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Lightspeed Trading has been supporting sophisticated, active and professional traders since 1994. With high touch service and high end tools, Lightspeed has been able to stand out as an industry leading firm. Low cost stock and options trading with Lightspeed for day traders, professional traders, trading groups, institutions, and hedge funds.
Lightspeed Trading
2y ago
IPOX® Indexes surge during U.S. expiration week. China re-set, more Fed certainty drive gains.
IPOX® 100 U.S. (ETF: FPX) and IPOX® International (ETF: FPXI) add +9.51% and 7.95%, respectively.
Benchmark IPOX® SPAC Index (SPAC) gains +3.01%. Only 1 SPAC launched last week.
Quiet on the U.S. and European IPO front. Tokopedia merger GoTo Group set to list April 4.
Last week’s Summary: The IPOX® Indexes surged during U.S. Futures and Options expiration week, as the benefits of more FED certainty and the big re-set in China-linked exposure significantly outweighed the day-to-day uncertainty of ne ..read more
Lightspeed Trading
2y ago
After big 2020, most IPOX® Indexes lag in 2021, outperform other innovation-focused strategies.
Europe leads amongst broad-based IPOX® Indexes performance rankings in 2021.
Amid declines in the IPOX® SPAC (SPAC), 613 SPACs raised ca. $161.5 billion in the U.S.
Global IPO activity sets record with 968 deals raising $327.8 billion. Taiwan’s AES best IPO performer.
2021 Summary: The broad-based benchmarks played catch-up to the big 2020 IPOX® Returns during 2021, underpinned by strong earnings within a low risk (VIX: -24.31%) & low interest rate environment amid big central bank and g ..read more
Lightspeed Trading
2y ago
IPOX® Indexes rise after expiration. Innovation-focused IPOX® 100 U.S. (FPX) adds +3.71%.
IPOX® Europe (FPXE) propels IPOX® International (FPXI) to good week.
IPOX® SPAC adds +0.93%. 4 new SPACs launched in the U.S. last week.
Happy and Healthy Holidays from the Team at IPOX® Schuster LLC.
WEEKLY Summary: Following Q4 2021 Futures and Options expiration, the IPOX® Indexes recorded strong gains. Helped by a decline in U.S. equity risk (VIX: -16.74%), less COVID-19 and COVID variant anxiety and higher U.S. yields, the innovation-focused IPOX® 100 U.S. (ETF: FPX), for example, added +3.71 ..read more
Lightspeed Trading
2y ago
IPOX® Indexes retreat, follow benchmarks lower during Q4/2021 expiration week.
Biotech holdings rise amid increase in COVID and COVID variant cases and more IPO M&A.
IPOX® SPAC (SPAC) sheds -2.29%. 15 new SPACs launched in the U.S. last week.
Large IPOs close week below final offer price. Saudi and small IPOs in Japan in focus.
Weekly Summary: Amid big intra-day swings across the benchmarks, lower long-term U.S. yields and higher equity risk (VIX: +15.41%), the IPOX® Indexes declined during Q4 ’21 Futures and Options expiration week. After staging a strong recovery into the weekend, e.g ..read more
Lightspeed Trading
2y ago
By: Wayne Duggan
Traders often spend sleepless nights agonizing over which stocks to buy and sell. But while it’s true that investing early in the next Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) or avoiding the next Nikola Corp. (NASDAQ: NKLA) can be important, making big money in the stock market isn’t all about identifying buying the best stocks in the market and selling the worst ones. In fact, when you buy or sell a stock is often far more important than which stock you’re buying or selling.
Cautionary Timing Tale
One of the most fascinating examples of how bad timing can be brutal for a stock trader is in ..read more
Lightspeed Trading
2y ago
IPOX® Indexes retreat, follow benchmarks lower during Q4/2021 expiration week.
Biotech holdings rise amid increase in COVID and COVID variant cases and more IPO M&A.
IPOX® SPAC (SPAC) sheds -2.29%. 15 new SPACs launched in the U.S. last week.
Large IPOs close week below final offer price. Saudi and small IPOs in Japan in focus.
weekly Summary: Amid big intra-day swings across the benchmarks, lower long-term U.S. yields and higher equity risk (VIX: +15.41%), the IPOX® Indexes declined during Q4 ’21 Futures and Options expiration week. After staging a strong recovery into the weeken ..read more
Lightspeed Trading
2y ago
By: Wayne Duggan
One of the most appealing things about options for many stock traders is the ability to ramp up leverage to supercharge potential gains. Of course, leverage is a 2-way street and can put traders at risk of huge losses if they don’t fully understand the risks involved.
How Option Leverage Works
Essentially, an option contract allows traders to get more bang for their buck. Each option contract typically represents 100 shares of the underlying stock. The cost of options contracts is usually much lower than the price of the underlying stock, but option buyers still gain o ..read more
Lightspeed Trading
2y ago
By: Wayne Duggan
Third-quarter earnings season is drawing to a close, as the S&P 500 wraps up yet another quarter of impressive growth numbers. Unfortunately, the omicron variant of COVID-19 could be a significant damper on near-term earnings moving forward at a time in which earnings growth would likely already be pressured.
Q3 Numbers
More than 95% of S&P 500 companies have already reported third-quarter earnings numbers at this point. Earnings are up 39.6% for the quarter, the third-highest earnings growth rate of any quarter since at least 2010.
Third-quarter earnings numbe ..read more
Lightspeed Trading
2y ago
IPOX® Indexes record strong gains as blue chips soar ahead of expiration.
Nasdaq selects key IPOX 100 U.S. (FPX) portfolio holding to the Nasdaq 100 (QQQ).
IPOX® SPAC (SPAC) declines anew. 20 new SPACs launched in the U.S.
IPO market sentiment bounces as 29 deals launch across global regions.
Ahead of Futures and Options expiration week, most IPOX® Indexes staged a solid rally, recovering some of the previous week’s sharp losses. Amid big intra-week gyrations in index spreads which pushed the blue-chip focused S&P 500 Index (SPY) to a fresh all-time closing high Friday, the IPOX® 100 U.S ..read more
Lightspeed Trading
2y ago
By: Wayne Duggan
Traders are anticipating some major market volatility this week as the S&P Dow Jones Indices completes the quarterly rebalancing of its popular stock indices, including the S&P 500.
What Is Rebalancing?
S&P adjusts the constituents in its popular S&P 500 and S&P MidCap 400 indices on a quarterly basis. These S&P 500 index tracks the performance of 500 of the largest companies traded on U.S. stock exchanges. To be eligible for inclusion, a company must be headquartered in the U.S., have a market capitalization of at least $11.8 billion, be highly liquid ..read more