ETF Analysis & Opinion

Remember when the financial markets believed that tax cuts, regulatory reform and infrastructure spending would rev up the economic growth engine? The dollar surged. Bonds cratered. And stocks broke...

Retail stocks have been trading lower since April 2015. Back then, the SPDR S&P Retail (MX:XRT) (ETF) XRT was trading around $51. Today, the XRT is at $40.44 a share. Clearly, the trend is down...

SPX Monitoring purposes; Sold long SPX 5/23/17 at 2398.42 = +1.76%; Long SPX 5/17/17 at 2357.03. Monitoring purposes Gold: Short GDX on 5/22/17 at 23.20. Long-term trend monitor purposes:...

iShares Russell 2000 (NYSE:IWM) looks like it will put in the rest of the leg down to its bright blue megaphone bottom. The S&P 500 pushed a feeler through the top of the megaphone it’s been...

Consumer Staples are not sexy. Toilet paper, laundry detergent, diapers, milk, bread…. you need them every day no matter what is going on in the world. the companies that make these items are...

Technology is one of those sectors where consumers and investors are constantly looking for the next big thing. The truly innovative service or product that is going to have life-changing impact and...

As we've noted before, US stocks are putting a bow on a stellar earnings season. At the start of the week, 95% of the companies in the S&P 500 had reported their Q1 earnings, with 75% of those...

In life you get a confirmation for every transaction you make. Sometimes more than one. A receipt at the grocery store followed by a transaction showing up on a credit card statement. Sometimes it is...

today we geographically move a bit north of Australia and into the Asia Pacific region.There are a handful of ETFs that track Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, some of which are very tenured funds....

The iShares Dow Jones US Aerospace & Defense ETF (NYSE:ITA) was on the rise Monday morning, amid President Trump’s weekend arms deal with Saudi Arabia.The president, who last week made his...

Here is your Bonus Idea with links to the full Top Ten:Aetna (NYSE:AET) built an ascending triangle from the beginning of November through to the beginning of May. The sixth touch was the charm and...

My “Lessons I Never Seen to Learn” list has a growing number of entries. I’ve talked about the Gartman one repeatedly, but another one is this – – never short Mexico! I...

The broad US stock market last week took a tumble, sending a massive wave of fear through investors’ minds. On Wednesday May 17th the S&P 500 index plummeted 1.7% causing the fear index to...

AT40 = 42.8% of stocks are trading above their respective 40-day moving averages (DMAs)AT200 = 54.3% of stocks are trading above their respective 200DMAsVIX = 12.0 (volatility index) – a 17.9%...