Hot Stock in Focus – Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA)

Stocks closed slightly higher on Friday, extending their winning streak to six days in a row, and posted strong weekly gains.

But the major averages ended off their session highs after news broke that special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities for allegedly interfering with the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

The market soon stabilized after Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein emphasized in a press conference that these indictments had no allegations of willing support to the Russians by Americans. “The nature of the scheme was that the defendants took extraordinary steps to make it appear that they were ordinary American political activists,” he said.

“One of the key point is there’s no finding that this actually affected the election results,” said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at B. Riley FBR. “To the extent this is a first blush, it doesn’t look market negative.”

The Dow Jones industrial average closed 19.01 points higher at 25,219.38, with Pfizer as the best-performing stock in the index. The Dow also posted its sixth straight day of gains. At its session highs, it rose 232.05 points.

The S&P 500 closed just 0.04 percent higher at 2,732.22, eking out a six-day winning streak, after gaining as much as 0.9 percent. Utilities and health care were the best-performing sectors in the broad index.

Meanwhile, the Nasdaq composite snapped a five-day winning streak, closing 0.2 percent lower at 7,239.47. It rose as much as 0.7 percent on the day. (Source: CNBC)

Top Pick for Monday: Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA)

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) has grabbed attention from the analysts when it experienced a change of 0.43% in the last trading session to close at $335.49. A total of 5,616,191 shares exchanged hands during the intra-day trade contrast with its average trading volume of 5.94M shares, while its relative volume stands at 0.95. Relative volume is the comparison of current volume to average volume for the same time of day, and it’s displayed as a ratio. If RVOL is less than 1 it is not In Play on this trading day and Investors may decide not to trade it. If RVOL is above 2 it is In Play and this is more evidence Investors ought to be in the name. When stocks are *very* In Play one can see a RVOL of 5 and above. The higher the RVOL the more In Play the stock is.

Day traders strive to make money by exploiting minute price movements in individual assets (usually stocks, though currencies, futures, and options are traded as well), usually leveraging large amounts of capital to do so, therefore they trade on Stocks in Play. In Play Stocks are volatile enough to produce good risk and reward trading opportunities for both bull and bear traders intraday. Most company stocks have very little volatility. They generally move extremely slowly and they only produce big price swings when the company produces good or bad trading results, which may only happen a couple of times a year at best.

In deciding what to focus on – in a stock, say – a typical day trader looks for three things: liquidity, volatility and trading volume. Liquidity allows an investor to enter and exit a stock at a good price (i.e. tight spreads, or the difference between the bid and ask price of a stock, and low slippage, or the difference between the predictable price of a trade and the actual price). If a stock does not have good liquidity then it may take some time before a broker is able to negotiate a deal to buy or sell a stock and the broker may not be able to get the sell or buy price that the trader is looking for. This is a problem for day traders and it could mean the difference between a profitable and non-profitable trade.

Traders have different rules for what constitutes liquidity and a good guide is the volume of trades and volume of shares that are traded each day. 100,000 shares traded per day would be a minimum for most traders and some require 1,000,000.

Trading volume is a gauge of how many times a stock is bought and sold in a given time period (most commonly, within a day of trading, known as the average daily trading volume – ADTV). A high degree of volume indicates a lot of interest in a stock. Often, a boost in the volume of a stock is a harbinger of a price jump, either up or down.

Volatility is simply a measure of the predictable daily price range—the range in which a day trader operates. More volatility means greater profit or loss. After a recent check, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) stock is found to be 3.42% volatile for the week, while 3.79% volatility is recorded for the month.

Technical’s Snapshot:

The stock has a market cap of $56.14B and the number of outstanding shares has been calculated 167.35M. Based on a recent bid, its distance from 20 days simple moving average is -0.70%, and its distance from 50 days simple moving average is 1.16% while it has a distance of -0.54% from the 200 days simple moving average. The company’s distance from 52-week high price is -13.89% and the current price is 38.63% away from 52-week low price. The company has Relative Strength Index (RSI 14) of 50.33 together with Average True Range (ATR 14) of 12.35.

Stock’s Valuation:

Past 5 years growth of TSLA observed at -13.10%, and for the next five years the analysts that follow this company is expecting its growth at 35.00%. The stock’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months is 4.77 and price to book ratio for the most recent quarter is 11.91, whereas price to cash per share for the most recent quarter are 15.90. Its quick ratio for the most recent quarter is 0.70. Analysts mean recommendation for the stock is 2.90. This number is based on a 1 to 5 scale where 1 indicates a Strong Buy recommendation while 5 represents a Strong Sell.

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Robert Thomas has over 14 years experience in the financial services industry giving him a vast understanding of how news affects the financial markets. He is an active day trader spending the majority of her time analyzing earnings reports and watching commodities and derivatives. He has a Masters Degree in Economics from Westminster University with previous roles counting Investment Banking.

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