ETF Analysis & Opinion

The Nasdaq 100 has been humming along the road higher with the cruise control on until last week. That is when it hit a pothole on the highway higher and pulled back. The big question now is whether...

I have been harping on retail as a contrary investment and trade for the past month or so. A reader prompted me to consider whether a seasonal element helps explain the current run-up that has turned...

The big pop that took place on the massive tax bill being forced on the middle class has, shall we say, lost its potency in NASDAQ-land. In particular, semiconductors, which has been an area of...

AT40 = 60.6% of stocks are trading above their respective 40-day moving averages (DMAs)AT200 = 59.6% of stocks are trading above their respective 200DMAsVIX = 11.4Short-term Trading Call: cautiously...

Here is your Bonus Idea with links to the full Top Ten: Express Scripts Holding Co (NASDAQ:ESRX), started heading lower in August 2016. It fell along trend resistance starting in December last year...

In last year's market outlook for 2017, I anticipated a rise of around 11% in U.S. equities, in general, to place the S&P 500 Index at just above the 2400 level by the end of the year (my post was...

This is a pretty straight forward trade. The daily Transportation Index ETF IYT jumped from $173 to $187 in three days, which makes it overbought for a swing-trade short. Then, its major trend-line...

The S&P 500 closed November with a monthly gain of 2.81% after a monthly gain in October of 2.22%. All three S&P 500 MAs are signaling "invested" and all five Ivy Portfolio ETFs —...

It appears that several international Financial ETFs have, generally, performed well over the past couple of years and are either approaching major resistance, or have already reached it, when...

Here is an advance preview of the monthly moving averages we track after the close of the last business day of the month. At this point, before the close on the last day of the month, all three...

When I co-hosted a national talk radio show in 2000, tech stock inquiries came furious and fast. JDSU or Sun Micro? Powerwave or Cisco? Webvan or theGlobe.com?Few expressed concern about a recession....

Market technician Dave Chojnacki of Street One Financial recaps Tuesday’s big equities rally, which was driven by Washington’s tax reform progress, and updates the important technical...

Tax-loss harvesting is one of the more underutilized strategies for taxable investment accounts. This approach involves selling holdings at a loss in the current calendar year to offset capital gains...

It gives me a creative, beneficial distraction from this New Highs Every Day No Matter The News market we’re in. It gets better, you benefit, and I don’t lose my mind. Everyone wins.But...