ETF Analysis & Opinion

For months, I have been discussing the likely implications of deteriorating market breadth. For instance, fewer and fewer components are holding up the Dow, the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ. Only a...

Investors were treated to the news this month that PayPal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) would be spun off from Ebay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY) to create a massive $45 billion stand alone company. The fervor...

Income investors are often obsessed with the search for yield despite the typical conservative nature of their demographic. The half decade of zero returns in safe assets such as CDs and savings...

DIA on Monday Tagged the Bottom of the Price Channel It Started in Early 2012 (Pink) On Monday, ARCA:DIA bounced off the bottom of the price channel (pink on chart) that it started in early 2012. It...

IWM Megaphone in Megaphone Scenarios ARCA:IWM has a mandatory retrace to its pink topping megaphone VWAP at 112 to carry out, and it will probably continue through that level to the pink megaphone...

If we look at the four ETFs that track major stock-market indices -- (ARCA:DIA), (ARCA:SPY), (ARCA:IWM) and (NASDAQ:QQQ) -- we find that three are either flirting with or already are below their...

T2108 Status: 28.7%T2107 Status: 35.2%VIX Status: 13.4General (Short-term) Trading Call: NeutralActive T2108 periods: Day #192 over 20% (overperiod), Day #3 under 30%, Day #7 under 40%, Day #47 under...

According to Bloomberg data, the modest year-to-date increase in the S&P 500 is attributable to health care and retail alone. Worse yet, the two industry segments trade at a 20% premium to the...

The Shanghai Composite Index (SSEC) plunged 8.5% yesterday, to start trading for the week. The ripple effects were wide and far-reaching even as arguments continue floating that the collapse in...

Several authors have pointed out the difficulties in fashioning trades to take advantage of the movement in oil prices (for a recent example, see “Is Gasoline The Smart Oil Play? UGA Vs....

I last wrote about the Fed Monetary Stimulus "Canaries" in my post of December 17, 2014. As a reminder, I chose six of them (ETFs) in order to determine their relative strength/weakness against their...

Even with many of the global issues pushed off the front page, eager bulls found yet another reason to keep the troops in the barracks. The only newsworthy items are related to corporate earnings...

It could pay to be aware of these surroundings.(1) – NASDAQ Composite Index is back at 2000 highs, with little wiggle room at the top of this rising wedge pattern (2) – Google...

A while back I wrote about the potential for crude oil to decline in price – based on nothing but daily and weekly Elliott Wave counts. As this is an approach that may or may not inspire a lot...