ETF Analysis & Opinion

Since the 2009 stock-market lows, investors have looked to the Semiconductor sector for strong returns and market leadership.Just check out its performance vs. the broader stock market: Semiconductor...

Technical analyst Dave Chojnacki of Street One Financial examines the state of the U.S. equities markets with a deep look at the internal technical factors playing a big role in pushing the major...

Building a “market portfolio” has obvious benefits for portfolio design. The asset allocation is relatively objective in the sense that Mr. Market chooses the weights. History suggests...

2017 will easily go down as one of the sturdiest on record for exchange-traded funds. Not only were a multitude of new and exciting funds launched, but fresh heights were achieved in global fund flows...

The ARCA Biotechnology Index is not showing such a bullish outlook as the other index charts. The biotechs are historically a good weather-vane as to where the market goes next. Investors are going to...

The Technology Select Sector SPDR (NYSE:XLK) has the most aggressive chart as it continues to honor its very steep 1.5 year extension channel shown in red below. The last jump was off the ascending...

The iPath Bloomberg Coffee Subindex Total Return Exp 24 June 2038 (NYSE:JO) hit the fresh all-time low that I did not think would happen. A report on surplus sent the iPath Bloomberg Coffee SubTR ETN...

This week’s Chart of the Week features IBB (NASDAQ Biotechnology Index ETF). The chart for iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology (NASDAQ:IBB) is displaying multiple bullish indicators which has led us to...

The Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF (NYSE:XLE) is in focus for many investors and traders as we approach the end of 2017. But is this fund worth owning?Technical analyst Taki Tsaklanos from Investing...

Global markets posted a varied set of performances for the five trading days through last week’s close. On the positive side, US stocks continued to rally, dispensing the best weekly return for...

Technical analyst Dave Chojnacki of Street One Financial kicks off the new trading week with a recap of Friday’s bullish action and updates the key technical indicators to watch for the major...

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...

It seems like an eternity since the S&P 500 Index experienced a pullback of more than 5%. In fact, the last greater than 5% pullback occurred over a year ago during the period of June 8, 2016 to...

On this very quiet weekend, I thought I’d check in on the three ETFs against which I own June 2018 puts. As is obvious, these are puts with a deliberately large amount of time left on them...