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A New Bull Market? Stocks Hit a New 52-Week High as Recession Fears Ease
Stocks rebounded sharply to end June as cooling inflation and strong economic data spurred hopes of a new bull market. The S&P 500 rose 2.3 percent between Friday, June 23, and Friday, June 30. It was the sixth positive week in the last seven. The index also had...
Good News Still Coming for the U.S. Economy
Some big reports last week showed widening improvements for the U.S. economy. In case you missed them, let's take a look at the big themes. First, employment growth continued unabated. ADP's private-sector payrolls and the Labor Department's non-farm payrolls both...
Big Nasdaq Names Lead the Charge: January at TradeStation
TradeStation clients kept their focus on the Nasdaq in January, with stocks on the exchange enjoying their biggest rally in three years. Nine of the 10 busiest symbols on our platform last month were listed on the Nasdaq. Most of the top names were prominent large-cap...
Big Tech Strikes Back: Earnings This Week
Big tech results weren't so bad after all: That's the main takeaway from the busiest week of earnings season. Facebook (FB), Apple (AAPL), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Alibaba (BABA) rallied 7 to 16 percent after reporting. Not all beat estimates, but each...
TradeStation’s Charts Just Got Even Better
TradeStation's awesome charting just got better. The platform already lets you run dozens of studies, automate strategies and place orders directly from the price bars. Now its latest update includes powerful dragging functionality let clients assess market conditions...
This Week’s Market Action: January 28
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 fast-paced, all-encompassing breakdown of big trades, sectors, trends, equities, derivatives and events. It's...
Guess What Chart Just Had a ‘Golden Cross’
A potentially bullish signal has appeared in gold as the market anticipates dovish policy from the Federal Reserve. The 50-day moving average on gold futures (@GC) rose through the 200-day moving average this week. That pattern, ironically known as a "golden cross,"...
Technology & Communication
E-Commerce and the Cloud Have Taken Over the World: Earnings Season Recap
Earnings season is pretty much finished, and the main story wasn't Covid-19. Instead, it was the complete dominance of e-commerce and cloud computing. Megacap Internet companies like Amazon.com (AMZN), Facebook (FB) and Alphabet (GOOGL) climbed on strong results. They...