ETF Analysis & Opinion

T2108 Status: 44.8%T2107 Status: 24.5%VIX Status: 19.5General (Short-term) Trading Call: Bullish (upside target of 1996 on the S&P 500 before overbought conditions finally occur again. Active...

About a year ago, I was meeting a client at a restaurant in Marina Del Rey, California. The traffic had been mild by Los Angeles County standards, so I arrived in the area early. I stopped in a local...

Readers of Scott’s Investments know I am a proponent of do-it-yourself investing solutions. I am also a big fan of Alpha Architect, so I was excited when I was asked to review a book which...

The SPDR S&P Biotech (NYSE:XBI) chart suggests that the scam of buying up old drugs to raise their prices 7000% has about run its course. XBI is working its way to the intersection of the bottom...

Just try and follow the bouncing ball… What a week in the financial markets! If you didn’t like the 1% move in one direction, you just waited a few hours for it to reverse to the...

Uncertainty about the health of the global economy led investors to flee U.S. equities during Q3, primarily driven by worries about China's growth prospects and the Federal Reserve’s decision to...

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and biotech have been the S&P 500’s leaders for years, so that's what you should be keeping an eye on. The recent weakness in Apple—or maybe better said the...

Technical Outlook:S&P 500 on Friday sold off hard at the open, but traders managed to buy the dip and turn -1.5% loss into a +1.4% gain. The reversal on Friday, was one of the biggest reversals...

Many international markets have struggled over the last few years, with China being the most recent.But amidst all that, the Japanese market has quietly put up some solid numbers. In fact, the Nikkei...

Last week’s review of the macro market indicators suggested as the market closed out the the quarter and moved into October that the Equity markets still looked weak. Elsewhere looked for gold...

Robeco’s Lukas Daalder has a bit of an issue with rolling-performance graphics. Bashing a recent chart of 1-year price returns on these pages that profiled ETF proxies for the major asset...

All of the focus this morning will be on the Nonfarm Payroll report. It will show more jobs added, maybe a downtick in the unemployment rate and perhaps a small change in hourly earnings. Plotted on a...

Sometimes it can be useful to step back from focusing on the specifics of a single market to think about the relative performance of sectors globally and how macro conditions affect each region. In a...

Back in April of this year, I was watching the ETF for US Real Estate, iShares US Real Estate (NYSE:IYR) to either push above 83.56 for 85.5 target or below 76.36 for 69.59 target. Well, I’m...