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Options Alert: Call Volume Swells in Apple as IPhone 14 Hits the Market

Options Alert: Call Volume Swells in Apple as IPhone 14 Hits the Market

The options activity may be turning bullish in Apple as the smart-phone giant rolls out the iPhone 14. Some 1.1 million call contracts traded in AAPL yesterday. That was the most since the earnings came out in late July, according to TradeStation data. Our analytics...

Chart of the Day: Is It Time to Go Back to the Well in Occidental?

Chart of the Day: Is It Time to Go Back to the Well in Occidental?

Occidental Petroleum is the biggest gainer in the S&P 500 this year, but was the biggest decliner last week. Is the dip an opportunity for the bulls? The first pattern on today's chart is the surge to a new 52-week high in late August. It is one of only 12 S&P...

Stocks Hold Key Support as the Bulls Face a Wall of Worry

Stocks Hold Key Support as the Bulls Face a Wall of Worry

Stocks just held key support as strong economic data overshadowed persistent bearishness. The S&P 500 just had its first positive week in the last four. Ninety-three percent of the index’s members advanced, along with every major sector.

Technical Analysis: ON Semi’s Breakout and Pullback

Technical Analysis: ON Semi’s Breakout and Pullback

ON Semiconductor is one of the few chip stocks to hit new highs this summer. It then pulled back along with the rest of the market, and is now bouncing. The first pattern on today's chart is the falling trendline along the peaks of January, March and June. ON broke...

Art of TradeStation: Candlesticks and Advanced Alerting

Art of TradeStation: Candlesticks and Advanced Alerting

Candlesticks like hammers, dojis and outside bars can help stock traders anticipate changes in direction. TradeStation’s award-winning platform has tools for detecting a wide range of candlesticks and other patterns. Alerts can also be linked to popular studies like...

Options Alert: Call Buyers Target Plug Power After Amazon.com Deal

Options Alert: Call Buyers Target Plug Power After Amazon.com Deal

Options traders are buying the pullback in Plug Power, two weeks after a key deal with Amazon.com. Unusual activity in the provider of hydrogen-fuel technology began less than five minutes after Wednesday's opening bell. Traders initially purchased the 9-September...

Lithium and Battery Stocks Climb as Investors Focus on Clean Energy

Lithium and Battery Stocks Climb as Investors Focus on Clean Energy

Battery stocks have climbed recently as investors focus on green energy. Today we'll examine some companies focused on this new corner of the market. This article will cover two established companies shifting to lithium production: Albemarle (ALB) and Sociedad Quimica...

Stocks Keep Diving With the Fed Still Pushing Interest Rate Hikes

Stocks Keep Diving With the Fed Still Pushing Interest Rate Hikes

Stocks keep diving as the Federal Reserve menaces investors with aggressive interest-rate hikes. The S&P 500 fell 3.3 percent between Friday, August 26, and Friday, September 2. It was the third straight negative week, with over 90 percent of the index's members...

Stocks Fall as The Fed Battles Inflation: August in Review

Stocks Fall as The Fed Battles Inflation: August in Review

Stocks fell in August as investors focused on the likelihood of more interest rate hikes from the U.S. Federal Reserve. There was also profit taking after July's big rally. Attention in September will probably continue to focus on inflation with the next central bank...