ETF Analysis & Opinion

Market UpdateThis past week continues to show the underlying resilience of the current bull market. Despite weaker economic data, a surprise attack on Syria and continuing failures by Congress to move...

Are you ready for some real news? How about corporate earnings? While there is some economic data on tap, the Q1 earnings season starts in earnest this week. With questions about economic strength,...

**These are my thoughts on the SPY (NYSE:SPY) ETF in my Daily Trade Ideas** One of the scariest things in our lives is actually doing what we know we want to do. -Cheryl Strayed This market just...

Many investors are making the right choice to build their core portfolios around low-cost, liquid, and diversified ETFs geared towards dividend paying stocks and bonds. These funds provide transparent...

Do not tell silver speculators that the Federal Reserve is tightening monetary policy.The latest CFTC Commitments of Traders (CoT) report showed that silver speculators ran net long contracts to a new...

Last week’s review of the macro market indicators saw that with the first Quarter in the books, equity markets were trying to brush off the recent pullback and start higher. Elsewhere looked...

“Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.” – Babe RuthWednesday saw some heavy weakness come into stocks in the afternoon and I reduced some positions since...

Market technician Dave Chojnacki of Street One Financial examines Wednesday’s big Fed-fueled intraday reversal, and updates the key technical levels for the major U.S. indexes that investors...

Stock market valuation measures are elevated across the board, for sure. The forward P/E of the S&P 500 is currently 17.7. It is highly correlated with the forward price-to-sales ratio (P/S) of...

Energy stocks have not been a good buy-and-hold investment for the past few years. Looking back over the past 5 years, energy has lagged all of the S&P 500 sectors and is the only S&P sector...

Uncertainty defined 2016. Analysts tried in vain to predict the Fed’s actions on interest rates. Changing commodity prices defied investor expectations. And of course, the presidential election...

Market technician Dave Chojnacki of Street One Financial recaps Tuesday’s anemic market action and notices some technical narrowing that portends a potentially big move coming for stocks in the...

Uranium mining ETF NYSE:URA was one of the top performing ETFs in the first quarter of 2017. What’s next for the sector? In this video I take a look at inter-market analysis of the commodities...

This update is in response to a standing request for real (inflation-adjusted) charts of the S&P 500, Dow 30, and Nasdaq Composite. It includes the latest monthly close data.Here are two overlays...