ETF Analysis & Opinion

Industrial companies remain the strongest-performing sector for the US stock market year to date, based on a set of exchange-traded funds. Although all the major equity sectors are posting gains so...

The benchmark for the Emerging Markets performance, the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets (EEM) ETF is consolidating around the 200-day average possibly forming a larger scale bottom reversal chart...

Technically Speaking For March 11SummaryInflation expectations are somewhat higher. Retail sales rebounded, but we're not out of the woods with this data set just yet. The indexes had a strong day,...

The market has been going pretty much vertical since Friday, and today’s rally is a little mysterious. As far as I can tell, there’s no news – – none – – to explain...

The U.S. stock market opened mixed yesterday. The crash of the Ethiopian Airlines, Boeing (NYSE:BA) passenger jet prompted selling in the Blue Chips, particularly in Boeing. But during the day now,...

On the 20th-Anniversary of the very popular NDX 100 ETF (NASDAQ:QQQ), the ETF finds itself working on a what could be an important breakout level. This monthly chart of QQQ applied Fibonacci extension...

The U.S. Dollar Index continues to stair-step higher, defying the expectations of a bearish majority. The rally (alignment) will only intensify as the financial crisis in Europe unfolds into plain...

One of my best-performing ETF shorts continues to be the SPDR S&P Metals & Mining (NYSE:XME). It has been turning away from its fourth clear reversal pattern (see cyan tints), and I anticipate...

Everything that I was looking at on Wednesday has delivered except that SPX has not quite yet reached the H&S target at 2720. The daily RSI 5/NYMO sell signal fixed and reached the target, the...

SPY Trends And Influencers March 9, 2019 As the calendar turned to March, the equity markets continued to roar like a lion and market participants continued to look for reasons to sell. Elsewhere...

The NYSE index is facing a very important price level as momentum and the MACD are at their highest levels in a year. The nine-week rally from the late December lows has the NYSE index facing the...

Whilst the main news item of the day was the ECB rate statement and associated press conference, the significance of this was not lost on U.S. markets which remain weak as the country's war of words...

Searching for battered and bruised assets through an ETF lens continues to highlight commodities. There are select cases of deep value represented by other asset classes, but at the extreme, this...

The stock market has had a very strong run higher since the Christmas Eve low. But one sector that has done well is of particular interest. It is the Utilities Sector. Utilities are supposed to be...