Trading

Learn how to develop and implement a trading plan that consists of analyzing the markets, filtering for potential opportunities, assessing risks, executing trades, and evaluating results. 

Looking to the Futures

The S&P MidCap 400 Index offers exposure to stocks in the next-largest tier below the S&P 500.

Weekly Trader's Outlook

Major indices are on track for modest losses as investors navigate concerns around AI disruption, private credit, and geopolitics.

Less Magnificent: Why Mega-Caps Limp Post-Results

Magnificent Seven stocks stumbled after Q4 earnings, continuing a trend and hurting the broad market. Reasons are varied and not likely ending soon, so investor focus is shifting.

Weekly Options: Uses, Risks, and Trade-offs

Learn how weekly stock options can potentially help option traders adjust their exposure during market events like earnings releases or economic announcements.

Trading Psychology: Recovering From Big Losses

A big trading loss can have a lasting impact on a trader's state of mind and hinder successful trading. Learn how to process losses and return to disciplined trading.

Q4 Tech Earnings Preview: The Great Divergence

Info tech earnings continue with Nvidia and Alphabet on deck. Surging memory stocks, beleaguered software industry in focus as investors probe for signs of an AI inflection point.

Q4 Tech Earnings Preview: Leaders, Laggards Shift

Results from tech titans including Microsoft and Apple are on tap soon. Focus remains on cloud growth and spending after some stocks were punished for raising Cap-Ex last quarter.

Stock Market Terminology: 200+ Investing Definitions

Get definitions for more than 200 common investing terms.

Q4 Bank Earnings Preview: Do Results Back Rally?

Big banks begin reporting tomorrow with JPMorgan Chase. Fundamentals may need to be robust to match the sector's recent Wall Street gains, and loan demand could get a close look.

How to Use Heikin Ashi Charts

Heikin ashi charts can potentially help traders identify when trends are likely to reverse. Learn how to read these charts and how to use them when trading.