ETF Analysis & Opinion

I’ve got June 2018 puts on NYSE:XLP (Consumer Staples), so I follow it closely. After a hard break of its trendline, it’s recovered back to the now-broken line. Looking closer at...

The financial system is preparing for an inflationary shock.The single-best means of measuring inflation vs. deflationary forces in the US financial system is the TIP-to-Long-Treasury (TLT) ratio....

The US economy and global GDP growth is accelerating off a slow, post-2008 below-average pace. S&P 500 earnings are expected at 10% in 2017 and 11% in 2018 – the best growth since...

Real estate investment trusts (REITs) in the US topped a generally rising tide in last week’s market action for the major asset classes, based on a set of exchange-traded products. The lone weak...

Here is your Bonus Idea with links to the full Top Ten:Allstate Corporation (NYSE:ALL) has steadily risen since breaking out of consolidation following the 2016 elections. On closer inspection there...

AT40 = 59.4% of stocks are trading above their respective 40-day moving averages (DMAs)AT200 = 59.9% of stocks are trading above their respective 200DMAsVIX = 9.4Short-term Trading Call: cautiously...

Alcoa (NYSE:AA) Alcoa, $AA, started higher in June, moving higher in a couple of steps. It topped in October and then fell back, breaking down through both the 50 and 100 day SMA’s. It has been...

Tumultuous Retail Real Estate:Unibail is buying Westfield, and Brookfield is trying to buy GGP. Two things that stand out about these retail real estate deals is that some investors are starting to...

I can't t remember the last time I’ve grabbed my iPad and actually saw red on the screen. The ES and NQ are green – Every. Single. Day.Thursday morning was no exception. Concerns about the...

The US stock market has been on a tear lately. Has the party gone too far? A rising chorus of analysts says that caution is advised, citing several valuation metrics. The Shiller PE Ratio, for...

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AT40 = 57.0% of stocks are trading above their respective 40-day moving averages (DMAs)AT200 = 58.8% of stocks are trading above their respective 200DMAsVIX = 10.2Short-term Trading Call: cautiously...

Scores of extremely bullish investors insist that the financial markets today do not resemble the technology stock craze near the tail end of the late 1990s. That position is getting more difficult to...

I’m a big fan of Mystery Science Theatre 3000, and from that series I learned of a famously-bad movie director named Coleman Francis whose movies were “often criticized for their abysmal...