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Market Action Summary: 12/3/18

Market Action Summary: 12/3/18

Click here to register for the webinar, which begins at 4:30 p.m. ET. S&P 500 Overview: Careful Near Top of Range Top of channel forming near 2800 after best week in 7 years. S&P 500 stochastic overbought, last 3% over 10DMA. Jumble of moving averages suggests...

Will a Tariff Ceasefire Lead to a Lasting Peace?

Will a Tariff Ceasefire Lead to a Lasting Peace?

Stocks are rallying today after the U.S. and China agreed to suspend their trade war. But will it lead to a lasting peace? That's the important question because a lot can happen during the 90-day delay. The immediate positive is that an increase in U.S. tariffs from...

Bulls Ran Wild Last Week After Fed Backed Down

Bulls Ran Wild Last Week After Fed Backed Down

Stocks Just had their best week in seven years as the Federal Reserve turned dovish. The S&P 500 surged 4.9 percent between Friday, November 23, and Friday, November 30 -- its biggest weekly gain since December 2011. More than nine-tenths of its members advanced,...

Matrix Lets You Trade the Market at a Glance

Matrix Lets You Trade the Market at a Glance

TradeStation's arsenal of trading and analysis tools gives you advantages once enjoyed only by professional traders. One of our most popular features is the Matrix. It lets you see market activity at a glance and instantly place trades at the price level you want. A...

Guess What Index Just Had a Great Week

Guess What Index Just Had a Great Week

Transportation stocks just had their best week in a year. The Dow Jones Transportation Average ($DJT) advanced 4.35 percent since the close on Friday, November 23. Big names like Union Pacific (UNP), Delta Air Lines (DAL) and United Parcel Service (UPS) were among the...

Blue Chip Crashes the Top 10: November at TradeStation

Blue Chip Crashes the Top 10: November at TradeStation

A new company just crashed its way into TradeStation's monthly top 10: General Electric (GE). GE was the sixth most active symbol for our clients in November, up from 13th in October and 20th in September. Its increased popularity came as slowing business, management...

Can This Social Media Stock Double in the Next Year?

Can This Social Media Stock Double in the Next Year?

A social-media stalwart got hammered yesterday, and someone positioned for a major rebound. Twitter (TWTR) fell almost 9 percent about halfway through the morning. As it clawed its way back to cut those losses, a trader amassed about 80,000 January 2020 70 calls for...

Is the Nightmare Over? Options Trader Sees Huge Rebound

Is the Nightmare Over? Options Trader Sees Huge Rebound

October was a painful month, but now a big options trader is looking for the entire selloff to reverse. Here's a breakdown of the massive call volume detected yesterday morning in the market-tracking SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY): A block of 75,000 December 288 calls was...

Popular Chip Stock Holds Key Level Into G20

Popular Chip Stock Holds Key Level Into G20

One of the most heavily traded names in the chip space is holding a potentially key level. Micron Technology (MU) dropped 38 percent from the start of June through yesterday. But now the giant producer of memory circuits is holding its ground above $36.50, an old peak...