ETF Analysis & Opinion

This past week, the S&P 500 Cap-Weighted Index ((N:IVV)) tested and then broke strong support at the 50 and 200-day moving averages after a remarkable rebound from its crushing meltdown in August...

Here are the Rest of the Top 10:Abbott Laboratories (N:ABT) Abbott Laboratories, $ABT, went through a long consolidation after it fell with the market in August and September. As 2016 started it...

Most investors can talk valuation until they are blue in the face, but I’ve learned to ignore the charts at significant peril. The above is the weekly chart of the S&P 500, and as readers...

**These are my thoughts on the N:SPY ETF in my Daily Trade Ideas which includes many, many more charts and setups. Subscribe to my nightly Daily Trade Ideas on the right to see the rest of this...

The gold miners’ stocks have soared this year as investors flock back into this long-abandoned sector. Many traders wonder if these eye-popping gains are merely the product of fleeting sentiment...

The markets closed flat on options expiration Friday. In the last week the S&P 500 gained over 100 points through Wednesday, and paused on Thursday and Friday. This pattern is known as bullish...

Preferred stock ETFs were once considered a tiny corner of the alternative income marketplace that had dodged the bullet of credit contraction. High yield mainstays like junk bonds, master limited...

The market is showing some very interesting pattern set-ups on the daily index charts. The oscillators on the attempted pullback on those daily charts are holding nicely with many of the bear market...

Summary: Equities followed through on last week's reversal, gaining 3-4%. Importantly, the rally came on unusually positive breadth: this has a strong propensity to push equity prices higher in the...

We are approaching the end of February and within a month, the end of the first quarter. So we continue from where we left of about a month ago. At that time, we focused on the US stock market breadth...

When a country’s central bank reduces its interests rates below zero (i.e., “goes negative”), the action should boost the relative appeal of stock assets. That is the theory....

Gold prices soared last week when market pricing went to extremes, with bond prices indicating that there was next to no chance of a rate hike in the next twelve months. We have covered the cause of...

In this article dated 2/10/16, I highlighted an example of one way to play volatility using options on SPDR S&P 500 (N:SPY). This is an update to that article and is intended simply to educate...

Many investors have been caught off guard this year with the sharp drop in stocks combined with a rush to safety in traditional defensive asset classes. This week we will be reviewing a trio of...