ETF Analysis & Opinion

Myth Busters – Dividend Stocks Are SafeIn recent years, many investors have been attracted to the “safety” and “wealth-building” appeal of dividend stocks. Therefore, it...

Monitoring purposes SPX: Short SPX on 2/8/16 at 1853.44.Monitoring purposes Gold: Neutral Long Term Trend monitor purposes: Short SPX on 1/13/16 at 1890.28 The red vertical lines on the chart above...

Summary Energy Transfer Equity ETE (N:ETE) took a huge hit on Monday-- down by 41%. There are no convincing reasons for the carnage. ETE Stock trades at Bargain Valuation today. Bottom line: Medium...

Choppy trading session yesterday that saw the market gap lower but spend the rest of the day chopping around and ultimately recovering the day's losses. Futures have rallied strong overnight as...

Below are yesterday’s closing prices … followed by some key prices tied to global stocks.US Stocks:Measured by market capitalization-SPDR S&P 500 ETF (N:SPY): Critical Support:...

The last Housing Market Review covered data released in December, 2015. At the time, I saw the market coiling like a spring. Instead of springing forth, housing market stocks are in big retreat....

Headlines continue to dominate the trading landscape, perpetuating a news-driven trader’s market rather than allowing a healthier valuation-driven investor’s market to return to favor....

The Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners (N:GDXJ) are once again taking center stage as the go to place to be in 2016. As I write this the Dow is down close to 400 points again on high volume and the...

The crowd piled into investment-grade bonds last week as economic worries triggered an exodus out of risky assets. Reviewing the major asset classes for the week just passed through an ETF lens...

Summary: The NASDAQ 100 (NDX) undercut its January low this past week, and Friday's sell-off was extreme enough that it is unlikely to mark the low. Negative investor sentiment seems to be feeding on...

T2108 Status: 26.8%T2107 Status: 16.2%VIX Status: 23.4General (Short-term) Trading Call: bullishActive T2108 periods: Day #6 over 20% (overperiod), Day #24 under 30% (underperiod), Day #40 under 40%,...

Although I have a son and daughter at the tail-end of the much-maligned demographic group, Millennials (current age 18 to 33), they’re still a bit of a mystery to me.The common perception of...

Some stats about the current rally in the gold miners (Market Vectors Gold Miners (N:GDX)):+37.50% in 13 trading sessions GDX has gone from 3 sessions dipping below the lower 2-std. deviation...

For too many people the model is basically, “The stock market goes up I make money, the stock market goes down I lose money.” As I have already demonstrated, there are ways to make money...