ETF Analysis & Opinion

We recently turned cautiously bullish after holding in our bearishness since the 2018 plunge that remained a hair's breadth away from a formal bear market. However, signs have been mounting that...

Free After-Hours Analysis: It’s been a dramatic 24 hours for the S&P 500. Iran launched rockets at two U.S. airbases on Tuesday evening, sending futures tumbling nearly 2%....

1. Clovis Oncology CLVS had a big reversal day on Wednesday. After plunging under the 50-day on Tuesday, it reached a nominal low at 8.11, before exploding to 11.28, and then pulling back to close up...

Overall, yesterday was a good day for indices despite Middle East tensions. The margins are small, but the S&P 500 is moving nicely along rising trendline support, while the NASDAQ is running...

The nearly 400 point downturn overnight that turned into a 260 point gain during the day. We have stuck to our plan of holding longs in equities, but also holding longs in some...

Stocks had a big rebound in 2019 out of the fourth quarter selloff of the prior year. This occurred even though earnings growth for the S&P 500 flatlined and even turned sequentially negative late...

Outook for S&P 500 Futures from January 8th to January 10th, 2019.Trading Strategy: Short Position Entry Level: 3240 - 3250 Stop Loss Level: 3267 Target Level: 3120 -...

Technology stock investors have made fortunes over the past decade. The combined share values represented in the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 has jumped by more than $7 trillion since 2009, with last year...

1. Apache Corporation (NYSE:APA) was up 6.87, or 27%, to 32.51, closing just pennies off the 32.58 high, on 36.5 million shares on Tuesday. That may be the biggest volume ever seen on this stock. It...

The only way to make money in the stock market is by taking profits in our favorite trades. This blog post covers how I lock-in profits. This is a particularly timely post, not because I...

Last Friday, we received the ISM Manufacturing PMI data for December which came out lower than expected: 47.2 actual vs and expectation of 49.0. This Friday we will get Nonfarm Payroll data from...

S&P 500 (SPY) Stocks were unimpressed by the better than expected ISM non-manufacturing reading of 55. It was only mildly better than estimates for 54.5. Meanwhile, the report revealed some...

I watch the financials ETFs quite closely. The bank sector one, symbol SPDR® S&P Bank ETF (NYSE:KBE), has, on an intraday basis, been making a steady series of stair steps in recent days. The...

The bull run in U.S. equities in recent years strikes many investors as something other than a run-of-the-mill rally. Although Mr. Market has dispensed several sharp corrections, it’s hard to...