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Earnings

Earnings season: Amazon, Uber and Twitter’s share price triumph

Opto

20 Feb 2020

News

Earnings

Earnings season: Amazon, Uber and Twitter’s share price triumph

With the majority of large-cap firms having now reported earnings for the final quarter of 2019, Opto looks at the share price winners and losers of the earnings season so far, with Amazon, Uber and Twitter ranking among the big-hitters.

20 Feb 2020

Earnings

Earnings preview: what direction will Lloyds’ share price take?

Lloyds releases its full-year earnings results this week. The bank has weathered the Brexit storm, but what has that meant for its bottom line, and Lloyds’ ailing share price?

19 Feb 2020

Earnings

Dropbox share price: what to expect in Q4 earnings results

Dropbox's share price has tanked since going public in 2018. Can Q4 earnings and a change in strategy turn things around?

18 Feb 2020

Updates

What’s been dragging the FTSE 100 down?

Earnings

Where next for Microsoft’s share price after Pentagon contract stumble?

Earnings

HSBC share price: is the bank a buy ahead of earnings?

Earnings

Walmart share price: What’s in store for Q4 earnings?

Features

Industry Spotlight

Intel, Samsung, TSMC: which semiconductor share price to back in 2020?

Semiconductor stocks have continued to charge, despite a 2019 dominated by the Huawei controversy, trade wars and volatile consumer demand. What does 2020 hold for Intel, Samsung and TSMC’s share prices?

03 Feb 2020

Industry Spotlight

Supermarkets v Discounters: Where next for Sainsbury and Tesco share prices?

Discount grocers continue to gather pace in the UK, with sales in the festive season outperforming industry stalwarts; so where are Tesco and Sainsbury's share prices headed in 2020?

23 Jan 2020

Industry Spotlight

Why Tesla’s share price is soaring as the auto industry stalls

While Tesla’s share price has surged to unprecedented levels other automotive stocks, including Aston Martin and Ford, have made near universal losses in 2020. We dig into the reasons behind this staggering outperformance.

22 Jan 2020

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Knowledge

Columnists

Five small cap growth stocks to watch

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19 Feb 2020

Columnists

China’s Anta Sports competes with global heavyweights Nike and Adidas

Founder of Options Hawk Joe Kunkle explores how Anta Sports has become a keen competitor of major brands including Nike and Adidas as China’s sportswear market shows strong growth due to government policies and anticipation ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022.

20 Jan 2020

Tricks

Why buy shares when you can spread bet?

Spread betting can be is an effective, tax-efficient way to trade on price movements in the stock market. Opto digs into why traders might opt for spread betting over owning shares.

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

Analysis

Market Outlook

What to look out for in Warren Buffett’s annual shareholder letter

Fund Watch

Inside Jim Simons’ Medallion fund

Stock Watch

Inside the biotech playbook of a Janus Henderson fund manager

Market Outlook

How has coronavirus impacted healthcare and biotech stocks?

Market Outlook

Emerging markets: Trading opportunities in Africa

Market Outlook

What Ray Dalio, and other major fund managers, think about a recession

Stock Watch

FTSE 100 tech stocks to watch in 2020

Market Outlook

Will the trade deal boost John Deere and other agriculture share prices?