ETF Analysis & Opinion

One of the top stories on CNBC today is about a trader who is relentlessly buying VIX futures despite millions in realized losses. No one can seem to figure out what the purpose of this play is other...

The S&P 500 closed March with a marginal monthly loss of 0.04% after a gain of 3.72% in February. All three S&P 500 MAs are signaling "invested" and three of the five Ivy Portfolio ETFs...

Are emerging markets a buy in 2017 and 2018? If so, which emerging markets specifically should you consider?From a contrarian perspective, emerging markets are hugely bullish. For instance,right after...

Forecasting the direction of the markets on a quarter by quarter basis is no easy feat. There are simply too many unknowns to determine exactly what will happen and how investors will react to future...

“To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.” James CarseWell, I am slowly starting to rebuild a long portfolio and I started with...

Now that the Fed has met and increased interest rates for the third time, I expect more capital to rotate from overvalued stocks to the junior miners similar to what we saw after the dot com crash....

Below looks at the S&P 500's sector performance over the last 5 years. The winner for the lowest performance is the energy sector (-1.42%). Indeed, Energy Select Sector SPDR (NYSE:XLE) is lagging...

The following five percentages gained/lost graphs show, at a glance, which countries and currencies gained the most, so far, this week (Monday, March 27 to, and including, Wednesday, March 29). Of...

Real-Time Risk: What Investors Should Know About FinTech, High-Frequency Trading, and Flash Crashes (Wiley, 2017) by Irene Aldridge and Steve Krawciw is in large measure an advertisement for...

We have covered the uranium mining space extensively in recent months. One of our forecasts was that March 2017 would mark a strong fight between bulls and bears in the uranium mining stock market...

Investors are currently faced with a troubling dilemma: U.S. equities are expensive on most measures, but equity exposure continues to be rewarding and the opportunity cost of being left behind is...

AT40 = 41.5% of stocks are trading above their respective 40-day moving averages (DMAs)AT200 = 59.8% of stocks are trading above their respective 200DMAsVIX = 11.5 (volatility index)Short-term Trading...

"If you can’t live through adversity, you’ll never be good at what you do. You have to live through the unfair things, and you have to develop the hide to not let it bother you and keep...

After reaching a new 20 month high with a strong move on the 15th, iShares MSCI Emerging Markets (NYSE:EEM) have held strong. While the the S&P 500 has had a minor set back since then, dropping as...