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in-app chat on thinkorswim. only at td ameritrade. >>> welcome back to "options action." probably one of the single biggest stock stories of the week had to be what happened with amazon.com. now, that stock ended in eight-day winning streak yesterday on a week where we saw three new record highs in succession, which means that amazon stock has now made 11 record intraday highs in 2017. now, despite the momentum pause over the last couple of days, the total market cap of the company has increased by around $6 billion just this week alone. to put that in perspective, that's nearly as much market cap in a week at all of ralph lauren as a company is worth or it's about as much as the total market cap of kohl's as well and if you think that's impressive, try the near 20% gain in the stock just in this year. that translates into a whopping $71 billion in added market value or like roughly adding the size of american express. but can that run last? according to fact set, 89% of analyst haves a buy rating on the stock and the remainder 11% ha

in-app chat on thinkorswim.at td ameritrade. >>> the s&p 500 just posted its fifth positive month in the last six. as april comes to a close the stocks set near record highs. should investors adhere to the adage, sell in may and go away? bob pasan at the new york stock exchange with more. >> this is one of the most famous adages. you can argue about why it works but there's something to it. sense since 1950 the s&p 500 has been up .4% may to october, compared to a gain of 7% november to april. this is according to gale and jeff hirsch in 1986. sounds good but in the past 10 years, they've refined this by layering in two additional factors. a technical signal and a signal based on presidential cycles. the technical signals will get you in earlier than november 1 and keep you in longer than may 1 if the market is trending up. the opposite if the market is trending down. the other signal involves the presidential cycle. don't sell in may in the third and fourth year of the presidential election cycle which markets

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sync your platform on any device with thinkorswim.at td ameritrade >>> look, i have said it before, including the top of the show, but the endless commentary on tesla and amazon is really starting to rankle me. there are so many good stocks go up without comment. i'm reading about price targets being boosted endlessly higher, to see that amazon is headed to $1,000, more people are adopting prime. i know tesla's got a staggering story, but when i read miper jaf free's dramatic price in -- you can't infor this stock. i find this whole exercise fansful. as the research says, any other company would be crucified for having that balance sheet and for doing that spending, but not tesla, not tesla because for some other reasons, the cars are not great. what bothers me about this recommendation? it's that $325 price target. tesla shouldn't be compared to nord or gm. on top of that, why not just have a sky's the limit price target? because if it's overvalued at this level, what's the point of putting a target price on it? the analysts say that

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tap into the knowledge of other traders on thinkorswim.de. >>> the initial offering day is here, and i don't like it, no, i don't like it one bit. just this week we have seven deals, the most this year and one week, and the stock market just isn't equipped to handle all these new supply, particularly with sop of these suboptimal offerings first azul which means blue in spanish and portuguese. it's not the very good liquor, it's the brazilian jetblue, which makes sense. it's also a potentially compelling company if you like brazil. largest brazilian airlines in terms of departures. there's hot money but this one opened at a small premium. or just plain gold. the airlines up 140% year to date. even though azul did go out at a premium, this is not the stock that you want to kick off a flood of ipo's because airlines are terrifricky and risky. a special purpose acquisition. i just like these stocks. sure it might work out, but it's hard to be involved in something when you don't even know what it will end up being. next ipo, cane's back in cou

tap into the knowledge of other traders on thinkorswim.at td ameritrade. >>> as my loyal viewers already know, i'm a huge fan of breakups that help unlock value. sometimes businesses are just too big or too unwieldy or too uncomplicated to get big on wall street. that's why splitting them up into pieces makes each piece moore valuable. biogin is a all-starring neurotech titans. the company also has an attractive hemophilia franchise, so biogin announced it will expand its business. in february of this year, it finalized the split into a new company called biovaritive. since then this stock has been on fire. rallying more than 23% on no real news. i think that's the power of a breakup. like any company specific kas catalyst as it can give you specific gains. biovaritek had a spectacular move in a very short period of time. could this stock have more room to run or is it done? now that biovaritek is it's own company, i think we should stop and take a closer look. this company is all about home mow feela, so for those of you who don't know ab

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sync your platform on any device with thinkorswim.y at td ameritrade . >>> crude is at the crossroads, here we are with oil back around $53 a barrel again. i think we need to worry that crude can't push through this ceiling. that is bad implications for your oil stocks. the u.s. is still pumping oil like it's going out of style. that is not good for the price of oil. why is our production screaming? because at these levels, so many oil companies, particularly in the permian basis get about 100% profit, so they're going to keep pumping like mad, and selling aggressively, once again putting a lid on the commodity's price. and saudi arabia is talking about the need for opec to keep hits price in place for longer than they thought. but there's no making up for the new production in america, thanks to new technology that makes it much easier and shaper to pull oil out of the ground. what do you do if you own oil stocks? we have been telling club stocks, it's time to trim some of your oil exposure here, because nothing can counter act the r

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