ETF Analysis & Opinion

Utilities ETF XLU has had a rough go of it the past two months! Below compares XLU to the S&P 500 over the past year- Sometimes utilities are viewed as interest-sensitive assets. XLU was keeping...

Technical analyst Dave Chojnacki of Street One Financial updates the important technical indicators for the major U.S. averages and finds equities in dire need of a 3% to 5% pullback in the near...

Direxion Daily 20+ Year Treasury Bear 3X Shares (NYSE:TMV) is a 3 X short the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (NASDAQ:TLT). This trade is based on the TLT. For well over three years now the TLT has...

This past weekend, I discussed the surge in market exuberance in terms of both individual and professional investors. Of course, such surges in exuberance are generally indicative of the...

US stocks ticked up to another record close yesterday (Jan. 8) – the fifth consecutive trading day with a new high, based on the S&P 500 Index. For much of the last two years, in fact,...

Market technician Dave Chojnacki of Street One Financial recaps Mondays anemic stock action and looks ahead to Tuesday’s session with an update of the important underlying technicals for the...

Equities in emerging markets posted the strongest return for the major asset classes in 2018’s first week of trading, based on a set of exchange-traded products. The losers for the year-to-date...

Our equity/bond model - This long term reliable investing model provides investors with simple decision making in the markets:- When the model favors stocks, investors should overweigh in equities for...

This week’s Chart of the Week features Utilities Select Sector SPDR (NYSE:XLU) (Utilities Sector ETF), which fell by 8.13%, immediately after reaching all time highs, over the last month. When...

Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX)Boston Scientific, $BSX, started higher after the November 2016 election, taking several steps to get to the top in October 2017. It then corrected in two steps to the...

I am composing over flyover country, hence the title. Anyway, to wrap the weekend up, I thought we could look at a few ETFs. First off, here’s the Dow (SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average...

A weekly excerpt from the Macro Review analysis sent to subscribers on 10 markets and two timeframes. Last week’s review of the macro market indicators noted as 2017 came to a close the equity...

Just a trio of charts with a few words on each. Oil (via United States Oil (NYSE:USO)) has had a tremendous rise for half a year; I think crude could get as high as $67 or so, but it seems to me...

Review and UpdateLast week, we discussed the record-setting year of the market. Not only did the markets tie the most number of up years for any bull market in history, it also hit records for the...