ETF Analysis & Opinion

Last week’s review of the macro market indicators suggested, heading into the March Options Expiration week that the equity markets were a bit mixed, mostly better looking to the...

We all know what happened with yesterdays Fed statement(s) by now and have had time to sit back and try and make sense of not only what was literally said but how to interpret words and charts going...

“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.” Tom KrauseA great day with a capital G.Stocks broke out en masse after the Fed news and continued...

A large number of stocks in the Dow Jones 30 Average have moved lower since the Federal Reserve ended its quantitative easing (QE) program in late October. Telecom giants AT&T (NYSE:T) and Verizon...

Some feel the Fed has had a little bit to do with where the price of the S&P 500 is right now. Do you agree? Right now the S&P 500 is in a tricky spot for both the bulls and bears. The...

I’m breaking from my traditional analysis of a specific segment of the market to focus on a more comprehensive overview using several charts. Sometimes it’s nice to step away from...

The year has turned out to be pretty good for the European ETF industry, as the very first month saw record inflows into European ETFs. Investors were seen to be shifting their assets from U.S. to...

Sometimes just knowing what direction things are moving is enough. You do not need to know all the bumps along the way, just if there is a boulder or disabled car in the road ahead of you that would...

Historically, when the U.S. dollar surges, forward S&P 500 earnings plummet. In the same vein, the last two times that the world’s reserve currency skyrocketed, the U.S. economy slipped into...

I applied Fibonacci extension levels to the 2002 lows and 2011 highs in Mid Caps (NYSE:MDY). The 161% Fibonacci extension level looked to create some resistance, as Mid Caps chopped around this level...

Trend Model signal summaryTrend Model signal: Risk-on Trading model: Bullish The Trend Model is an asset allocation model which applies trend following principles based on the inputs of global stock...

(NYSE:JNUG) WEEKLY MOVING AVERAGES The contract closed at 16.76. The market closing below the 9 day MA (29.25) is confirmation that the trend momentum is bearish. A close above the 9 MA would negate...

With the U.S. equity bull market more than six years old, stocks if not expensive are not cheaply valued either. With every new high hit by the U.S. equity market indices, there is also widespread...

In 2009 I shared my big picture analysis, investment forecast and strategy in a book called “New World Order Economics – What you can do to protect yourself”. In January 2009 I...