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Using the Platform: Sector Performance May Be Confirming New Bull Market
The S&P 500 keeps hitting new 52-week highs, but how strong is the rally? Today's post will use TradeStation's award-winning platform to diagnose the health of the move. The method will use the RadarScreen tool to compare the price performance of various sectors....
Comex Gold Futures: Contract of the Week
Gold's one of the world's oldest measures of value. It's also one of of the most actively traded commodities, thanks to CME's Comex Gold Futures. These contracts use the symbol root GC and track 100 troy ounces of gold. That means every point represents $100 of change...
This Week’s Market Action: March 4
Did you miss this week’s Market Action webinar with David Russell and Don Pratl? Here’s a link to the summary, and the replay is shown above. Market Action is a fast-paced, all-encompassing breakdown of big trades, sectors, trends, equities, derivatives and events....
Market Action Summary: 3/4/19
S&P 500 Overview: Battle for 2800 Outside day on S&P 500, biggest range (49 points) since January 4MACD slowing, stochastic has been overbought.Breadth still mostly positive, led by risk-on sectors like financials and technology.New leadership potentially...
Haves and Have Nots in the Health Care Sector
Market Insights has covered the split between the new winners and losers in technology. Something similar seems to be underway in the health-care sector. Drug makers whose products offer the promise of growth have led. These includes biotechnology stocks, which keep...
Stocks Pause at Key Levels Everyone’s Talking About
Stocks kept testing a key resistance level last week amid signs of a potential economic slowdown. The S&P 500 rose 0.4 percent between Friday, February 22, and Friday, March 1. That helped deliver a 3 percent gain for February. It was also the ninth positive week...
Foot Locker Highlights Standout Sneaker Trade
Most retail stocks are well below their 52-week highs, but one niche in particular is breaking out: sneaker and footwear companies. Foot Locker's (FL) blowout quarter today is the latest example of the trend. Not only did earnings and revenue beat estimates. The key...
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Stocks Bounce, But Is the Coronavirus Pandemic Really Getting Better?
Stocks are bouncing at a key level as the economy tries to recover from the coronavirus pandemic. The S&P 500 tested below 3,000 early on Monday, only to stabilize and jump higher. It then squeezed into a tight range, ending with a 1.9 percent gain on the week....