You can ignore AI giants like SpaceX, but your 401(k) won't Think you can ignore all the hubbub around SpaceX, Elon Musk and IPOs AAP · Jun 13
Leaving Las Vegas: How to Beat the House as the Stock Market Turns Into a Casino Here’s a 30,000-foot view on practical ways to protect your investing capital and gain a real edge over the house in a stock market designed to keep you glued to the slots instead of growing your wealth. Barchart · Jun 12
This 2-ETF Portfolio Protects You From a Stock Market Storm and Teaches You the Most Important Investing Lesson Ever Here’s the very first thing any newer investor should not just know, but truly understand, consider, and personalize, if they want to be successful. Barchart · Jun 12
This Tech ETF Is Beating QQQ—and Canada May Be Part of the Reason The iShares North American Tech ETF (IGM) has gained nearly 20% year to date, outpacing the QQQ's 13% return, with Canadian holdings like Shopify and Celestica contributing to its performance. MarketBeat · Jun 10
SpaceX wants regular investors to help its stock launch. Here's what to know before clicking 'buy' When SpaceX makes its debut on the U.S. stock market, it wants smaller-pocketed, mom-and-pop investors to play a big role in what may be the biggest IPO ever The Independent UK · Jun 10
Unusual Options Activity in Key ETFs Unveils 3 Trade Ideas Here In Wednesday’s trading session, QQQ, IWM, and EEM each displayed high levels of unusual options activity, signaling heightened investor interest and opportunity. This surge created actionable possibilities. Here are three potential options strategies from yesterday’s market action. Barchart · May 28
The $43 Billion ETF Hiding in Plain Sight. Why DIA Might Outperform SPY and QQQ for the Rest of 2026. If the market maintains its all-time highs, DIA is poised to catch up as investors seek out the relatively cheaper pockets of the large-cap universe. Barchart · May 19
Don’t Trust This Top-Heavy Stock Market, Hedge It. Here’s Your Roadmap. Our ETF columnist addresses the knowledge gap in bonds and explains how equity-loving investors can build a bond ladder for safety. Barchart · May 7
IBM, Honeywell, and Cisco Stocks Remind Us That If You’re Not Invested in AI, You’re Losing in Today’s Market The recent earnings reports from three pillars of the legacy tech world – International Business Machines (IBM), Honeywell (HON), and Cisco (CSCO) – offer a masterclass in the fragmented reality of the 2026 stock market. Barchart · Apr 24
What You Don’t Know About ETFs Might Hurt You. Rob’s Here to Help. The ETF market is booming, and could soon swallow Wall Street — along with unsuspecting investors. Barchart columnist Rob Isbitts explains how his unique indicator pinpoints risk and what he wishes more of us knew about ETFs. Barchart · Apr 23
The QQQ Chart Hints at 2 Extremes: Either a Dot-Com Bubble Burst or a Technical Breakout Ahead On one hand, there is no reason the QQQ ETF can’t keep climbing. On the other, this technical indicator looks a lot like it did before the dot-com bubble burst. Barchart · Apr 22
This New ETF Could Soon Be a Big Hit Or a Distant Memory: Why DRAM Is As Good As the AI Trade Allows It to Be The Roundhill Memory ETF (DRAM) is new, and it offers something a little different. Here's what makes this fund one to watch. Barchart · Apr 20
Does the QQQ ETF Have a Bad Case of Premature Accumulation? The market is trying to price in a happy ending before the script has actually been written. Barchart · Apr 16
QQQ Just Met Its Match With This New ETF. Here's Why It's a Win for Investors. BlackRock’s IQQ debut means QQQ just met its biggest rival. Here's why it matters and what investors should know. Barchart · Apr 7
MarketBeat · Apr 6 5 Reasons the Invesco QQQ ETF Could Be Headed for a Triple-Digit Rally The QQQ ETF is on track to advance in April after signaling a trend-following entry. Upside potential runs into the high-double-digits near-term.
Barchart · Apr 2 What Happens Next After the QQQ ETF’s 3% Single-Day Move? Here’s What History Tells Us. While a 3% single-day gain feels like a recovery, historical context suggests these massive swings are often a hallmark of a downtrend rather than the start of a sustained bull run.
Barchart · Apr 1 The Strait of Hormuz Crisis Isn't Ending Anytime Soon. 3 Charts I'm Watching to Determine What Comes Next. The crisis in the Strait of Hormuz is like a hurricane that has been wreaking havoc over the global economy. Is the storm about to blow over?
GOBankingRates · Mar 25 Why Nvidia Is a Different Stock for Retirees in 2026 — 3 Rules Change the Math Artificial intelligence has fueled Nvidia’s rise, but experts say retirees should weigh ETFs, valuation and position size before buying NVDA stock in 2026.
Barchart · Mar 25 Warning: Investing in Tech Stocks May Just Be 1 Big, Overcrowded Trade As I see it, “diversification” has become a casualty of the indexing age. But that hasn’t stopped investors from pursuing it.
Barchart · Mar 18 Is the Thrill Gone in QQQ? Where Investors Should Be Looking Now. QQQ has traded virtually flat for the past six months. Is the thrill gone in this major ETF? Let's take a look.
MarketBeat · Mar 14 Avoid the Top-Heavy S&P 500 With Equal-Weight ETFs Equal-weight ETFs can help to avoid automatic overconcentration in the AI-dominated tech sector, but they come at a higher cost than popular alternatives.
Barchart · Feb 20 The Best Way To Play Covered Call ETFs Right Now Covered call ETFs are all the rage among traders, and I haven't been on board. Here's the only way I'd play a covered call ETF.
Barchart · Feb 19 QQQ Just Sent a Chilling Signal — Right Before Nvidia Earnings The QQQ is showing a crack in its foundation. Here's what it means, how you should play it, and what to expect from Nvidia earnings next week.
Barchart · Feb 6 The Subsector Crack: What Cybersecurity and Cloud Computing Can Tell Us About the Tech Rout If the tech sector just sneezed, critical subsectors like cybersecurity and cloud computing caught the flu. Here's what this tells us about what's going on in the market right now.
Barchart · Feb 5 Is This the End of the Road for Google Stock? Plus, QQQ’s 100-Day Moving Average Break Find out what’s on the desk of our top chart expert ahead of Friday’s livestream, including a new red flag on Google stock, a big breakout in BALL, and key ETF updates.