ETF Analysis & Opinion

For a number of real estate speculators, financial leverage is a path to riches. Why buy one property with $500,000 when you can buy five properties with $100,000 down on each? After all, the...

Tax day started it. That's when I noted that there were Sharks Circling the Russell 2000 chart. The pattern developing at that time looked to give the Russell a lift. Last week the story got even...

T2108 Status: 81.4%T2107 Status: 62.8% (highest since September, 2014)VIX Status: 13.8General (Short-term) Trading Call: cautiously bullishActive T2108 periods: Day #53 over 20%, Day #52 over 30%, Day...

Monitoring purposes SPX: NeutralMonitoring purposes Gold: Long Market Vectors Gold Miners (NYSE:GDX) on 4/14/16 at 21.60 Long Term Trend monitor purposes: Short SPX on 1/13/16 at 1890.28 The FOMC...

Gold miners (via Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (NYSE:GDX)) are extremely overbought. The longer something rallies, the more confident retail traders become and the more likely they are to chase price...

XLF continues to grind higher toward my next optimal target zone of 23.75-24.00.So far, the high PF print is 23.65. The most recent upleg from 21.85 has coincided with the lift of 10-year yield from...

Today at 2pm Janet Yellen and her FOMC will release a statement on monetary policy. It is anticipated that there will be no change to their actions, keeping short term interest rates steady. In a few...

Some facts are more interesting than others. For example, Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist and perma-bull at Charles Schwab, recently acknowledged that: “…there has not been a...

In the last edition of “Forex Critical” I claimed that the Australian is not likely to maintain its current blistering pace of gains. Just three days later, the stubbornly persistent rally...

SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY)"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction." --George Lorimer A choppy start on low volume as we kick off the...

Technical Outlook:SPX almost had two days of consecutive selling. Instead, it managed to rebound in afternoon trading and actually finish in the green. The last time the market saw two consecutive...

Pre-Open Market AnalysisS&P 500 Emini: Day traders see a weak bull flag candlestick pattern Friday was a High-1 buy signal bar. It will trigger if today trades above Friday’s high. The rally...

Here is your Bonus Idea with links to the full Top Ten:American International Group Inc (NYSE:AIG), pulled back from a double top in December, finding support at $50 at the end of February. Since then...

In the previous week, forex traders extended existing positioning trends. This consistency reveals an on-going confidence in the given trends. Where these changes are consistent with currency moves,...