ETF Analysis & Opinion

The real action was on Wednesday – Thursday wasn't a day to write home about. There was some gap moves at the open but they didn't change the picture by end-of-day. The best you could probably...

“Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.” Well guess what? The S&P 500 futures fooled everyone again. The VIX popped above 13 earlier this week, and the S&P 500...

by Pinchas CohenYesterday, the S&P 500 fell 0.47 percent – led by the 0.99 percent slide in Industrials – the worst decline since the 0.77 percent decline of September 5. The best...

Market technician Dave Chojnacki of Street One Financial recaps Wednesday’s much-needed pullback in the markets and updates the important technical levels to watch for U.S. equities as we head...

AT40 = 57.2% of stocks are trading above their respective 40-day moving averages (DMAs)AT200 = 56.8% of stocks are trading above their respective 200DMAsVIX = 11.2 (was as high as 13.2)Short-term...

Dow Rallies on Earnings U.S. stocks rebounded from yesterday's decline with the Dow rallying on upbeat earnings releases from Caterpillar, 3M and McDonald's, while domestic business activity reports...

Note the breakout for the triple-short ETF symbol NYSE:TMV. Our nation is over $20 trillion in debt, and this fantasy that we’re somehow going to pay for it is a pipe dream. Interest rates are...

A curious trend has emerged within one of the world's major equity benchmarks: the S&P 500. As passive or index investors should be well aware, their portfolios will change over time as the index...

SPX Monitoring purposes; long SPX 10/16/17 at 2557.64. Monitoring purposes Gold: Covered short GDX at 23.23 on 10/20/17 =gain 2.56%; Short GDX on 10/13/17 at 23.84. Long-term Trend monitor purposes:...

I think real estate is screwed and tattooed. For those who want an instrument to take advantage of this, you might consider triple-bearish-on-real-estate fund Direxion Daily Real Estate Bear 3X Shares...

The investment management fee wars just escalated to a new level with the announcement that State Street is dropping expenses and re-naming 15 of its diversified exchange-traded funds. This...

Orwell famously wrote that some animals are more equal than others. As it turns out, during certain months some stock-market sectors are more equal than others. Let’s take a closer look at the...

Banks are flying high and breaking out.We have recently highlighted positive bank patterns and three weeks ago noted that the banking sector was sending bullish signals and that Regional Bank ETF KRE...

Market technician Dave Chojnacki of Street One Financial recaps Monday’s anemic trading action and looks ahead to a busy week for earnings, as the major U.S. indexes look to build upon recent...