Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced on Tuesday morning that it’s buying Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI) for $68.7 billion, the tech giant’s largest acquisition ever. The deal further extends Microsoft’s position in the gaming industry and also gives the company a huge boost as it seeks a piece of the so-called metaverse, a virtual world where […]
The S&P 500 is still whipsawing within the range between 4300 and 4800, making any near-term action within this range suspect until one of these levels is cleared with considerable momentum. SPY closed out 2022’s second trading week down 0.3%. US trading is closed on Monday, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. day. […]
NFTs have become a wildly popular hit over the past year, with artists, collectors, celebrities, venture investors, and traders alike driving their prices to record highs. The pixelated CryptoPunks character portraits, digital pieces of artwork from the artist Beeple, and Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) founder Jack Dorsey’s first tweet have each been sold as an […]
Brief Overview Although TradesViz isn’t a brokerage firm, trading in some securities is possible. Its primary focus is on trade analysis and research. For this, it has many tools on its website, and it’s really easy to get started. A free trial is available, and there is a suite of learning videos. Without further […]
There’s endless media stories about how many new and young millionaires the crypto market has created. While crypto isn’t new (it’s been around in some form since 2009 with the advent of Bitcoin), it’s only reached the high level of mainstream appeal since 2020. As such, you can hardly go to a bar and […]
There is a new buzzword on Wall Street: metaverse stocks. The metaverse has been a hot topic in recent months. And as stock prices of some companies linked to the metaverse continue to move higher, some already believe that we may be experiencing a bitcoin craze again. Metaverse stocks are a new trend but […]
There’s a concept in trading known as “carry trading,” which is basically how much the asset pays (or costs) you to own it, aside from price appreciation (although there are some exceptions which we’ll explore in this article). A bond, for example, has positive carry in the form of regular interest payments. On the […]
As trading gets underway in 2022, the U.S. stock market faces an uncertain future. Will traders take profits after the widely-followed S&P 500 index more than doubled in 2021 or is the January Effect going to give the market an extra boost? The January Effect continuously fascinates market participants and analysts because it frequently […]
Trade execution and volatility usually rank high for a majority of stock market participants, including day traders. In fact, in the past couple of years, traders have witnessed increased stock market volatility which has certainly increased their curiosity about how stock exchanges work. One of the most notable events that made an impact was […]
One of the growing trends in the US equity market since around 2016 is an increased concentration in the top components in equity indexes, namely the Big Tech firms like Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google. As you can see in the chart below, the weight of the top 10 S&P 500 components increased from […]
