ETF Analysis & Opinion

US stocks reclaimed the top spot in last week’s performance race for the major assets classes, based on a set of proxy ETFs. The Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (N:VTI) gained 1.7% for the five...

Trend Model signal summary Trend Model signal: Neutral Trading model: BullishThe Trend Model is an asset allocation model which applies trend following principles based on the inputs of global stock...

Once a Major Megaphone Starts, the Price Never Wants to Leave IWM Started its Topping Megaphone in Late November 2013 N:IWM began forming a megaphone top across roughly 112.50 in late November 2013....

I wanted to offer up a simple metaphor for where I think the market is by way of a traffic light. In each of the five charts below:+ the green tint represents the level which, should the price drop...

Investors that were fortunate to buy into the hole in either August or September have now been rewarded with a double digit gain on most broad-based indices. What began with some skepticism as just a...

In retrospect, it was a clear sign of a market top…A few years ago, I was waiting to speak as an energy specialist was wrapping up his presentation. He closed with a recommendation of...

T2108 Status: 65.6%T2107 Status: 32.9%VIX Status: 14.5General (Short-term) Trading Call: neutral, changed from mildly bearish – see belowActive T2108 periods: Day #16 over 20%, Day #15 over 30%,...

A weekly excerpt from the Macro Review analysis on 10 markets and two timeframes. Last week’s review of the macro market indicators suggested that with October Options Expiration behind the...

Per Thomson Reuters data this week, with 172 companies having reported Q3 ’15 earnings, the EPS beat rate is strong at 70%, while the revenue beat rate remains tepid at 41%.The stat that jumped...

We have a little more Volkswagen (DE:VOWG) info as a follow-up from our trip to Europe.First, let me summarize our investment view. We don’t like VW and would not own it if we were in the...

Consumer discretionary stocks have strengthened their lead among the major US equity sectors this month, based on trailing one-year total return data for a set of ETF proxies. After bumping healthcare...

T2108 Status: 59.6%T2107 Status: 30.0%VIX Status: 16.7General (Short-term) Trading Call: MILDLY bearishActive T2108 periods: Day #14 over 20%, Day #13 over 30%, Day #13 over 40%, Day #11 over 50%, Day...

It was a pretty nasty day on Wall Street on Wednesday. A lot of our stocks did pretty well – at least several of them did. We’ll take a look at those and some of the shorts that did...

Trying to pick the cycle low in oil via the United States Oil ETF (N:USO)? Just a little more patience please. RSI is just now getting oversold, so we're close.