ETF Analysis & Opinion

Chart 1: Russell 2000 has under-performed S&P 500 throughout 2014 Regular readers of the blog would know the reasons as to why I do not have any investment in US equities. The bull market is very...

Stocks Entering Period of Seasonal Strength Today: Diageo plc (ADR), (NYSE:DEO) Rowan Companies, (NYSE:RDC) Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) Occidental Petroleum, (NYSE:OXY) The...

The year 2015 has already seen many market mood swings. Heightened volatility and flight to safety suggest that investors are nervous about the prospects for global economic growth this year. A weak...

These are my thoughts on the SPY ETF in my Daily Trade Ideas.“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo...

In a perfect intermediate-term set-up, I would like to see the Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (ARCA:GDX) pull back into the 20.60 area prior to embarking on a new up-leg. That said, when is anything...

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

The Asset Allocation chart we showed in Step 1 of this series (here) engendered considerable valuable discussion. While I addressed all issues raised in that area, I want to say here, as well, that...

The Direxion Daily Energy Bull 3x Shares (NYSE:ERX)) opened January 21st, 2015 has reached our new stop-loss, closing our long position at 54.10. Perf: +3.54%.

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 another holiday...

The topic of energy stocks and crude oil prices has reached epic proportions on social media and financial news outlets. I have seen a myriad of “experts” pointing to oil prices plunging...

T2108 Status: 51.2%T2107 Status: 47.1%VIX Status: 16.4 (down 13%)General (Short-term) Trading Call: BullishActive T2108 periods: Day #65 over 20%, Day #24 above 30%, Day #4 over 40%, day #1 over 50%...

iBillionaire—the creators of the index backing the Direxion iBillionaire Index ETF (NYSEArca: IBLN)—are at again, launching a new index that tracks the dividend stocks being bought by...

The S&P 500 soared 29.6% and 11.4% in 2013 and 2014 respectively, pushing the broad market benchmark to unimaginable heights. Net inflows into U.S. stock funds, including ETFs, also set records....

The triple-bearish-on-gold-miners ETF, symbol (NYSE:DUST), has a rather interesting property of bouncing hard off the trendline shown below. If this is true, it would suggest miners are in for some...