ETF Analysis & Opinion

If I had to identify a half-dozen of my favorite movies, The Shawshank Redemption would definitely make the cut.Why am I bringing it up? In essence, the film produced one of the more inspirational...

Extremely heavy positive volume in the 3X ETFs, such as NUGT, JNUG, LABU and ERX, which have been quite predictive of intermediate cycle lows and bullish trending moves that follow. The S&P 500...

T2108 Status: 64.9% (was as high as 69.0% on Black Friday)T2107 Status: 63.0%VIX Status: 13.2 (6.6% gain on the day)General (Short-term) Trading Call: bullishActive T2108 periods: Day #194 over 20%,...

Of late, we have been buying the dips of Direxion Daily Junior Gold Miners Bull 3X Shares (NYSE:JNUG) and Direxion Daily Gold Miners Bull 3X Shares (NYSE:NUGT), two gold stock mining ETFs, and before...

Monday was a good start to the week. I’d like to suggest that emerging markets (via iShares MSCI Emerging Markets (NYSE:EEM)) are just about to get whacked on the side of the head. The magenta...

Economic Calendar & Watch ListsMorning Notes US Futures are tracking slightly lower this morning while European stocks are under pressure led by a decline in the Italian banking sector after the...

Gold-mining stocks had a great first half of the year, but have been hit hard since the summer. Since its August highs, GDX has lost a third of its value. GDX has rarely declined 30% or more in a...

The Health Care sector rally that started with President-elect Trump’s victory on November 8th, and the defeat of Proposition 61 in California, has fizzled out ahead of the Financial and...

A long-term leading sector could be testing a price point, which if it slips, could move a long way and impact the broad markets.Below looks at Bio-Tech ETF (NASDAQ:IBB) over the past few years. IBB...

Video game retailer GameStop Corp (NYSE:GME) late Tuesday posted mixed third quarter earnings results and provided an in-line forecast for the holiday period.The Grapevine, Texas-based company...

Apparel retailer Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ:URBN) late Tuesday posted worse-than-expected third quarter earnings results, causing a major sell-off in its shares after hours.The Philadelphia-based...

Energy, the environment and the climate are “hot” topics these days. On one end of the spectrum there are people that just want the cheapest energy possible in order to spur economic...

JPMorgan Global Convertibles Income Fund (LON:JGCI) is the only UK-listed closed-end fund focusing on convertible bonds. While its primary aim is to provide investors with an income, the fund has...

Briefly: In our opinion, speculative short positions are favored (with stop-loss at 2,240, and profit target at 2,060, S&P 500 index).Our intraday outlook is bearish, and our short-term outlook is...