ETF Analysis & Opinion

A significant cross section of the investment community has been conditioned to benchmark their large-cap ETF exposure against the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (ARCA:SPY). After all, this market bell weather...

The US market has had a great 6 year run higher. Many prognosticators and professional talkers are taking this anniversary as a time to ‘take some off the table’. Do you remember growing...

Special Weekly Update For gold And silver featuring (NYSE:JNUG), (NYSE:NUGT) And (ARCA:UCO)Below you may find the video

After a smooth ride last year, the U.S. stock market is experiencing a shaky 2015 due to a mountain of woes and heightened volatility. This is especially true given that a surging US dollar is making...

These are my thoughts on the SPY ETF“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” (Mary...

After a solid start to the year—and a torrid 2014—REITs have really stumbled of late. With bond yields rebounding off of their lows and Fed Chair Janet Yellen slowly moving in the...

It’s pretty easy to understand the appeal of indexing, particularly after a year like 2014. Less than one out of five active mutual fund managers beat their respective benchmark last year. And...

ES is now massing at the top of its latest falling wedge. Prices tend to break out upwards soon after you see this kind of massing.In a perfect world, ES would complete this mass as a little interior...

The (ARCA:SPY) finally closed under the standard deviation of 2 Bollinger Bands® for the first time in 2015. Does that make it an automatic buy? Hell no. But it does bear watching for other...

ES and (ARCA:SPY) have both fallen through their lower Bollinger Bands.There’s the same set of formations on the short-term charts as we saw during the dip of December 5th through December 16th...

These are my thoughts on the SPY ETF“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” Walt Disney The weakness continued yesterday on schedule and now we are near...

ES has now added a falling wedge (gray on chart) to its falling megaphone (bright blue) and likely megaphone bottom patterns within a collection of megaphones and interior megaphones. The nice thing...

These are my thoughts on the SPY ETF“Others believing in you is nice but worthless if not matched by your own thought.” (Scott Moore) Monday was pretty quiet as the selling from Friday was...

iShares MSCI Turkey ETF (ARCA:TUR) – the sole ETF focusing on Turkey – saw a terrible start to the year and is in fact the worst performing ETF in the emerging equities space this year....