ETF Analysis & Opinion

T2108 Status: 47.9%T2107 Status: 21.8%VIX Status: 20.7General (Short-term) Trading Call: bullishActive T2108 periods: Day #7 over 20%, Day #6 over 30%, Day #3 over 40% (overperiod), Day #55 below 50%,...

Managing Your Risk: ETFs vs. Futures ContractsMost traders don’t understand that when they’re taking a futures trade, they are taking obligation and full-liability of the total value of...

Our benchmark S&P 500 did a swan dive at the open, following the trend in Europe, where the Euro STOXX 50 would subsequently close with a 1.59% decline. But heading into the lunch hour, oil prices...

Our last article, “Market Correlations & Hedging Strategies”, covered some ETFs that have an inverse correlation to the market, and have been beating the S&P 500 handily over the...

All eyes are on 21.00/25, which represents the next significant resistance zone demarcated by the May 2015 rally high and, more importantly, the 2013-2016 trendline. As such, that line will provide a...

The most popular meme in the stock market today is that as oil moves so do equities. It has gotten to the point where pundits and prognosticators think this is obvious. Does that mean that that when...

The Wall of Worry just keeps adding more bricks. Although there has been much talk about the impact of low oil prices on the U.S. high yield debt market and by extension the U.S. banks that did the...

T2108 Status: 47.9%T2107 Status: 21.4%VIX Status: 19.4General (Short-term) Trading Call: bullishActive T2108 periods: Day #5 over 20%, Day #4 over 30%, Day #1 over 40% (ending 48 days under 40%)...

What if investors had a way to determine the extent of “stress” in the financial system? And what if those stress levels could tell investors whether or not riskier assets (e.g., stocks,...

I can think of no better word except, “astounding”, when considering what is taking place with the giant gold ETF, SPDR Gold Shares (N:GLD) and its reported holdings...

I talked last week about the possibility of the oil ETF (USO (N:USO)) breaking the downtrend off of the November highs.And now it is. This is really monumental. Because this downtrend has been as...

IWM is Likely to Put in a Higher High to Complete the Red Rising Megaphone (N:iShares Russell 2000) is forming a megaphone (blue) across the bottom of its pink topping megaphone. That means IWM is...

Stock markets around the world bounced last week, based on a set of proxy ETFs representing the major asset classes. Breaking with the recent bias for selling risk, global equities (along with REITs...

China has been weak for some time, and the main reason for its current weakness boils down to its loss of a major source of growth – cheap manufacturing labor.It was this advantage –...