Randy Frederick

The stock market has experienced some extreme volatility in recent weeks, but JJ Kinahan, TD Ameritrade's chief market strategist, says retail traders have still been buying stocks. In fact, they increased their exposure to equities by about 10% overall in February, Kinahan said during an...

The Volatility Index, also known as the "fear index," briefly traded below the 10 mark on Wednesday for less than one minute immediately following the Federal Reserve's announcement that interest rates will be maintained at current levels. Regardless of the very brief time it traded below 10, it...

Americans earn on average $828 a week, according to CNN Money, which cited data from the U.S. Department of Labor. The rise in average salaries marks a significant improvement from $730 per week during the peak of the Great Recession, and businesses are now feeling the pressure to pay...

Randy Frederick says that people probably use to think that options traders were always speculating, taking a lot of big risks and putting a lot of money down waiting for big gambles to pay off. Frederick is the managing director for trading and derivatives at Charles Schwab. He recently joined...

There has been debate this year, as always, about whether a ‘Santa Claus rally’ would happen.  In fact, the seasonal anomaly in which abnormally positive returns take place in the market during the month of December has happened 80 percent of the time over the past 20 years. This year, some...