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Rates, Geopolitics Cast Gloom Before Earnings: Market Trends This Week

Rates, Geopolitics Cast Gloom Before Earnings: Market Trends This Week

Downloads are available here. TradeStation’s ideas on TradingView are available here. Register for Market Trends here. Sizing Up the S&P 500 S&P 500 has retraced about half its move since breaking 2022 high S&P 500 testing bullish gap from...

Energy Stocks Pull Back But Are Still Leading This Year

Energy Stocks Pull Back But Are Still Leading This Year

Energy stocks have led the market this year, and now they've pulled back. The S&P Select Energy SPDR fund (XLE) jumped to $98.97 last Friday -- the highest level in almost a decade. It pulled back this week and touched $93.73 before bouncing. That was just $0.04...

Options Alert: Traders Position for Potential Drop in Uranium Miner

Options Alert: Traders Position for Potential Drop in Uranium Miner

Uranium miner Cameco has been stuck at an old high, and one big options trader is bracing for a potential drop as earnings approach. This large transaction was detected yesterday in CCJ, unfolding in several blocks over the course of the afternoon: Some 30,000 May 45...

Stocks Have Had a Healthy Pullback. Will Buyers Step In?

Stocks Have Had a Healthy Pullback. Will Buyers Step In?

Stocks have had their biggest pullback since the current rally began. Will buyers step in? The S&P 500 fell 1.6 percent between Friday, April 5, and Friday, April 12. It was the biggest weekly drop since October. The index also touched its 50-day moving average...

Are Rate Cuts Out the Window? Market Trends This Week

Are Rate Cuts Out the Window? Market Trends This Week

Downloads are available here. TradeStation’s ideas on TradingView are available here. Register for Market Trends here. Sizing Up the S&P 500 S&P 500 in midst of first negative month since October Prices break trendline, rising 21-day exponential...

Stocks Pull Back Before Inflation Data and Earnings Season

Stocks Pull Back Before Inflation Data and Earnings Season

Stocks began the second quarter with a pullback as investors worried about higher interest rates and geopolitical risk. The S&P 500 fell almost 1 percent between Thursday, March 28, and Friday, April 5. (Markets were closed on March 29.) It was the biggest weekly...

Bulls Pivot from Rate Cuts to Economic Growth: Market Trends This Week

Bulls Pivot from Rate Cuts to Economic Growth: Market Trends This Week

Downloads are available here. TradeStation’s ideas on TradingView are available here. Register for Market Trends here. Sizing Up the S&P 500 S&P 500 holds 50% of March 15-22 weekly move, March 8 high Trio of key patterns remain: Holds rising...

Stocks Make a 3rd Monthly Record as Buyers Rotate Away from Growth

Stocks Make a 3rd Monthly Record as Buyers Rotate Away from Growth

Stocks hit a new record for the third straight month in March, but there was significant rotation away from growth names and technology The S&P 500 rose 3.1 percent, outpacing the Nasdaq-100 by 1.9 percentage points. It was the biggest underperformance in the...

Chart of the Day: Palantir Stabilizes Above Old Highs

Chart of the Day: Palantir Stabilizes Above Old Highs

Palantir Technologies has advanced as investors embrace AI and non-government customers embrace its products. Is its current pullback offering an opportunity? The first pattern on today’s chart is the pair of rallies after the last two quarterly reports. Those may...