Trading the Trend: How to Identify and Trade Up, Down & Sideways Markets

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Weekly webcast with James Boyd on identifying trends, key indicators, bullish/bearish stock and options strategies, and risk management. Live Q&A; archive available. Options involve significant risk—read the Options Disclosure.

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What stands out

James Boyd used Schwab's "Trading the Trend" webcast to walk through what traders call uptrends, downtrends and sideways markets, and how stocks and options are traded in each regime. That matters for Charles Schwab because educational content that lowers the friction to trade tends to increase retail activity, and Schwab sits squarely in the plumbing of that flow (the session opened with the standard options risk disclosure). For SCHW investors, the webcast is a reminder that retail behavior and volatility can alter revenue and trading volumes faster than the long-term economics.