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Stocks Approach August Highs Amid Talk of a New Bull Market
Talk of a new bull market is buzzing on Wall Street with the Federal Reserve expected to stop raising interest rates. The S&P 500 rose 0.4 percent between Friday, June 2, and Friday, June 9. It was the fourth straight positive week, the index's longest winning...
Bullish Narrative Potentially Returns to Oil
Just as quickly as they appeared, oil bears are on the run. Crude oil futures (@CL) closed at their highest level yesterday since July 10, bolstered by a series of positive headlines: Weekly inventories fell by 2.6 million barrels, more than twice the expected drop....
More Techs Coming to Life
Tech stocks keep jumping as stocks nudge higher. Yesterday, we covered how names like Apple (AAPL) and Cisco Systems (CSCO) were sneaking to new highs. Today that trend continued as other prominent technology stocks also hit new records. First and foremost is...
This Week’s Market Action: August 27
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 found below. Market Action is fast-paced, all-encompassing breakdown of big trades, sectors, trends, equities, derivatives and events. It's...
Someone Just Made a Killing in this Software Stock: Options Recap
Someone made a killing in a cloud-software company. Just look at the options. Call volume spiked yesterday in Workday (WDAY), which shot to a new all-time high on Tuesday and is up 23 percent in the last month. It looks like the investor rang the register on a winning...
Big Caps on the Move: Scanning for Breakouts in the Dow
It's pretty quiet today as stocks drift aimlessly before Labor Day. Dog days of summer? More like the sloth days ... Still, some members of the Dow Jones Industrial Average are melting to new highs even as the broader market snoozes in the shade. Here's a quick tool...
Greek of the Week: Theta
This is the third installment of a four-part series about options Greeks on Market Insights concluding Labor Day week. So far, we've looked at delta and gamma. This week, we'll turn to theta. Theta: T is for "time decay." Theta measures how much time value an option...
Technology & Communication
Should This Industry Replace Transports in Dow Theory?
Something weird is happening in the market: Transportation stocks are dead in the water as almost everything else rallies. This pattern runs contrary to "Dow Theory," one of the most cherished concepts in the history of investing. Created by journalist Charles Dow in...