ETF Analysis & Opinion

When the market drops sharply, as it did last week, investors get the chance to buy great companies at a discount. This company has an unprecedented history of growth and profitability, along with a...

Question: Why are there so many ETFs? Answer: ETF providers tend to make lots of money on each ETF so they create more products to sell. The large number of ETFs has little to do with serving your...

I have been calculating DeMark Sequential signals by hand for over a decade now. It’s one tool in my technical toolbox that I have found to be very helpful in identifying major trend changes....

The Correction ContinuesFirst, the good news. Despite all of the volatility over the last two months, a seemingly brutal quarter for investors came to an end with a staggering loss on the S&P 500...

Real estate investment trusts (REITs) are as cheap as they’ve been since the financial crisis right now. The sector as a whole has been battered for more than half a year, driving yields on the...

If there is a dominant theme in the Best ETFs for 2018 contest, it would seem to be, “Go America!” and specifically, “Go American tech!”The Market Vectors Semiconductor ETF...

This picture is exactly what I do not want to see as the stock market struggles to hold critical technical supports: a major index of economically-sensitive stocks confirming a breakdown of support at...

SPX Monitoring purposes; Long SPX on 3/22/18 at 2643.69. Monitoring purposes Gold: Covered short GDX on 3/21/18 at 21.86 = gain .073%; Short on 3/6/18 at 22.02. Long Term Trend SPX monitor purposes:...

AT40 = 31.2% of stocks are trading above their respective 40-day moving averages (DMAs)AT200 = 39.4% of stocks are trading above their respective 200DMAsVIX = 22.5Short-term Trading Call:...

The Fed funds rate is 0.25% higher now than it was this time last week. What does this mean for our income investments – especially our monthly dividend payers?We’ll explore in a minute....

As I noted on Monday, stocks still have some life in them.Calling the precise top of a bubble is all but impossible. This is particularly true when you have a White House that openly admits it views...

Here is a brief review of period-over-period change in short interest in the March 1-15 period in nine S&P 500 sectors.Materials Select Sector SPDR (NYSE:XLB)During last week’s selling, XLB...

AT40 = 35.9% of stocks are trading above their respective 40-day moving averages (DMAs) (jumped from 25.6%)AT200 = 43.0% of stocks are trading above their respective 200DMAs (up from 2-year closing...

COMPARISONThe market (S&P 500) did see a strong bounce today after the oscillator hitting the overbought level once again last Friday. Obviously, the price-action itself is much more volatile...