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Daily Briefing
Markets Closed for Labor Day, But Iran Tensions and a Loaded Earnings Week Await — September 7, 2026
US markets are shut for Labor Day, but oil is rising on US-Iran tanker strikes, Asia rallied overnight, and Oracle/Adobe/RH headline a big earnings week ahead of Friday's CPI.
5 minDaily Briefing
Markets Brace for Fed Blackout Week After Blowout Jobs Report (Sep 6, 2026)
August payrolls smashed estimates, the Fed enters its blackout period, and Oracle, Adobe and RH headline a loaded earnings week.
4 minDaily Briefing
Payrolls Beat, Yields Jump, Tesla Stumbles: Week in Review, Sept. 5, 2026
August payrolls crushed estimates, reviving Fed rate-hike odds, while Tesla's Cybercab launch disappointed. Here's what matters before markets reopen Tuesday.
3 minDaily Briefing
Jobs Day Arrives With the Fed's Playbook Flipped — September 4, 2026
Stocks rallied hard into Friday's payrolls report, but with the Fed leaning hawkish, a strong jobs number—not a weak one—is the risk to watch today.
5 minDaily Briefing
Market Briefing, September 2, 2026: Iran Strikes Rattle Oil and Yields Ahead of Broadcom Earnings
Oil and Treasury yields jump as US-Iran tensions escalate, rate-hike odds climb to 57.5%, and Broadcom headlines a loaded earnings slate tonight.
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Education
Is Copy Trading Legal in the US? Rules, Brokers, and How It Works
Yes, copy trading is legal in the US when your money stays at your own regulated broker, you choose whom to follow, and orders run through your broker's rules. Here is the law behind that answer, how copy trading works, which brokers support it, and how much you need to start.
10 minDaily Briefing
Market Briefing: Iran Conflict Reignites, Oil Jumps — September 1, 2026
Fresh U.S.-Iran strikes sent oil higher and yields to 2026 highs as futures dip; ISM/JOLTS and a loaded earnings slate loom.
5 minDaily Briefing
Markets Brace for Iran Fallout and a Hawkish Fed: Aug 31, 2026 Briefing
Oil jumps on fresh Iran strikes, Fed hawkishness lingers from Jackson Hole, and dealer gamma has SPY and QQQ pinned into a tight range this week.
5 minDaily Briefing
Warsh Spooked Bonds, Stocks Shrugged It Off: Week in Review, Aug 30, 2026
Jackson Hole's hawkish tone lifted rate-hike odds, but stocks still closed the week higher. Jobs data and Broadcom earnings headline the week ahead.
4 minDaily Briefing
Warsh Turns Hawkish, PayPal Deal Collapses: Weekly Market Recap — August 29, 2026
A hawkish Fed, a collapsed $53B PayPal buyout, and chip-stock whiplash set up a jobs-report showdown next week. Here's everything that matters before Monday's open.
4 minDaily Briefing
Market Briefing, Aug 28 2026: Nvidia's Rally Meets Warsh's Debut Speech
Nvidia's beat-and-raise lifted the Nasdaq to its best day since August, but Marvell's guidance and Fed Chair Warsh's first Jackson Hole speech loom over Friday's open.
4 minDaily Briefing
Market Briefing: Nvidia's Blowout Quarter Sets the Tone for August 27, 2026
Nvidia's blowout guidance lifted futures overnight, but sticky inflation, a US-Canada tariff fight and a wall of earnings keep today's tape complicated.
5 minEducation
Copy Trading vs Signal Groups: Why Text Alerts Are Not Copy Trading
A Discord room or screenshot feed is a message — you are still the execution layer. Copy trading starts from a broker fill, runs your size and 14 risk rules, then reaches your broker. Here is the difference, line by line.
5 minEducation
Best Options Copy Trading: What to Look For (2026)
A checklist for judging any options copy trading product: where the public P&L comes from, whether size scales to your account, which risk caps fire before an order leaves, whether it executes at the broker you already use, and whether both bills — software and trader — are shown up front. Use it on Alertsify too.
5 minEducation
Copy Trading on Robinhood: Live Options Execution
Copy options trades into the Robinhood account you already have. Alertsify places the order at Robinhood, funds never leave your broker, and public stats come from broker fills. Robinhood is one of 10 full-trade brokers. Not affiliated with Robinhood.
4 minEducation
Options Copy Trading: Broker Fills in Your Account
Options copy trading mirrors a lead trader's broker fill — underlying, strike, expiry, call or put — into your own account at your size. Funds stay at your broker. 10 brokers including Robinhood, $600M+ executed, and 14 risk controls that skip a copy before it reaches the broker.
