ETF Analysis & Opinion

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The drop from consolidation that started in December led to the S&P 500 retracing over 50% of the move higher from the 2016 low to the September 2018 high. This fueled the crash-talking,...

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SummaryThe UK Brexit vote was a disaster of historic and colossal proportions. Another Fed governor has turned dovish. The SPY (NYSE:SPY) broke through key resistance levels today. The UK's Brexit...

Poor earnings by Citigroup (NYSE:C) and JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) have given investors a chance to buy the dip and they did... Both stocks opened lower after reporting their earnings. However, quickly...

The kiss goodbye?SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY)

This coming Friday is options expiration for the month of January. Usually, the trading week leading into options expiration is filled with a lot of game playing by the institutional crowd. This is...

Securitized real estate shares in the US led markets for the broad-based gains in the major asset classes last week, based on a set of exchange-traded products.Vanguard REIT (NYSE:VNQ), which targets...

Since the intraday low on Boxing Day, SPY (NYSE:SPY) is up nearly 11 percent. Is this too far, too fast? Possibly, as the ETF is just a hairbreadth away from support-turned-resistance at 260, which it...

I last wrote about the FAANGs and FNGU and what I was monitoring in my post of early November 2018. 2018 was the year we saw the FAANGs form bearish shooting stars. Each candle on the following charts...

SummaryAll sectors rose this week. Defensive sectors underperformed on a one-month basis. Although the industrial sector ETF is rising on a relative performance basis, the fundamentals don't support...

Seven trading days don’t tell us much about price trends, but if we plead temporary insanity and restrict our view of performance to the 2019 calendar the numbers look encouraging. What can we...

Here is a brief review of period-over-period change in short interest in the December 17-31 period in nine S&P 500 sectors.XLB (NYSE:XLB) (SPDR materials ETF)Shorts got aggressive during the...

This is yet another “wow!” moment for me. I present to you below the financials ETF, symbol XLF, with a Fibonacci retracement laid on top. I was quite excited to see the result, which is...