ETF Analysis & Opinion

Sometimes an idea sounds very sensible but doesn’t end up looking so great in practice. And some ideas work out great in practice (caveat: at least for awhile) but don’t necessarily make a...

Technical analyst Dave Chojnacki of Street One Financial recaps Tuesday’s negative session for equities and updates the major underlying technical indicators for the U.S. averages that are...

The case for holding a portfolio that’s diversified across markets and asset classes is built on the assumption that return correlations will remain below 1.0 (perfect positive correlation) by...

AT40 = 48.7% of stocks are trading above their respective 40-day moving averages (DMAs)AT200 = 51.9% of stocks are trading above their respective 200DMAsVIX = 16.4Short-term Trading Call:...

Ignore the pundits’ petrified bleating over rising interest rates. Sure, the yield on the 10-Year Treasury has spiked to 2.9%, but you’re still not retiring on it!Look at it this way: if...

When semiconductors go, they really ”go.” Unfortunately, when they tank, they really “tank”. Even a quick glimpse of Figure 1 makes this quite obvious. Figure 1 displays ticker...

CLUES BACK IN FEBRUARYA February 26 post outlined the longer-term risk-on implications of trend flips in the stock (NYSE:SPY) vs. bond (NASDAQ:TLT) ratio and the tech (NYSE:VGT) vs. bond (NASDAQ:TLT)...

Equities and real estate investment trusts (REITs) led most markets higher last week. Rebounding after a weak start to this month’s trading, nearly all the major asset classes posted gains in...

Here is a brief review of period-over-period change in short interest in the February 16-28 period in nine S&P 500 sector ETFs.Materials Select Sector SPDR (NYSE:XLB)Post-February 9 low/reversal,...

The big rebound is on! But don’t worry, your opportunity to grab big gains (and dividends) hasn’t evaporated.There’s still time! And you can start with 3 of the 4 funds I pounded the...

Current Position of the MarketS&P 500: Long-term trend – The bull market is continuing with a top expected in the low 3000s. Intermediate trend–The intermediate correction from 2872...

Aflac Incorporated (NYSE:AFL) Aflac, $AFL, started moving higher in May. It continued to run higher until it topped in early January. From there it pulled back to the 100 day SMA before bouncing back...

On this quiet Sunday, before what promises to be another dynamic trading week, let’s look at a few real-estate oriented ETFs. Starting off, we have the SPDR Homebuilders (NYSE:XHB), which has...

I see that the brief recess we got from braggadocio is gone. Not only that, but he explicitly mentioned the stock market again as evidence of how great things are. So, yeah, our time machine back to...