ETF Analysis & Opinion

Markets on Monday were in a mildly depressed mood. Asian indexes were mixed, but gold finished lower, crude oil declined and European indexes lost ground. Our benchmark S&P 500 wiggled through the...

Crude OilWeekly summary Trend momentum: 43.31 bullish Price momentum: 47.59 bullish Price indicator: Exit long s2) 50.39 s1) 49.03 Exit shorts: b1) 46.23 b2) 44.79 Weekly Moving Averages The contract...

Here is your Bonus Idea with links to the full Top Ten:FedEx (NYSE:FDX), drove lower from a high last June, the final step a move from the December bounce to a low in January. Since then it reversed...

Stock markets in the developed world outside the US led the major asset classes higher last week, based on a set of proxy ETFs. Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets (NYSE:VEA) posted an 0.8% total return...

After a volatile but stagnant final two months of the year, in which the market straddled the moving averages with no clear direction, the S&P 500 Index (NYSE:IVV) broke down in early January,...

T2108 Status: 48.4%T2107 Status: 55.8%VIX Status: 15.2 (was as high as 17.6 the previous day)General (Short-term) Trading Call: cautiously bearishActive T2108 periods: Day #69 over 20%, Day #68 over...

Everyone hated energy ETFs last year as plunging oil and natural gas prices eroded valuations of companies engaged in this sector. The weakening demand for global commodities wrought havoc among large...

The stock market is under distribution, this is a fact. Simply put, professional selling overwhelms the buying and prices head lower. As the markets ebb and flow with the money coming in/out we are...

Some investors have come to believe that ultra-low interest rates alone have made traditional valuations obsolete. The irony of the error in judgment? Experts and analysts made similar claims prior to...

I could go on in detail about why and what price spikes provide us short term trades with, and I will in a future article and video. Keeping things short and simple we will let the charts do the...

The S&P 500 fell out of bed Thursday morning when the Philly Manufacturing Index came in below expectations. This conspired with Wednesday’s rate-hike fears and we crashed through 2,040...

It was another sloppy day on Wall Street on Wednesday, and support barely held before they rallied late in the day. That can be seen in a lot of the oil and gold stocks, in particular. I’m not...

Friday marks the one-year anniversary of the S&P 500's all-time high. And yet since then, the market has been just a few percentage points away almost the whole time. How depressing is that? This...

As we search for national equity markets that look attractive despite the sluggish tenor of global markets, we are considering the potential now offered by Canada. Recovering from the downdraft from...