6 minDaily Briefing
Market Briefing, August 26, 2026: Stocks Dip as Nvidia and PCE Loom
Futures are flat-to-lower ahead of Core PCE and Nvidia's earnings tonight, with Intuit and Zoom sliding on soft guidance and dealer gamma pinning SPY and QQQ.
5 minDaily Briefing
Market Briefing: Chip Stocks Steady, Nvidia Looms — August 25, 2026
Futures rebound after a chip-led selloff as traders position for Nvidia's Wednesday earnings, Iran sanctions, and a 10am confidence/housing data double.
5 minDaily Briefing
Market Briefing: Iran Sanctions, Sky-High Yields, and Nvidia Week Ahead — August 24, 2026
Bessent's Iran sanctions, a 20-month-high 10-year yield, and a loaded pre-Jackson Hole earnings week set up a headline-driven Monday for stocks.
5 minDaily Briefing
Markets Brace for Nvidia and Jackson Hole: Weekly Briefing, Aug 23, 2026
Stocks bounced Friday but still logged a losing week as yields climbed and Iran vowed retaliation over the weekend; Nvidia earnings and Jackson Hole headline the week ahead.
5 minDaily Briefing
Dow Jumps 1% to Cap a Wild Week — Market Briefing, Aug 22, 2026
Stocks rebounded Friday after a bond-yield selloff. Here's what mattered this week and what's ahead: Nvidia earnings, core PCE, and Fed Chair Warsh's Jackson Hole debut.
4 minDaily Briefing
Market Briefing, August 21, 2026: The Bond Rescue Is Fading Fast
Treasury yields snapped back to 5.25%, stocks head for a third losing week, and oil jumps on new Iran isolation threats — here's everything traders need before the bell.
4 minDaily Briefing
Market Briefing, Aug 20 2026: Alibaba's Profit Sinks 75% as Treasury Buyback Calms Yields
Treasury debt buybacks eased the yield spike, Alibaba's profit cratered 75% on AI spending, and a five-name earnings pileup headlines a busy Thursday.
4 minDaily Briefing
Market Briefing, Aug 19 2026: 30-Year Yield Hits a 19-Year High as Retail Earnings Pile Up
Global bond yields surged to multi-decade highs and the AI trade wobbled again, setting up a volatile session with five retail earnings and FOMC minutes ahead.
4 minDaily Briefing
Oil Spikes on Iran, Home Depot Beats: Market Briefing for August 18, 2026
Iran ceasefire lapses and oil jumps toward $85, futures slide, Home Depot beats and reaffirms guidance, and FOMC minutes loom Wednesday.
5 minDaily Briefing
Anthropic's Revenue Surge Meets an Iran Ceasefire Deadline: Markets Today, August 17, 2026
Anthropic's 14-fold revenue jump lifts AI stocks as an Iran ceasefire deadline threatens oil, yields hold near cycle highs, and retail earnings kick off this week.
4 minDaily Briefing
Week in Review: Records, a Retail-Sales Miss, and a Loaded Week Ahead (Aug 16, 2026)
S&P 500 hit a fresh record above 7,800 before a soft retail-sales report knocked it back — but it's still a third straight winning week heading into a huge earnings and Fed-minutes calendar.
5 minDaily Briefing
Market Close Recap: Records, Sentiment Shock, and a Retail Earnings Gauntlet Ahead (Aug 15, 2026)
The S&P notched a third straight weekly gain despite Friday's slip on a consumer-sentiment shock; next week brings retail earnings, FOMC minutes, and Reddit's S&P 500 debut.
5 minDaily Briefing
Markets Daily: S&P 500 Tops 7,800 as Retail Sales Loom — Aug 14, 2026
The S&P 500 closed above 7,800 for the first time on a cool PPI print; Friday's retail sales and Michigan sentiment are the next test for the rally.
4 minDaily Briefing
Markets Brief, August 13, 2026: CPI Cools to 3.4%, AI Earnings Keep the Rally Alive
July CPI cooled to 3.4%, AI-linked earnings powered tech to fresh highs, and Applied Materials headlines an after-the-close earnings test tonight.
4 minPlatform Updates
Copy Trading Risk Controls: 14 New Ways to Protect Your Account
Alertsify shipped 14 account-level risk controls for options copy trading. Set max daily loss, max risk per trade, liquidity floors, and 0DTE rules once, and any copy that breaks a rule is skipped before it ever reaches your broker.
