ETF Analysis & Opinion

Thursday's headlines from both Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) and Fed Chair Yellen could easily have cratered the miners. But bids emerged into weakness in both instances, which represents a positive profile...

When it comes to Bio Tech ETFs, performance over the past year has varied greatly. The chart below looks at iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology (NASDAQ:IBB) and SPDR S&P Biotech (NYSE:XBI), both Biotech...

Inflation is a scary word, as it generally presages effects like rising interest rates, higher costs of living, and climbing commodity prices. This has been one of the expected outcomes from the...

I have received a fair amount of feedback, mostly from technicians and chartists, on my view that the idea that downside risk on stock prices is limited and this is not the beginning of a major bear...

The iShares MSCI Germany (NYSE:EWG) gapped down Tuesday morning, continuing its negative reaction to the fallout from the VW emissions deception, which first broke on Friday and exploded when markets...

Monitoring purposes S&P 500: long SPX on 9/22/15 at 1942.74.Monitoring purposes Gold: Flat Long Term Trend monitor purposes: Flat Today the 5 day average of the TRIN closed at 1.80. The bottom...

The shot was heard around the world of biotech yesterday: The reaction was immediate and sharp for iShares NASDAQ Biotechnology Fund (NASDAQ:IBB) as it lost 4.6% on the day on trading volume nearly 3x...

“Buy on the cannons, sell on the trumpets.” Old French Proverb Lots of chop today this Monday that saw overnight futures down, then up, and once market opened they continued higher before...

A horrible market environment exists when there are have two opposing forces battling it out, each with a great weapon on their side. The bulls have a very powerful weapon in the form of fear. The...

This article picks up where this article left off. Now let’s look at one example way to “prepare for the worst”.QQQ Out-of-the-Money Directional Butterfly Now in all candor I find...

It is Monday morning and the stock market is higher and that’s fine with me. I like higher stock prices. In fact, given the recent oversold readings from some indicators there is a chance that...

Last week’s no-hike Fed decision raises questions about the outlook for the US economy, but another delay in tightening monetary policy revived demand for interest-rate sensitive assets. US real...

Here are the Rest of the Top 10:Alcoa (NYSE:AA) Alcoa has had a long down trend since topping at the end of 2014. The market low in August may have represented as significant bottom for the stock...

Gold mining returns have been awful over the last 3 and 12 months Source: Short Side of Long I’ve been getting a few emails with requests to write about the Precious Metals sector. Coming into...