ETF Analysis & Opinion

Finding the best ETFs is an increasingly difficult task in a world with so many to choose from. How can you pick with so many choices available?Don’t Trust ETF Labels There are at least 44...

Real estate has been exploding higher for months now. Many real estate markets completely dwarf their peaks during the so-called housing bubble of 2007 (so-called because it’s nothing compared...

Since the lows in 2009, the Nasdaq 100 and Semiconductors (NYSE:SMH) have been much stronger than the S&P 500 (upside leaders). The NDX 100 (left chart) and semiconductors are very near their 2018...

Here is a brief review of period-over-period change in short interest in the May 16-31 period in nine S&P 500 sectors.Materials Select Sector SPDR (NYSE:XLB)XLB (60.92) has made higher lows since...

AT40 = 71.1% of stocks are trading above their respective 40-day moving averages (DMAs) (first overbought day) AT200 = 57.9% of stocks are trading above their respective 200-DMAs (a 4-month high) VIX...

The Fed’s plan of withdrawing $1 trillion in liquidity this year via QT has slammed into a BRIC wall.Year to date, the Fed has shrunken its balance sheet by $116 billion. This sounds like a lot...

The S&P 500 large cap index finally breaks out of a box. Further building on it near term may prove difficult as the options market indicates investor sentiment is sanguine right now.S&P 500...

I don’t want to alarm you, but if you’ve got a lot of cash sitting on the sidelines right now, you’re about to miss out on a double-digit stock-market gain in the next 6 months.In a...

Markets feeling the pressure of Thursday''s selling recovered to maintain recent breakouts. For example, the NASDAQ 100 made it back to breakout support after briefly undercutting this level on...

S&P 500 Mini Non-Commercial Speculator Positions: Large stock market speculators lifted their bullish net positions in the S&P 500 Mini futures markets this week, according to the latest...

Bulls Make A Break For ItLet’s pick up with where we left off last week: “There wasn’t any “bad news,” so to speak, so the “mediocre” news is that despite the...

Holy MOSES, what a boring Friday! As I write, the ES is up .12% and the NQ is down .12%. Average ’em out, and you get a Saturday trading session. So I’ll just put up the good ol’ TLT...

The S&P 500 index is arguably the most well-known worldwide. It is based on the market cap of the 500 largest companies in the U.S. The first-ever ETF, introduced in 1989, hoped to mimic the...

This update is in response to a standing request for real (inflation-adjusted) charts of the S&P 500, Dow 30 and Nasdaq Composite. It includes the latest monthly close data.Here are two overlays...