ETF Analysis & Opinion

Thankfully, Thanksgiving raised a false alarm in the retail space. The sloth during the Thanksgiving weekend was finally made up and the U.S. holiday season turned out much stronger than the...

Key Points:Find an ETF that matches your anticipated trade duration Avoid leveraged ETFs for longer term plays Determine if you need a Brent or WTI ETF Personally, when I think the market is bottoming...

Those words have not been heard in over 14 months. While the S&P 500 has made something like 800 new all-time highs and the Nasdaq 100 keeps marching towards the 2000 top, the Russell 2000 has...

VIX Derivative UVXY is Acting Relatively Strong. Is it Sending a Message About the Underlying Health of the SPX Heading into 2015?The ProShares Ultra VIX Short-Term Fut ETF (ARCA:UVXY)) continues to...

For the U.S. economy, 2014 has been a banner year but the exact reverse has been true for most of the developed foreign economies. The Euro zone and Japan had a particularly rough ride. Apart from...

The stock market across the globe has given mixed performances in 2014. While the Dow Jones Industrial Average crossed the 18,000 mark for the first time in mid December and the S&P 500 is on the...

Fifth Third, (NASDAQ:FITB) Fifth Third, FITB, bounced off of a bottom in October and is back at resistance. The latest move takes it over the 200 day SMA and a push higher could change the...

Trend Model signal summary Trend Model signal: Risk-on Trading model: Bullish The Trend Model is an asset allocation model used by my inner investor. The trading component of the Trend Model keys on...

Eurozone’s celebration of the end of a prolonged recession last year was really short-lived as the region again got itself entrapped in a slowdown and deflation worries from mid 2014. Most of...

The global ETF industry has grown rapidly this year hitting a record of $2.76 trillion at the end of November with 1,659 products from 68 providers on three exchanges, as per the data from ETFGI. It...

An article on ZeroHedge notes that in 2014, bonds outperformed stocks. This is another sign of deflation -- though it should be noted that both bonds AND stocks were positive on the year, which is not...

U.S. stocks found support once again last week and rallied on strong volume. Of course, the main catalyst was the FOMC policy statement on Wednesday that maintained its dovish language with a pledge...

In March 2009, both the Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (ARCA:DIA) and the S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE ARCA: SPDR S&P 500 (ARCA:SPY)) bottomed out, a culmination of the infamous 2007/2008...

While there are numerous reasons for recent volatility in asset prices, the market has primarily focused on concerns related to economic weakness in Europe, the possibility of a widespread Ebola...