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Trade Alerts and Trading Ideas from Barchart.com

Fri, May 23rd, 2025

With the most powerful tools available, Barchart makes your investing easier. From customizable emailed reports to alert you to changing market conditions, to daily trading ideas and trade picks... Barchart has it all!

Here are some of the most popular Trading Idea reports available to be delivered, right to your inbox:

Unusual Options Activity Alerts

Sent at the end of each trading day, get an email report identifying options contracts that traded at a higher volume relative to the contract's open interest. Unusual Options can provide insight on what "smart money" is doing with large volume orders, signaling new positions and potentially a big move in the underlying asset. Sent daily, Monday - Friday.

Unusual Options Activity Alerts
Top Stocks to Own

This daily email ranks stocks by a combination of their overall Barchart Opinion, signal strength and signal direction. Barchart Opinion shows traders what a variety of popular trading systems are suggesting in terms of going long or short the market. Sent daily, Monday - Friday.

Top Stocks to Own
Options Flow Report

This daily report highlights large option trades that were transacted across all US option exchanges. Seeing what option strikes large institutional traders are buying or selling can provide both directional sentiment and volatility insights for the underlying security. Sent daily, Monday - Friday.

Options Flow
Today's Performance Leaders

This daily email shows the top 5 stocks with the highest and lowest daily percent change (the percentage difference between the current price and the previous close). This email can help you identify the stocks with the most price movement from the close of the market yesterday. Sent daily, Monday - Friday.

Today's Performance Leaders
New Additions to the Top 100 Stocks Page

Get alerted to any new stock that lands on Barchart’s popular Top 100 Stocks page, where you will find stocks ranked by their highest Weighted Alpha (a measure of how much a stock has changed in a one year period). These newly added stocks indicate a recent strong price shift, and combined with other technical indicators can indicate good potential trading candidates. (Available with a Premier Membership) Sent daily, Monday - Friday.

Top 100 Stocks
Today’s Most Active Stock Options

Most Active Options ranks stocks with the highest total option trading volume for the day. A high put call volume ratio reflects bearish sentiment, while a low ratio reflects bullish sentiment, as more calls were bought than put options. Sent daily, Monday - Friday.

Most Active Stock Options
Trend Seeker® - New Buy Signal

Get alerted to stocks whose Trend Seeker® signal indicates a New Buy, based on the Barchart Opinion. Trend Seeker is a computerized trend analysis system, developed by Barchart.com. The system uses a combination of wave theory, market momentum and volatility in an attempt to find a general trend for a specific market. Trend Seeker® attempts to cut losers early and let winners run. (Available with a Premier Membership) Sent daily, Monday - Friday.

Trend Seeker - New Buy Signal
Today's Price Surprises

A daily email with stocks that have unusually large price movement relative to their usual pattern (stocks that are seeing breakouts or abnormally large bull and bear moves.) As a result, there may be trading opportunities in these large-movement stocks. Sent daily, Monday - Friday.

Today's Price Surprises
Barchart’s Daily Top Stock Picks

Top Stock Picks showcases the most promising stocks that have just triggered a new Trade entry. We look to find these potential breakout stocks by analyzing the past performance of the trend compared to the overall market, and by using our proprietary algorithm to highlight those stocks that we believe are best placed to out-perform. (Available with a Premier Membership) Sent daily, Monday - Friday.

Top Stock Picks Report
New Trade Alerts for Futures Traders

Be the first to know when a futures contract takes a new Buy or Sell position on Barchart’s futures hypothetical trading system. Called the “Futures Trading Guide”, you’ll get an email report when the 9-18 Day Moving Average Crossover strategy triggers a new Buy or Sell signal for major commodities. (Available with a Premier Membership) Sent daily, Monday - Friday, when a new Buy/Sell condition is detected.

Futures Trading Guide
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