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Elevating Your Investment Strategy with Firstrade's Latest Research Tools

At Firstrade, we're always looking for ways to enhance your investment journey. It's with great enthusiasm that we announce a significant upgrade to our research tools on our website, realized through our collaboration with Trading Central, a well-known financial market analysis and investment research service company. This enhancement isn't just an addition of features; it's a step forward in providing you with a more insightful, data-driven investing experience.

At Firstrade, we're always looking for ways to enhance your investment journey. It's with great enthusiasm that we announce a significant upgrade to our research tools on our website, realized through our collaboration with Trading Central, a well-known financial market analysis and investment research service company. This enhancement isn't just an addition of features; it's a step forward in providing you with a more insightful, data-driven investing experience.

What’s New at Firstrade:

Explore our web trading platform and navigate to "Research & Tools”, where a suite of advanced research tools awaits you. Our latest integration combines cutting-edge technology with comprehensive market insights, offering a variety of resources to support your informed investing decisions, all in one streamlined place.

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Technical Insight®

Technical Insight uses best practices of Technical Analysis to identify trends, patterns, and historical price changes. Clients can gain valuable insights swiftly by examining each stock's performance in just a brief moment.

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Market & News

Market & News (Market Buzz) enhances news interaction, utilizing AI to amalgamate updates from diverse sources and applying advanced sentiment analysis, providing traders with a comprehensive and interactive news experience, delivering in-depth market sentiment insights through Sentiment Scores, Signals, and Confidence Indexes, facilitating more informed and strategic investment decisions.

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Strategy Builder™

Strategy Builder empowers investors to conduct research, define criteria, and apply filters to identify strategies that are well-suited for selecting investments. Now, Firstrade investors can filter through a universe of stocks using over 65 different factors, including fundamental, technical, and quantitative criteria.

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Calendar (Economic Insight)

Calendar offers investors a streamlined view of important economic events, presented through simple charts and a personalized calendar. This enables investors to monitor, anticipate, and act on market movements efficiently.

Daily Newsletters

Enhance your market perspective with our daily newsletters, aimed at boosting your investment confidence. You can subscribe at the bottom of our "Market & News" section on our website to receive these newsletters via email before the US stock market opens each day.

  • ETF Market Report: Analyze trade ideas from chart pattern detections, providing a starting point for deeper research into market opportunities.

  • Morning Brief: Start your day with comprehensive updates on US markets, including pre-market insights, the latest IPOs, overall market outlook, and detailed technical analysis.

  • Technical Snapshots: Access individual stock analysis provided by Trading Central’s research desks, offering directional insights into market analysis.

These new features are part of our ongoing commitment to provide you with top-tier investment tools and insights. We believe that with the right tools, your investment decisions become more intuitive, insightful, and ultimately, more rewarding.

We encourage you to explore these new features under our "Research & Tools" section and to subscribe to our newsletters for the latest in market insights. For any questions or further assistance, remember, we're here to help. Together, let's navigate the future of investing.

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Top 25 Most Traded Stocks & ETFs by Investors at Firstrade in December

Get the full list of top favored stocks and ETFs among Firstrade investors in the last month.

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Here’s the full list of top favored stocks and ETFs among Firstrade investors in the last month:

1. Tesla Inc (TSLA)

2. NVIDIA Corp (NVDA)

3. ProShares UltraPro QQQ (TQQQ)

4. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD)

5. ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ ETF (SQQQ)

6. Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X Shares (SOXL)

7. iShares 20 Plus Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT)

8. Apple Inc (AAPL)

9. Direxion Daily 20+ Year Treasury Bull 3X Shares ETF (TMF)

10. Palantir Technologies Inc (PLTR)

11. Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1 (QQQ)

12. Marathon Digital Holdings Inc (MARA)

13. Microsoft Corp (MSFT)

14. Coinbase Global Inc (COIN)

15. Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bear 3X Shares (SOXS)

16. Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. Co. Ltd. (TSM)

17. Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)

18. Alphabet Inc Class C (GOOG)

19. Vanguard 500 Index Fund ETF (VOO)

20. Upstart Holdings Inc (UPST)

21. Intel Corporation (INTC)

22. Pfizer Inc. (PFE)

23. Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN)

24. Arm Holdings PLC - ADR (ARM)

25. Micron Technology Inc (MU)

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Boost Your 2024 Investments: Up to $5,000 Cash Bonus Awaits with Firstrade!

