Thursday Morning Coffee with TradingMarkets
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U.S. Stocks Soar … Apple Smashes Earnings Estimates … Asian Stocks Rally on Government Stimulus … Chinese Growth at 6.8% for Q4, Slowest in Years … Earnings on Deck for Today Include: AMD, GOOG, MSFT, LMT, NOK …
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TradingMarkets 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Today |
Here are 7 stocks for traders for today from TradingMarkets.com:
- Apple
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PowerRating). Analysts are expecting Google to announce earnings per share of 4.96. For its part, Microsoft is expected to report EPS of 49 cents.
For a list of today’s highest PowerRating stocks, click here.
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TradingMarkets 5 PowerRatings Stocks for Today |
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| Usec Inc. | USU | 8 |
| iShares iBoxx Inv. Grade Corp Bond ETF | LQD | 8 |
| iShares Barclays 20+ Yr Treasury Bond ETF | TLT | 7 |
| SkyWest Inc. | SKYW | 7 |
| Ryanair Holdings PLC | RYAAY | 7 |
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TradingMarkets Making Great Traders |
How to Take the Emotion Out of Trading – TradingMarkets
These are very hard times in the markets and one of the hardest things that traders can face is uncertainty. TradingMarkets contributor Nazy Massoud discusses five steps traders can take to manage their emotional risk while trading in volatile market conditions.
Combining Trading Strategies to Improve Your Odds – TradingMarkets
The more learned and skilled a trader becomes, the greater degree of orderliness and predictability they see in measured price movements. TradingMarkets contributor Austin Passamonte discusses two trading strategies to keep traders on the correct side of pending price direction.
Financial stocks rebounded on Wednesday following a steep sell-off the day before. As such, financially-related exchange traded funds from the Financial Select Sector SPDRS to the ProShares Ultra Financials ETF posted gains on the day.
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TradingMarkets Daily PowerRatings Analysis |
PowerRatings and the Magic of Mean-Reverting Markets – TradingMarkets
With stocks soaring into overbought territory below the 200-day moving average, you don’t have to be a mean-reversion trader to know which way the market is likely to move next – but it helps!
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