ETF Analysis & Opinion

SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY)"The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors." --Napoleon Hill Another tough day to be short. I didn't get the...

Monitoring purposes SPX: neutral. Monitoring purposes Gold: Neutral Long-Term Trend monitor purposes: Short SPX on 1/13/16 at 1890.28 Above chart is the Volume Momentum Oscillator for the NYSE. This...

Over the past 5 years, health-care stocks have done well. Actually they've done very well, as they are the best-performing sector in the S&P 500. Health Care ETF (NYSE:XLV) remains inside of a...

The United States Oil (NYSE:USO) continues yesterday's late afternoon reversal downward while this morning Saudi Arabia's oil minister Ali al-Naimi threw water on the hopes of oil producers taking...

Options Expiration Ante Portas – Just as a Resistance Level is ReachedAfter we had penned our little missive on the breakout in gold stocks on Monday, it dawned on us that an options expiration...

The Emini reversed up from a breakout below the neck line of a head and shoulders top on the 60-minute chart, as it usually does. Only 40% of tops lead to reversals. On Friday, I said that reversal...

There may be 525,600 minutes in a normal calendar year. However, there have been 788,400 minutes since the S&P 500 first hit 2050 in November of 2014; there have been 1,314,000 minutes since the...

The market got saved on Tuesday by the news out of Saudi Arabia and Russia as they agreed to a production freeze, the market shot up, and that sent the oil stocks running up. So there will be a lot of...

Here’s the iShares China Large-Cap (NYSE:FXI)…… Whose vulnerability I think is pretty evident from the chart. If it starts to weaken, I suspect the oh-so-perilous S&P 500 will...

Commodities delivered a solid performance last week, posting the strongest gain among the major asset classes via a set of proxy ETFs. Firmer prices in raw materials are widely considered a plus for...

Barron’s did an interview with Bond King Bill Gross in this weekend’s issue (see “Why Interest Rates Must Rise”). While I find his incessant Fed bashing to be tiresome, Gross...

C OILWEEKLY SUMMARY TREND MOMENTUM: 38.58 Bullish PRICE MOMENTUM: 39.18 Bullish PRICE INDICATOR: EXIT LONG S2) 44.64 S1) 42.78 EXIT SHORTS: B1) 37.23 B2) 33.72 WEEKLY MOVING AVERAGES The contract...

As the stock market closed another week of trading, we found the S&P 500, Nasdaq, PowerShares QQQ Trust Series 1 (NASDAQ:QQQ), Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE:XLF), Energy Select Sector SPDR...

As we embark on the April monthly options expiration it is time to do a market analysis. This coincides with the start of earnings season, companies will start reporting results from the first...