Here’s how to protect your profits in biotech: Trader
Susquehanna’s Stacey Gilbert thinks biotech could be due for a pullback. She lays out an options strategy to protect your biotech holdings.
It’s been a record-breaking run for biotech stocks, with the Nasdaq Biotech ETF, the IBB, up 18 percent this year alone and nearly 300 percent in the past five years. But […]
Here’s how to protect your profits in biotech: Trader
Susquehanna’s Stacey Gilbert thinks biotech could be due for a pullback. She lays out an options strategy to protect your biotech holdings.
It’s been a record-breaking run for biotech stocks, with the Nasdaq Biotech ETF, the IBB, up 18 percent this year alone and nearly 300 percent in the past five years. But […]
Markets ended its choppy session in the red yesterday as fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar weighed on investor sentiment. Benchmarks witnessed their third lowest trading volume this year on Monday. Meanwhile, weaker dollar boosted oil prices on Monday, which in turn had a negative impact on the transportation stocks. Moreover, decline in biotech stocks dragged down the […]
Biotech stocks have been on fire in 2015. In the Biotech & Pharmaceuticals sector of the Russell 2000 Growth Index, there are over sixty stocks up by more than 30% this year. More than thirty stocks are up greater than 50% while six have more than doubled.The iShares Biotechnology ETF (IBB) is already up more than 20% less than 3 […]
The biotech sector has been on a roll lately. The SPDR S&P Biotech ETF ; ;has more than tripled since the start of 2012, compared to “just” a 63% increase in the S&P 500 .Source: Jeff Kubina via Flickr .Are we in a bubble that’s about to pop? We’ll only know for sure if (when?) the sector pulls back.In the […]
The multiyear run in major biotech stocks has not let up in 2015. Most of the large and mid-cap stocks in the industry are higher, but the smaller and lesser known names have also tracked them higher. In fact, several biotechs are up 200% or more so far in 2015.24/7 Wall St. ran a screen for the top five biotech […]
No one likes the “B” word, but it’s worth asking whether we’re seeing one in large-cap biotech stocks right now.Source: ©iStock.com/AlexRathsAt first glance, it seems to be a legitimate question given how well the sector has performed in the past year. The iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology Index (ETF) (NASDAQ:IBB) has gained nearly 70% since the low of mid-April 2014, and it […]
As March Madness begins the market had a solid quiet inside consolidation day. Biotech stocks were once again the talk of the town as many stocks were jumping higher. Once again small cap stocks were the winners today with the NASDAQ Composite just behind. The Dow led to the downside as pressure from a rising dollar continues to be the […]
BloombergThe iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF over 12 months
Stocks are selling off on Thursday after a post-Fed rally yesterday.
But biotech stocks are rallying, up nearly 2%. In fact, biotech stocks have been on fire all year. They’re up about 15% year-to-date.Last week, Max Nisen at Quartz wrote that while everyone is focusing on massive tech valuations, the biotech industry is where things […]
View photo.(Bloomberg)The iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF over 12 monthsStocks are selling off on Thursday after a post-Fed rally yesterday.
But biotech stocks are rallying, up nearly 2%. In fact, biotech stocks have been on fire all year. They’re up about 15% year-to-date.Last week, Max Nisen at Quartz wrote that while everyone is focusing on massive tech valuations, the biotech industry is where […]
