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The Ideal Trade For This Nervous Pre-Election Market
2024 Oct 31, 12:32pm | 660We are sitting in chart environments where spikes into higher prices are getting sold off into the election cycle. Chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM) also sells off its spikes before running higher. This makes for an ideal candidate for the trade environment ahead. Here's the TSM trade I'm...
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C-Suite Buy of the Week: REIT Edition
2024 Oct 31, 10:22am | 1532Dear Benzinga Member,One of Wall Street’s best-kept secrets is the consistent outperformance of REITs since 1972. This was whenthe National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts and some large real estate developers successfullylobbied for legislative and tax changes, creating the...
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C-Suite Buy of the Week: General American Investors, Inc. ($GAM)
2024 Oct 31, 10:05am | 1349Things just got interesting at a 97-year-old mutual fund. General American Investors is a closed-end fund that opened in 1927 during the boom years of the 1920s. When this fund started investing capital for its shareholders, bathtub gin flowed, and the flappers did the can-can. General American...
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How To Trade Today's AMD Earnings
2024 Oct 29, 2:48pm | 787AMD is about to post earnings soon after this hits your inbox, after markets close today (along with GOOGL). Options traders are staking some big claims about what the outcome of that earnings release will be. But before I get into where I think AMD will land, I'd like to go over a few points....
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Buy These 3 "Boring" Stocks From Peter Lynch
2024 Oct 28, 1:36pm | 543Mutual-fund manager Peter Lynch is one of the most successful mutual-fund managers of all time. His average annual return of 29% from 1977 to 1990 would have turned a $10,000 investment into nearly $150,000. And in his book "One Up on Wall Street," he described the best possible stock: First, its...
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2 Stocks About To Trigger The Market's Single Best Indicator
2024 Oct 25, 1:07pm | 1255The 200-day moving average is the king of the line-in-the-sand indicators for many old-school traders. Legendary trader Paul Tudor Jones was interviewed by self-help guru Tony Robbins and said, “My metric for everything I look at is the 200-day moving average of closing prices. I’ve...
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The Single Best Way To Trade Apple's Upcoming Earnings
2024 Oct 24, 1:06pm | 464Apple’s (AAPL) earnings are scheduled for a week from today, on October 31 after the market closes. This presents an opportunity to swing for the fences with a cheap long strangle – that is, a long call and a long put that will deliver outsized returns if and only if traders push AAPL's...
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The Stat Explaining Why The Stock Market Gets So Much Negative News Coverage
2024 Oct 23, 10:46am | 1262The stock market climbed to all-time highs, with the S&P 500 setting an intraday high of 5,878.46 on Thursday and closing high of 5,859.85 on Monday. For the week, the S&P rose 0.8% to end at 5,859.54. The index is now up 22.8% year to date and up 63.8% from its October 12, 2022 ...
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How To Trade Tesla's Weakness Ahead Of Wednesday's Earnings
2024 Oct 22, 2:58pm | 352Electric-vehicle giant and stock market darling Tesla Inc. reports earnings tomorrow after markets close, and for once, traders don’t seem excited by the prospect at all. Tesla earnings are almost always preceded by a pre-earnings surge in buying. This time, TSLA shares are down. The reason...
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Under the Radar: Would You Jump Off a Bridge If All Your Friends Did?
2024 Oct 22, 2:17pm | 1522Dear Benzinga Edge Member, All of us heard that when we were growing up if we tried to play the “All my friends do it” card to get out of a jam. We also did our best not to answer Mom when she asked that one because deep down inside, we knew she would not like that answer. The truth is...
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Three AI Stocks To Buy That Aren't Nvidia
2024 Oct 21, 1:42pm | 725The semiconductor giant Nvidia (NVDA) has returned over 700% during this "Age of AI," soaring enough to turn every $1,000 invested into $80,000 and change. But these gains are in the past… and with Nvidia now valued as high as $3 trillion, investors interested in cashing in on the $15.7 trillion AI...
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One Trade To Profit From China's Wild Stock Swings
2024 Oct 17, 2:15pm | 330China’s shares have moved dramatically both up and down over the last several weeks, and this is sure to happen again after the election cycle. Let's use $FXI as our instrument to construct a directional trade that will allow us to participate in returns if we see a dramatic move in either...
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C-Suite Buy of the Week: Green Dot Corp ($GDOT)
2024 Oct 17, 10:10am | 1668Dear Benzinga Member, That long slamming sound you may have heard recently was insider-buying windows slamming shut all across America. Regulators watch closely for signs of improper or illegal activity when insiders buy and trade shares in the companies they help run. It is illegal to trade in...
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Under the Radar - The Quiet Risks That Drive Market Movements
2024 Oct 16, 2:17pm | 1560Dear Benzinga Member, This week I want to talk to you about one of the biggest risks we all face in life, in the financial markets, and almost all other aspects of our lives. No one ever talks about it, but it poses a real danger to you and your family. It is the biggest reason that most mutual...
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How To Lock In Retirement Income Despite Falling Interest Rates
2024 Oct 16, 12:37pm | 888Here we go again. You can almost hear the collective heavy sigh escape from retirees and near-retirees alike. There are numerous reasons to feel optimistic about the Fed’s initiating a new interest rate cycle, which has a host of positive effects: Falling rates should bring mortgage rates...