ETF Analysis & Opinion

Important Week For SectorThe energy sector ETF (ARCA:XLE) dropped 28% from its June 2014 high to the 2015 low. Last week, XLE completed the third and last step needed for a trend change. The higher...

The unusually wide spread at the outer edges for the trailing performances of the major asset classes via our standard set of ETF proxies has been squeezed a bit. The compression is due mostly to...

Each year traders try to navigate their way through the financial market and turn a profit. But this is difficult.The stock market provides market participants with several opportunities each. With...

Examine 138 REITs for price trend up or down 6 simple binary factors establish trend 21 in up trend, and 13 outperform REIT index. These 21 REITs out of 138 in the Reuters DataLink database are in up...

“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” Napolean Hill Friday was pretty tough to sit through unless you’re in the best...

A weekly excerpt from the Macro Review analysis sent to subscribers on 10 markets and two timeframes.Last week’s review of the macro market indicators suggested, heading into April Options...

Risk management has become a buzz word in the investment business with little real world application over the last several years. The need for stop losses, hedging, strategic asset allocation, and...

In an era of rock-bottom interest rates, retirement has become a lavish idea for many investors across the developed world. Earlier, people used to follow a rule of thumb for asset allocation between...

Many stocks have a rhythm to them. They move in repeated patterns over and over…..until they don’t any more. When you find one that exhibits that kind of price behavior it's worth noting...

Monitoring purposes S&P 500; Flat. Monitoring purposes Gold: Short (ARCA:GDX) on 4/7/15 at 19.22; stop 20.26. Long-Term Trend monitor purposes: Flat Timers Digest ranked the Ord Oracle...

Healthcare stocks remain the top performers among the major equity sectors, based on the trailing 252-trading-day (1 year) period through April 14 via a set of ETF proxies. Meanwhile, energy shares...

PowerShares DB Commodity Tracking ETF (ARCA:DBC) seeks to track changes in the level of the DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess Return™. The commodities tracked are Light Sweet...

There may seem to be a bewildering array of bond fund types. This survey of key bond types may help you chose which if any are appropriate for your particular circumstances and portfolio.We looked at...

Near the end of December last year, Sterne Agee’s chief market technician Carter Braxton Worth put together this nifty little “Christmas Tree” showing how “the market”...