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Fed Makes Big Pivot to Employment Mandate: Market Trends This Week
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Fed Suggests a Pause as AI Sweeps the Nasdaq: Market Trends This Week
Downloads available here and here. Anchored VWAP and Keltner pullback here. Register for Market Trends here. Sizing Up the S&P 500 S&P 500 sitting between 200-day and 50-day MAsMACD inching higherWeak U.S. dollar, lower yields are...
Technical Analysis: Will Tesla Shares Drive Higher?
Tesla more than doubled between January and mid-February. It retraced almost half that move last month and is now trying to bounce. Will the move continue? The first pattern on today’s chart is the 50-day moving average, which the electric-car maker tested and held at...
Growth Comeback? Nasdaq Surged Last Week Amid Banking Scares
Stocks face a confusing mix of positives and negatives, but the biggest story could be an unexpected surge in the Nasdaq-100. The technology-heavy index rallied 5.8 percent between Friday, March 10, and Friday March 17. In absolute terms, it was the biggest weekly...
Stocks Try to Hold as Bank Fears Drive Volatility: Market Trends This Week
Downloads available here and here. Anchored VWAP and Keltner pullback here. Register for Market Trends here. Sizing Up the S&P 500 S&P 500 tries to hold 50% retracement of the move between October low and February high.Prices try to remain...
Chart of the Day: Tight Consolidation in Semiconductor Equipment Stock
Semiconductors have outperformed lately as investors get excited about demand from artificial intelligence (AI). Today’s chart considers equipment supplier Lam Research . The first pattern is the rising 50-day simple moving average. LRCX has consolidated in a tight...
Rate Fears and Bank Failures Have Sent The Stock Market on a Wild Ride
Stocks are making wild moves as investors pivot from worries about rate hikes to bank failures. The S&P 500 dropped 4.5 percent between Friday, March 3, and Friday, March 10. It was the biggest weekly decline since mid-September. Ninety seven percent of of the...
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Chart of the Day: Tight Consolidation in Semiconductor Equipment Stock
Semiconductors have outperformed lately as investors get excited about demand from artificial intelligence (AI). Today’s chart considers equipment supplier Lam Research . The first pattern is the rising 50-day simple moving average. LRCX has consolidated in a tight...
This Mini Version of the Nasdaq Is Leaving QQQ in the Dust
Big cap technology stocks have struggled for months. But that's not true for their smaller cousins. The below compares the performance of the Invesco Nasdaq Next Gen ETF (QQQJ) with the Invesco QQQ (QQQ). QQQ tracks the Nasdaq-100 index, so it holds the 100 largest...
Nio, Tesla Made November ‘Electric Car Month’ at TradeStation
November was "electric car month" at TradeStation as investors piled into stocks like Nio, Tesla and Xpeng. The surge of activity on our platform followed a rising trend of "ESG" strategies, focused on "environmental, social and governance" priorities. So far, they've...
What Are Value Stocks? How Do I Find Them?
Value stocks have gained popularity this month as investors look for vaccines to end the coronavirus pandemic. This article will consider key things to know: What are value stocks?Why are they going up?How do I find value stocks?Are value stocks good investments? What...
How Do I Find IPOs and SPACs? Video Tutorial on Finding and Assessing New Companies
There's been a resurgence of initial public offerings (IPOs) and special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) this year. Many of these stocks are members of innovative and fast-growing industries like software, electric...