ETF Analysis & Opinion

Regular readers might remember our timely calls on the stock, coming into the last week of August: here, here and here.In all three of these posts we pretty much noted a similar theme: a major S&P...

Three months ago, I served up a list of reasons for lowering one’s exposure to riskier assets. I discussed weakness in market internals where fewer and fewer corporate components of the Dow and...

Monitoring purposes SPX: long SPX on 9/22/15 at 1942.74. Monitoring purposes Gold: Flat Long-Term Trend monitor purposes: Flat The bottom window in the above chart is the SPY)/TRIN ratio, which...

After a nasty selloff in late August, stocks temporarily gave investors a bit of hope (a dangerous emotion in trading) by rallying higher in the first half of September, but the bullish enthusiasm was...

The Healthcare sector has been one of the strongest performers during the bull market that began in 2009. It provided consistent relative outperformance while also holding the title as a reliable...

“The average man doesn’t wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something...

Here is an advance preview of the monthly moving averages we track after the close of the last business day of the month. At this point, before the open on the last day of the month, all three S&P...

T2108 Status: 13.2% (drop from 21.1%)T2107 Status: 16.6%VIX Status: 27.6 (an increase of 17.0%)General (Short-term) Trading Call: Bullish (upside target of 1996 on the S&P 500 before overbought...

“Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.” Spike Milligan Another day, another gap and today’s gap lower was just the start of what...

I reported on the weekend that my inner trader got caught in a "low conviction long trade" (see A choppy bottom). The sell-off on Monday signaled that the market seems poised for a test of the August...

American Electric Power Company (NYSE:AEP) American Electric Power has moved in a sideways range for most of 2015 until breaking it to the upside in late August as the broad market fell. It pulled...

Value investors on the lookout for bargains have recently been eyeing up the battered corner of emerging market equities. At some point the selling will lay the foundation for a solid rebound. Judging...

REITs are suddenly no longer the hottest property on the block.A spectacular six-year run sent the MSCI US REIT Index (RMZ) soaring by nearly 350% including dividends. In 2014, the index jumped by 30%...

The investment world is swirling with speculation and argument about whether the current S&P 500 correction will end with a return to gains, or descend into a Bear market. As Jim Cramer said...