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Market Outlook

Can Japan’s Nikkei 225 continue to outpace Asian markets in 2020?

Opto

17 Jan 2020

News

Updates

Can Tullow Oil’s share price recover amid faltering oil prices?

Tullow Oil’s recent trading statement included a $1.5bn write-down due to a reduction in its oil price assumptions. How will this affect the company’s share price in the near future?

16 Jan 2020

Updates

What’s in store for Boohoo’s share price after record Q4 results?

Boohoo’s share price hit an all-time high this week after it issued a strong Q4 trading update, making its market value larger than that of Marks and Spencer. Will the online retailer’s adjusted guidance keep the stock in vogue in 2020?

15 Jan 2020

Updates

How will HSBC’s share price perform in Q1?

Traders will be paying close attention to HSBC’s share price in the first three months of this year after the bank faced unexpected headwinds over the festive period.

15 Jan 2020

Updates

Is Lloyds’ share price a buy in 2020?

Updates

Is Beyond Meat’s recent share price hike a sign of things to come?

Updates

Is Sainsbury’s share price headed downward despite online growth?

Updates

Can Amazon and Apple share prices power FAANG returns in 2020?

Features

Stock Deconstruction

Where will Microsoft's share price be in 5 years

Microsoft’s share price has gained a huge 249% since 2015. Can it keep up the pace for the next 5 years or are investors about to hit reset?

13 Jan 2020

Stock Deconstruction

Canopy Growth: Can new CEO boost the share price for the long-term?

The arrival of new CEO David Klein gave Canopy Growth’s share price a brief bounce, but he faces some considerable challenges in helping to maintain the company’s position as one the leading makers of cannabis products.

09 Jan 2020

Industry Spotlight

Cannabis stocks: Will 2020 be better after dismal 2019?

2019 saw cannabis stocks plummet, with the likes of Aurora Cannabis and Canopy Group's share price in freefall. Will 2020 see a rally or has the sector fizzled out?

06 Jan 2020

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13 Jan 2020

Columnists

Who’s hot in hotel stocks? How to create an industry snapshot

Using the Lodging/Hotel industry as an example, Relativity Capital portfolio manager and OptionsHawk founder Joe Kunkle walks through his strategy for creating an industry snapshot to help guide trading decisions.

09 Jan 2020

Columnists

The Rising Popularity of Net Promoter Scores for Investors

The Net Promoter Score provides a forward-looking view of a company’s performance – letting investors know how a company is viewed through the eyes of its customers.

08 Jan 2020

Tricks

Learn To Trade Fibonacci Retracements

CMC Markets Head of Product Development, Ryan O'Doherty, tells us how to trade using Fibonacci retracements, a form of technical analysis, and how to incorporate this process as part of your trading strategy.

06 Jan 2020

Tricks

The Beginner's Guide to Trading Candlestick Patterns

Head of Product Development at CMC Markets, Ryan O'Doherty, talks through the beginner’s guide to trading with candlestick charts. He guides us through nine different candlestick patterns, using CMC's trading platform to illustrate each one.

06 Jan 2020

Tricks

5 stock trading mistakes to avoid

Head of Product at CMC Markets, Ryan O'Doherty, talks through the top 5 stock trading mistakes to avoid and uses the CMC Markets trading platform to illustrate how to combat these common errors.

06 Jan 2020

Tools

Opto’s top 10 trading articles of 2019

We’ve had a busy year in 2019 covering the highs and lows of various stocks and indices, market outlooks across the globe, and a wide range of guest traders giving us insight into their tricks of the trade. So now we’ve collated our top 10 articles from this year for you to revisit, and reveal what made them so interesting at the time.

20 Dec 2019