The Traderszone Network

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has its work cut out for it if it hopes to hit its ambitious self-imposed goal of doubling its services business in four years. It can certainly be done, especially now that growing services revenue is a high priority at the company, but it won’t be easy.

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This data point is not usually much of an immediate forex market mover
For the week ended April 16, down to 112.6 from 114.8 the week before
The downtrend still in place for this indicator.

There’s no question the action sports and fitness market is booming, which should be good news for both Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) and GoPro Inc. (NASDAQ: GPRO). But Garmin’s stock is still off more than 50% from its all-time high in 2007, and GoPro has been in a funk since a botched product launch in mid-2015. 

Both companies have a valuable position in the market, though, and may not be doing everything they can to exploit that position. If they want to be the best they can be, a combination of the two may be the best idea. 

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Xinhua (Chinese state media) reported yesterday afternoon on comments from Premier Li Keqiang 
Li posting on Weibo:
– “China’s foreign trade grew sharply in the first quarter of this year”
via Reuters

Developers and analysts like Zuckerberg’s all-business focus at F8.

Jim Cramer explains his best practices for making money when the market is struggling.

Hi all,

I want to backtest some strats on bond options (ZN and ZB). Before buying expensive data and investing considerable time and resources into it, I’d like to do some quick tests of my investment thesis

Questions:

-does it make sense to run backtests on ETFs like TLT and IEF (have data for them ready) ?

-next step would be to use historical vol surface. Just looked at Quandle and unfortunately they don’t have vol surface for ZN and ZB. Do you know of other data providers ?…

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