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When market leaders stumble

by Interactive Brokers Traders Insight|Published January 7, 2019

Steve Sosnick, Interactive Brokers chief options strategist, discusses the key takeaways for investors heading into 2019 as technology market leaders such as Facebook (FB) and Apple (AAPL) falter.

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Interactive Brokers Traders’ Insight (IBTI) is a venue for market-related articles and commentary covering an array of asset classes and topics. All articles published on Traders’ Insight are simultaneously published directly to our trading platform (TWS).
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