Author: Jay Soloff

Trade of the Week: FCEL

Trade of the Week: FCEL

There’s been a massive amount of unusual options activity in electric vehicles and related companies this past week. FuelCell Energy (FCEL) makes hydrogen fuel cells for power plants, although the technology is often talked about for use in electric vehicles, and has seen its share price climb 109% this past week. FCEL options traded 11x […]

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Is Palantir the Next Big Thing in the Tech Sector?

Although the U.S. elections are garnering most of the media attention, the bigger deal for investors is the potential success of a coronavirus vaccine. The Pfizer (PFE) and BioNTech (BNTX) vaccine, with its 90% success rate in trials, could be a significant game changer for a world desperately seeking to find its way out of […]

Trade of the Week: NIO

Trade of the Week: NIO

It may sound like a broken record, but there has once again been a massive amount of options action in Nio (NIO). The Chinese electric vehicle company is up an eye-popping 1,100% so far this year, as it continues to impress investors with robust growth numbers. Perhaps even more impressive, 2 million options contracts traded […]

Are Chinese Stocks a Buy Under a Biden Presidency?

Are Chinese Stocks a Buy Under a Biden Presidency?

There’s a whole lot to unpack from last week. After five days of waiting for definitive numbers, media outlets have called the presidential election for Joe Biden. Senate control may take until January to decide due to two runoffs in Georgia. In other words, the market has plenty to digest. Before we talk about trading […]

Trade of the Week: NIO

Trade of the Week: NIO

While most eyes were on the US election, Chinese electric vehicle maker Nio (NIO) is off to the races. NIO’s stock price has climbed over 37% this past week and is up a whopping 838% for the year. The company recently announced strong October sales and better than expected growth. At least one analyst expects […]

OXFORD, UK - DECEMBER 5th 2016: Snapchat logos printed onto paper. Snapchat is a popular social media application for sharing messages, images and videos

Will SNAP Continue To Defy Gravity?

Earnings season has pretty much been a non-event this year, with investors entirely focused on the election and the COVID-19 pandemic. The week leading up to the election has been extremely volatile, and you could indeed be forgiven for not realizing earnings are still rolling out. The thing is, what may have been overlooked with […]

Trade of the Week: PINS

Trade of the Week: PINS

Idea-sharing social media site Pinterest (PINS) is seeing a lot of options action after posting standout earnings. Like many social media companies, PINS is thriving from the remote work/study/play environment brought on by the pandemic. PINS user growth and ad revenues were better than expected, and the stock jumped over 26% higher on the day […]

Indianapolis - Circa July 2017: Ride sharing companies Lyft and Uber pickup spot at the airport. Lyft and Uber have replaced many Taxi cabs for transportation I

Trading UBER and LYFT Now That They’re An Election Issue

2020 flipped the investment world on its head. Many stocks that had been investor favorites like UBER and LYFT heading into the year were forgotten in favor of companies that could thrive during a pandemic. To put it simply, the coronavirus pandemic changed the entire investment landscape. One industry that was enormously impacted by the […]

Trade of the Week: SNAP

Trade of the Week: SNAP

The biggest action in the options market this past week occurred in Snap (SNAP).  The social media/video sharing company has become the best-in-class in the industry after posting outstanding growth and earnings numbers this past week.  The company is seeing big time ad dollars coming in, as users became increasingly active over the pandemic period […]

NIO ES6 electric SUV semi-autonomous car on display near Chinese automobile manufacturer NIO software development office in Silicon Valley - San Jose, California, USA - 2019

NIO Stock Price Is On Fire – Will The Run Continue?

2020 is a year that is mostly defined by the COVID-19 pandemic and the historically crucial presidential election. From an investor standpoint, there’s one more thing you can add to that list: the growth of the electric vehicle (EV) market. Not only have several new EV companies come on to the scene, but existing players […]