ETF Analysis & Opinion

It will be a holiday-shortened trading week with the markets closed on Monday, and reopening on Tuesday. It will be a significantly slower week in terms of economics, but a considerably busier week in...

With earnings season quickly approaching, it is perhaps a good time to look at the S&P 500 from a valuation perspective over the longer-term. Recently we have been focusing on the market’s...

1. ASLAN Pharmaceuticals (ASLN)Aslan Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ASLN) was recently added as a swing. This stock had a monstrous, explosive move in mid Nov, literally going from 38 cents to 8.18 in about...

With the U.S.-China trade war out of the way, after the signing last week of the Phase 1 portion of the deal, the coming week will be all about earnings. Several mega cap U.S. technology and consumer...

Strategy I: Here Comes Another Earnings Season. First, the bad news: During the 1/9 week, industry analysts estimated that S&P 500 earnings per share fell 1.7% y/y in Q4-2019 (Fig. 1). They...

In last week’s missive, I discussed a couple of charts which suggested the markets are pushing limits which have previously resulted in fairly brutal reversions. This week, the market pushed...

(Friday Market Open) If you’re bullish, this must feel like the week that keeps on giving.Sure, there was a slight hiccup a couple days ago, but since then things have gone pretty much straight...

As U.S. banks come to the end of one of their best ever earnings seasons, investors are looking for clues as to whether the larger U.S. lenders will be able to sustain this record-breaking streak of...

Earnings news from Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) sent the stock absolutely raging today. This is especially interesting in a long-term context. Look how, in the past, MS had well-formed tops...

Lifetime highs, all across the board! How about that? The fabled FAANG stocks have apparently busted into two groups. The first, Facebook), Apple and Google, are all persistently, consistently pushing...

I wanted to do it. I really did. But I was too scared.I’m referring to Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA), of course. In fact, for those of you who watch me on TastyTrade, I said during my show yesterday,...

Anyway, at this point, the market continues grinding higher. It is making my belief of a pullback seem less likely at this point, or the very least being wrong. But it may be too early to admit...

The juxtaposition of snow today seems incongruous compared to the hot stock market.The east coast USA, and in the last couple of days the southwest, have had unseasonably warm days. The warmer days...

Earlier this month we reviewed how recent performance for the S&P 500 Index stacked up relative to history. Let’s extend the analysis to risk. As we’ll see, deciding if risk is...