ETF Analysis & Opinion

Technical Outlook:Quiet day of trading yesterday as SPX consolidated for a second straight day. Slight uptick in volume from the day prior, but once again, extremely low overall. N:SPY just a shade...

Sentiment among homebuilders has been riding high. This month, the sentiment of homebuilders reached heights last seen during the bubble days. Builders have backed up this optimism with housing starts...

The WSJ recently featured an article about the silver lining in Chinese growth. Even though the GDP growth rate had fallen below 7% to 6.9%, there was evidence of rebalancing away from the...

Monitoring purposes SPX: Sold on 10/5/15 at 1987.05; gain 2.28%. long SPX on 9/22/15 at 1942.74.Monitoring purposes GOLD: Flat Long Term Trend monitor purposes: Flat The chart above is the two hour...

*These are my thoughts on the N:SPY ETF in my Daily Trade Ideas which includes many, many more charts and setups.** “Life is simple but if you don't put anything into it, you won't get anything...

HYG Crash Set-Up Started with a Confirmed Price Channel that Broke Out Downwards N:HYG has the same crash set-up on its chart as N:SPY did for the dot-com crash. The set-up starts with a confirmed...

Chinese economic numbers have about as much credibility as Noah Cross, the villain in the movie Chinatown. The character is based upon​ ​the real-life first superintendent of the Los...

The market was little changed Tuesday based on the S&P 500. But a look at both the NASDAQ and Russell indicates that the S&P 500 masked a lot of the day's weakness.The tendency, as we've seen...

Exactly 10 years ago, the Housing Market Index (HMI) hit 68. The HMI fell relatively quickly from there as the bursting of the housing bubble began in earnest. This month, the HMI hit 64, essentially...

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...

Surely one of the most incredible, and oftentimes frustrating tendency in the stock market is for the major indices to rally in the face of so much adversity. Just when it appears that the world is...

T2108 Status: 65.4%T2107 Status: 30.9%VIX Status: 15.1General (Short-term) Trading Call: Neutral (target of 1996 on the S&P 500 occurred ahead of overbought conditions. Active T2108 periods: Day...

Major U.S. equity indexes are back to clear technical resistance. As a result, tail risk is near all-time highs. People are frantically pointing out to a record levels of put buying in the midst of a...

The PowerShares QQQ Trust Series 1 (O:QQQ) is based on the NASDAQ-100 Index, which measures the 100 largest non-financial stocks currently trading on the NASDAQ exchange. Whether by design or...