ETF Analysis & Opinion

On Friday, all markets were down across the board, N:SPY itself was down over 1% continue the trend downwards from Thursday. This selling has caused an oversold and Piker Buy signal in SPY. The last...

Forensic accountant John Del Vecchio likes to joke that he knows “where the bodies are buried” in the financial statements. In his line of work, you have to. John is a professional short...

**These are my thoughts on the N:SPY ETF in my Daily Trade Ideas which includes many, many more charts and setups.**“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to...

Gold stocks have suffered heavy collateral damage following the Federal Reserve’s hawkish surprise late last month, which ignited enormous gold-futures selling by American speculators. This...

The risk budget this month is unchanged. For the moderate risk investor, the allocation between risk assets and bonds remains at a defensive 40/60 versus the benchmark of 60/40.Credit spreads narrowed...

Summary: It's true that corporations buying their own shares (buybacks) represents a large source of demand for equities and have helped push asset prices higher.But much of what is believed about...

Last week’s review of the macro market indicators suggested heading into the new week that the equity indexes looked strong and ready to challenge the all-time highs.Elsewhere looked for gold...

Last week’s review of the macro market indicators suggested heading into the new week that the equity indexes looked strong and ready to challenge the all-time highs. Elsewhere looked for gold...

T2108 Status: 43.5%T2107 Status: 27.7%VIX Status: 18.4General (Short-term) Trading Call: bearishActive T2108 periods: Day #29 over 20%, Day #28 over 30%, Day #28 over 40% (overperiod), Day #1 below...

Some things go unnoticed. For example, the S&P 500 rallied 13% off its closing lows (1867) set in late August. Lost in the shuffle? The popular benchmark has yet to revisit its closing highs...

Is the Hong Kong market a bargain or losing its edge? With the Hang Seng Index trading at its cheapest valuation in 10 years – close to the valuations of Russia’s and Pakistan’s...

Monitoring purposes SPX: long SPX on 11/2/15 at 2104.05 Monitoring purposes Gold: Flat Long-Term Trend monitor purposes: Flat The chart above is the monthly SPY. The chart pattern that formed form...

T2108 Status: 55.7%T2107 Status: 31.9%VIX Status: 15.3General (Short-term) Trading Call: slightly bearishActive T2108 periods: Day #27 over 20%, Day #26 over 30%, Day #26 over 40%, Day #24 over 50%...

Another day light on economic news US equity markets had a mixed session, with Apple (O:AAPL)'s -3.15% loss the main attention grabber. Our benchmark S&P 500 spent the day in a relatively narrow...