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The price of Tesla stock closed on Friday, October 16, at $354.72. Only a day earlier, investors had watched a Roadster leap over a row of Tesla cars. They are still waiting for Tesla’s most important number. The fact is that Tesla kept only 1.4% of its revenue as operating profit last quarter. Even so, […]

The Netflix stock price ended the day at $67.06 after closing on October 2, which is approximately 46% lower than its highest price over the last year at $124.86. Normally, a drop of this size follows weak results. In this case, however, the business kept growing throughout the decline, as second-quarter revenue rose 13% to […]

A stock exchange sets the public bid and ask that every US broker shows on a trading screen. A beginner who clicks buy at $50.00 and gets filled at $50.04 usually suspects an error by the broker. The broker made no mistake: $50.00 was the highest bid, and $50.04 was the lowest price any seller […]

Prop trading can be found in two completely different areas: jobs at trading firms and advertisements for funding on the internet. Beginners who see both ask the same question: what is prop trading, and who supplies the money? In both cases, a trader buys and sells with a firm’s capital under the firm’s rules. At […]

Newmont (NEM): Can Peak Gold Become Lasting Value? On October 14, the Newmont stock price finished the session at $111.56, down 3.5% for the day. Compared with its 52-week low, the stock is about 47% higher. Nevertheless, it still sits roughly 18% under its high of $135.29. Part of the reason is gold itself, which […]

Cisco stock closed at $115.34 on October 12, up about 55% this year. The rally has a clear engine. Hyperscaler orders for its AI networking gear jumped 4.5 times to $9.3 billion in fiscal 2026. 🔗Cisco Stock (CSCO): Q4 FY26 Earnings & the AI Bet Traders read that as an AI hardware story. However, the […]

On October 9, the Bank of America stock price closed at $54.32. That is roughly 17% lower than its 52-week high, which stands at $65.23. The bank will publish its third-quarter results on Wednesday, October 14. As for earnings, analysts are looking for about $1.11 per share. This would be an improvement on the $1.06 […]

The JPMorgan stock price is trading around $331 ahead of third-quarter results on Tuesday, October 13. That’s roughly 10% under its $366.50 record. Earnings are estimated between $5.86 and $5.94 per share, up as much as 17% from last year’s equivalent number. Revenues, on the other hand, are seen close to $51.2 billion. At the […]

A trading challenge looks simple on paper: hit a profit target, respect the rules, get funded. So what is a trading challenge, and why do so many stock traders buy one? It is a paid evaluation in which a trader hits a target and, meanwhile, never breaks a loss limit. Many traders fail once and […]

On October 7, Walmart stock closed at $108.16, which is about 20% below its 52-week high of $135.16. That’s despite the fact that the company just raised its full-year outlook and saw advertising revenue grow by 38%. Investors still price it like the world’s largest store. 🔗Cyclical Stocks in 2026: The Complete Prop Trader’s Guide […]

SpaceX stock has been trading at $171.09 as of October 5, up around 27% from the $135 share price during its initial public offering and 24% off its $225.64 all-time high. 🔗Can SpaceX Justify a $1.8 Trillion IPO? Then two days later, the company’s stock tumbles amid news that a major measure of its credit […]

Four times a year, the market gets loud. Thousands of US companies report within a few weeks, and quiet stocks can jump or collapse overnight on a single number. Earnings trading means positioning around those releases: setting up in the days before, or trading the reaction after. The date is known. The outcome isn’t. That’s […]

The Micron stock is currently trading at $1,064 following the announcement by the company of its fiscal 2026 revenue of $133.19 billion, representing an increase of 256% with a fourth-quarter gross profit margin of 87%. This is the margin for a monopoly in software, not hardware. 🔗Micron Earnings: Can HBM4 Outrun the Netlist Patent Fight? […]

Profit split numbers get top billing on almost every prop firm homepage. A profit split is simply how a funded trader and the firm divide trading profit. It sounds like the whole story. However, it covers only the first line of what a trader actually collects. Picture two offers side by side, one at 90% […]

Enterprise value appears in earnings reports, takeover headlines, and stock screeners; however, only a small number of traders calculate it by themselves. Most of them still estimate the size of a company based on its market cap, even though enterprise value provides a more complete picture. The fact is, market cap does not take into […]