Smoked

Traders Toking Profits as a Red-Hot Space Gets Smoked

Buy the rumor, sell the news. The old adage is playing out today as weed goes legal in Canada. Cannabis stocks have been pretty much the hottest group in the entire market of late, with companies like Tilray (TLRY), New Age Beverages (NBEV) and India Globalization...

Gas, Gold and the S&P: Strategist Review

Gas, Gold and the S&P: Strategist Review

Stocks are in the midst of a terrible month but some other areas are rallying. In this post, we'll take a deeper look, and focus on some recent calls by strategists. First, the S&P 500 (@ES) lost 5.6 percent of its value in the first half of October. If it holds...

Long-Term Bulls Are Active Today: Options Recap

Long-Term Bulls Are Active Today: Options Recap

Cell phones and natural gas. Those are some big trades in the options market today. Let's start with Sprint (S), which saw the purchase of 20,000 May 7 calls for $0.50 and the sale of 40,000 May 8 calls for $0.21. It's a little complicated, so here's a breakdown of...

History May Favor Bulls This Quarter, Despite Volatility

History May Favor Bulls This Quarter, Despite Volatility

Stocks are coming off their worst week since March, but history may favor the bulls. After all, we're in the fourth quarter -- a time of the year with a strong bias to the upside. Consider some of these points we crunched from TradeStation's wealth of chart data: The...

Hit the “Reset” Button on the Market Slide

Hit the “Reset” Button on the Market Slide

U.S. major stock indexes jumped at the open this morning, enough to make a small dent in the sharp losses of the past two days. The Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq are all on track to post their biggest weekly losses since the week ending March 23rd. Treasury Secretary...