8 minDaily Briefing
CPI Day Arrives After Two Down Sessions — Market Briefing, August 12, 2026
Stocks fell for a second straight session ahead of today's CPI print, with oil elevated on Iran tensions and Cisco, Coherent and Cerebras headlining a loaded earnings night.
4 minDaily Briefing
Markets Steady Before CPI: NFIB Beats, Oil Spikes, Earnings Loom (Aug 11, 2026)
NFIB optimism beat expectations, oil's Strait of Hormuz spike keeps a September hike alive, and CoreWeave, SMCI, Lumentum and Cava headline tonight's earnings.
4 minDaily Briefing
Markets Hold Near Records as Rate-Cut Bets Rise: Daily Briefing for August 10, 2026
S&P 500 and Nasdaq hover near records as soft jobs data lifts Fed rate-cut hopes, while traders eye this week's CPI print and AI earnings.
3 minDaily Briefing
Markets Notch Record Highs as Soft Jobs Report Reshapes Fed Bets — Sunday, August 9, 2026
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed at record highs Friday after a surprise payrolls decline, setting up a pivotal CPI test next week.
3 minDaily Briefing
Markets Hit Record Highs as Weak Jobs Report Reshapes Fed Bets — August 8, 2026
A surprise July jobs decline sent the S&P 500 and Nasdaq to record closes and delivered the best weekly gain since April, with semiconductors and gold leading the charge.
3 minDaily Briefing
Stocks Slip as Oil Spikes and Jobs Report Looms — Market Briefing, Aug 7, 2026
Stocks fell for a second day as Brent crude jumped ~4% on geopolitical tensions ahead of Friday's July jobs report and a divided Fed.
3 minMarket Briefings
Daily Market Briefing — August 6, 2026
Two catalysts bracket the session: 8:30 AM claims and productivity data with September hike odds near 55%, and tonight's Trade Desk (±11%), DraftKings and Microchip reports after brutal earnings reactions. SPY dealer levels: 750 support, 775 resistance.
4 minMarket Briefings
Daily Market Briefing — August 5, 2026
Markets sit at records with dealer gamma below price. ISM Services at 10 AM ET and the post-earnings tape (SHOP +~24%, AMD −~9%) decide if the melt-up continues. Sandisk's ±13% expected move tonight is the week's biggest single-stock vol event ahead of Friday's jobs report.
5 minEducation
How to Copy Trade Options: Step-by-Step From Your Own Brokerage
To copy trade options, connect your own brokerage to a copy trading platform, vet a lead trader with broker-verified stats, set position caps, and copied orders reach your broker in under a second.
10 minEducation
Alertsify Supported Brokers: Full Trade vs Read-Only (2026)
Alertsify has two connection tiers. Full trade — ten brokers including Robinhood, Schwab, E*TRADE and Webull — can place your own orders and copies in that account. Read-only pulls broker-verified stats and cannot place an order. Your password is never stored and your funds never leave the broker.
4 minMarket Briefings
Daily Market Briefing — August 4, 2026
Morning setup + Close Wrap: record closes for the S&P 500 and Dow as SPY broke the 760 call wall and finished at 771.33. AMD (-7%) and SpaceX (-6.5%) slipped after hours despite beats.
5 min
Platform Updates
Alertsify Crosses $100M in Copy Trading Options Executions
Alertsify just crossed $100M in broker-verified copy trading options executions — real contracts, real accounts, real settlements. Here's why it matters.
4 min
Platform Updates
Alertsify Option Trading Software Update (2026): New Analytics, Broker-Verified Data, and What Changed
The latest Alertsify platform update focuses on broker truth — no projections, no inflated metrics, just verified data pulled directly from your connected brokerage account.
1 min
Platform Updates
Duplicate Copy Trade Protection: Smarter, Safer Execution
Alertsify's new Duplicate Copy Trade Protection detects overlapping signals from multiple traders and prevents duplicate orders from stacking in your account.
4 min
Platform Updates
Alertsify Launches Broker-Verified Analytics for Copy Trading
Alertsify launches broker-verified analytics that pull every P&L, win rate, and trade stat directly from your broker — no self-reporting, no inflated claims.
5 min
Platform Updates
Alertsify Rebuilds Execution Engine for Faster Copy Trading
Alertsify rebuilt its execution engine for faster copy trading — lower latency, smarter STC logic, and more reliable broker-verified order routing.
4 min
Platform Updates
Alertsify Public Trader Pages: Verified P&L for Every Copy Trader
Alertsify public trader pages give every copy trader a transparent profile with broker-verified P&L, real subscriber reviews, and full trade history.
4 min
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