Welcome 2024 with Firstrade! Dive into your investment journey and grab the chance to earn up to $5,000 in cash bonuses.

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Welcome 2024 with Firstrade! Dive into your investment journey and grab the chance to earn up to $5,000 in cash bonuses. Just open and fund a new Firstrade account by February 2nd, 2024. This special offer is available to all U.S. residents keen on starting their investment journey with an individual, joint, or custodial account. Don’t delay—join Firstrade now and take your 2024 investments to new heights!

How to get a new account bonus with Firstrade:

  • Open an account using the Open An Account button on our New Year Cash Bonus Promotion page.

  • After receiving your new account confirmation email, you need to fund at least $5000 to your account within 30 days to participate in this promotion.

The bonus tiers and required deposit amounts are as follows:

 
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Check out this link to learn more about our promotion.

Don't miss out, open and fund your account today and enjoy these gifts from Firstrade to help you get started on your investing journey. Cheers!

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Top 25 Most Traded Stocks & ETFs by Investors at Firstrade in November

Get the full list of top favored stocks and ETFs among Firstrade investors in the last month.

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Here’s the full list of top favored stocks and ETFs among Firstrade investors in the last month:

1. Tesla Inc (TSLA)

2. NVIDIA Corp (NVDA)

3. ProShares UltraPro QQQ (TQQQ)

4. ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ ETF  (SQQQ)

5. Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X Shares (SOXL)

6. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD)

7. Apple Inc (AAPL)

8. Palantir Technologies Inc (PLTR)

9. Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1 (QQQ)

10. iShares 20 Plus Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT)

11. Microsoft Corp (MSFT)

12. Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. Co. Ltd. (TSM)

13. Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bear 3X Shares (SOXS)

14. Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN)

15. Direxion Daily 20+ Year Treasury Bull 3X Shares ETF (TMF)

16. Vanguard 500 Index Fund ETF (VOO)

17. Unity Software Inc (U)

18. Alphabet Inc Class C (GOOG)

19. Coinbase Global Inc (COIN)

20. Super Micro Computer Inc (SMCI)

21. Arm Holdings PLC - ADR (ARM)

22. Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)

23. Intel Corporation (INTC)

24. Walt Disney Co (DIS)

25. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd - ADR (BABA)

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Top 25 Most Traded Stocks & ETFs by Investors at Firstrade in October

Get the full list of top favored stocks and ETFs among Firstrade investors in the last month.

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Here’s the full list of top favored stocks and ETFs among Firstrade investors in the last month:

1. Tesla Inc (TSLA)

2. NVIDIA Corp (NVDA)

3. ProShares UltraPro QQQ (TQQQ)

4. ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ ETF  (SQQQ)

5. Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X Shares (SOXL)

6. Apple Inc (AAPL)

7. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD)

8. iShares 20 Plus Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT)

9. Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1 (QQQ)

10. Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. Co. Ltd. (TSM)

11. Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bear 3X Shares (SOXS)

12. Vanguard 500 Index Fund ETF (VOO)

13. Microsoft Corp (MSFT)

14. Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN)

15. Palantir Technologies Inc (PLTR)

16. ProShares Ultra VIX Short Term Futures ETF (UVXY)

17. Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF (VTI)

18. Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)

19. Direxion Daily 20+ Year Treasury Bull 3X Shares ETF (TMF)

20. Alphabet Inc Class C (GOOG)

21. Meta Platforms Inc (META)

22. Arm Holdings PLC - ADR (ARM)

23. Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund ETF (VT)

24. Coca-Cola Co (KO)

25. SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY)

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