ETF Analysis & Opinion

"Some people want it to happen, some people wish it would happen, others make it happen.” — Michael JordanA strong close Friday for stocks is what we want to see, and tells me we remain...

The theme for single country ETFs over the last month is either countries that produce a lot of natural resources (commodities) or countries in which sane people don’t invest. Okay, maybe sanity...

Here are the rest of the Top 10 Trade Ideas:Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT) Abbott Laboratories, ABT, started a move lower to begin 2016 and continued for a month. It found a bottom at the end of...

Summary: Equities fell for the first time in six weeks. The intermediate-term uptrend remains healthy, but some minor short-term weakness has crept in. The SPDR S&P 500 Fund (NYSE:SPY) could be...

Taking a look at the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (NYSE:TLT) ETF, we see what is undeniably a very bullish chart. The top chart below shows daily bars and the lower chart shows weekly bars. The most...

Global equity markets tumbled in January and then recovered in the second and third months of the first quarter of 2016. The year began with increased concern about the slowdown in the world’s...

CRUDE OILWEEKLY SUMMARY TREND MOMENTUM: 36.87 Bullish PRICE MOMENTUM: 39.94 Bearish PRICE INDICATOR: EXIT LONG S2) 43.51 S1) 41.55 EXIT SHORTS: B1) 37.98 B2) 36.37 WEEKLY MOVING AVERAGES The contract...

My grandfather was never rich. He did have some money in the 1920s, but he lost most of it at the tail end of the decade. Some of it disappeared in the stock market crash in October of 1929. The rest...

Monitoring purposes SPX: Sold long on 3/1/16 at 1978.35 = gain 3.12%: Long SPX on 2/19/16 at 1917.78.Monitoring purposes GOLD: Short Market Vectors Gold Miners (NYSE:GDX) on 2/24/16 at 19.11. Long...

T2108 Status: 81.6%T2107 Status: 39.3%VIX Status: 14.9General (Short-term) Trading Call: cautiously bullishActive T2108 periods: Day #29 over 20%, Day #28 over 30%, Day #25 over 40%, Day #22 over 50%,...

Looking at the PowerShares QQQ Trust Series 1 (NASDAQ:QQQ) ETF and the United States Oil (NYSE:USO) ETF (which has been leading the QQQ in the big short squeeze), we see that both have stopped at...

The term bear market rally is one that has been used with great enthusiasm over the last month. Many believe that the recent uphill climb in the market is due to a sharp rebound as a result of...

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." --Pablo PicassoNot a bad day in the wake of a round of cowardly terror acts in Brussels this morning. My thoughts go out...

The S&P 500 notched an all-time record high of 2130 on May 21, 2015. That was 10 months ago. Since that date, the popular gauge has suffered two faith-rattling corrections – a 12% decline in...