ETF Analysis & Opinion

I was messing around with SlopeCharts, as I so often do, and I stumbled across one of our more unusual indicators – CARS – which shows motor vehicle production. I overlaid it with the SPDR...

Gold has been very strong since the 12th of this month, but the precious metals miners are going to need some Herculean super-powers at this point to break their long-standing series of lower highs....

Global X Copper Miners (NYSE:COPX), the copper miners ETF, has finally made it back up to the top rail of an expanding flat top triangle which is consolidating the June rally. The 20 day ema has just...

Market technician Dave Chojnacki of Street One Financial checks in during a holiday-shortened trading week to update the important technical indicators for the major U.S. averages, which look poised...

From Tony Sagami: How was your holiday? Mine was spectacular. I am much too old to sit on Santa’s lap. And the meaning of the holiday season has dramatically changed for me over the years.As a...

Some feel assets or charts have memories. If this is true, tech bulls might be hoping to forget a certain level. The above chart looks at tech ETF (NYSE:XLK) on a monthly basis since 1998. XLK peaked...

The reports on U.S. holiday shopping are coming fast and furious. The early tally looks quite bullish, and retail stocks responded. The SPDR S&P Retail (NYSE:XRT) jumped 1.1% today to a new high...

Most traders cut back earlier in the week and were long gone from their trading screens by Friday. Only the diehard traders were left watching the futures. The big thing that happened was not the...

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Perhaps my favorite (albeit slow-moving) analog of all time is the financials sector (NYSE:XLF). In spite of a market that is generally still quite strong, the financials are starting to stall and...

The strong advance in international (global ex-US) equity markets this year slowed down in the final quarter as advanced-economy markets consolidated their substantial gains and some emerging markets...

Stocks in emerging markets head into the final week of trading for 2017 with a bullish tailwind. Rising for a third week in a row, equities in this corner posted the strongest gain among the major...

Current Position of the MarketSPX: Long-term trend – The bull market is continuing with no sign of a major top in sight. Intermediate trend– Possible short-term high. Analysis of the...

5 Trade ideas excerpted from the detailed analysis and plan for premium subscribers:Exelixis Inc (NASDAQ:EXEL) Exelixis, $EXEL, rose in June through the 50 and 100 day SMA’s into a Diamond...