ETF Analysis & Opinion

“The bad news is, time flies. The good news is, you’re the pilot.” – Michael AltshulerA few stocks are acting nice, especially in the mining sector, but for the most part we...

Each week Felix and Oscar host a poker game. We listen in on current trading ideas in the few minutes before the game starts. They like to call this their “Stock Exchange.” I am the only...

Almost two months ago, I explained my decision to sell my position in iShares MSCI Brazil Capped (NYSE:EWZ). I also pointed to a 20% correction as the next time I will consider buying again. Since...

The S&P 500 spent the early trade yesterday in apparent indecision following the pre-market release of upbeat residential building permits but downbeat starts, hitting its -0.07% intraday low...

Monitoring purposes SPX: Covered short 10/13/16 at 2132.55 = gain 1.29%. Short SPX 10/5/16 at 2159.73. Monitoring purposes Gold: Covered GDX 10/6/16 at 22.88= gain 17.5%; Short GDX 9/22/16 at...

GDX (NYSE:GDX) has now completed a weekly swing barring a complete reversal the rest of the week. This deep into an intermediate decline a swing stacks the odds heavily in favor of the correction...

From my big-picture SPY P&F chart, we can see that nothing directional is happening -- at least not yet. But within the sideways pattern, SPY appears to be traversing its contracting range from...

Equal weighting asset allocation doesn’t look encouraging as a portfolio-design tool, based on last week’s preliminary analysis. Can we salvage equal weighting by expanding the opportunity...

A few years ago I read a very interesting report. It alleged that the average memory of the non-professional is less than 2 years back. In other words, if you are one of these people who encouraged by...

Here are a number of incontrovertible facts:1. A bull market in stocks ends every bear market 2. A bear market in stocks ends every bull market 3. The Federal Reserve cannot prevent a bear market in...

ProShares UltraPro S&P500 (NYSE:UPRO): I can’t emphasize enough how well-behaved the markets are being vis a vis the now-broken trendlines. It’s glorious.

Here is your Bonus Idea with links to the full Top Ten:CVS Health (NYSE:CVS), started moving lower in August of 2015. It took a few steps down but found support at 86.50 in February 2016. It bounced...

US real estate investment trusts (REITs) posted the first weekly gain since mid-September for the five trading days through Oct 14. Commodities (broadly defined) gained ground last week too. But...

And they say Twitter (Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR)) has no value. On October 14th, Bernie Sanders was given credit for taking down the shares of Ariad Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ARIA) using the power of...