Sunday, November 24, 2024
One of the market’s higher flying stocks this past month took quite the tumble last week. Fastly (FSLY), a cloud, web development company, dropped nearly 30% in one day after lowering revenue guidance ahead of its earnings at the end of the month. Although the actual guidance wasn’t that much lower than previous expectations, the […]
It’s been a long time since Exxon Mobil (XOM) has been in the news. The oil powerhouse used to be the largest company in the world, but now it doesn’t even crack the top 50 companies in terms of market cap. However, the stock was up 5% one day last week after the company made […]
One of the more intriguing current trends in U.S. investing is the growing number of strategic ETFs that have become available to investors. Index investors have typically used ETFs like SPY to capture the action of the broader market. However strategic ETFs represent or emulate an entire trading strategy, rather than just tracking an index […]
Tech remains the most interesting sector when it comes to unusual options activity. Just recently, options traders were very active in Datadog (DDOG) options. DDOG is a software analytics company that just announced a big deal with Microsoft. The stock jumped higher on the news, over 17% on the week of the announcement. So far, […]
Making directional trades in this market isn’t easy. On the one hand, you have high flying stocks that are trading well above reasonable valuations. Trading those types of stocks can be dangerous since they can reverse on a dime. On the other hand, value stocks are dead. Stocks trading below reasonable valuations just seem to […]
Electric vehicle stocks have recently been pulling back, but none more so than Nikola (NKLA). The electric/hydrogen-fueled truck maker had been the darling of the stock market in recent months. However, short selling attacks have sent the stock into a tailspin. The CEO has stepped down and the company appears to be in turmoil. Options […]
Oracle (ORCL) has been in the news quite a bit lately with its potential partnership with Tik Tok, a popular teen video streaming app. The US wants China’s ByteDance to sell Tik Tok to a US company due to national security concerns. Several companies have been in the bidding, but ORCL seems to have won […]
One of the more interesting situations in the investing world over the last couple of months concerns the fate of TikTok, the video streaming app that is hugely popular among teens. This is a target market that most companies are dying to have access to. TikTok is owned by a Chinese company called ByteDance, which […]
Investors have been very high on electric vehicle companies so far this year. While Tesla (TSLA) gets the most press as the leader in the industry, there are several smaller players who have seen plenty of action. One of these companies is Workhorse (WKHS), which makes electric delivery vans. WKHS has gotten a lot of […]
After several weeks of slow and steady climbing, stocks have finally shown vulnerability over the past week. Tech stocks in particular have taken a pretty sizeable beating; however, most of the big-name tech companies are still solidly in the black for the year. Nevertheless, some of the best performers this year are seeing massive selling […]
