ETF Analysis & Opinion

Recent weakness in the European Financials ETF (NASDAQ:EUFN) was punctuated by today's (Thursday's) gap down and close below the 50 day MA, as shown on the following 1-year Daily chart. All 3...

Help me Obi Wan Kenobi — you’re my only hope.” - Princess Leia in Star WarsWith the ominous divergence between small caps and large caps, a large-cap breakout was perhaps “the...

After a strong rebound last year, the housing sector has been struggling since frigid weather conditions and lower demand for homes raised concerns in the space from the beginning of the year. Major...

SPDR Gold Trust (ARCA:GLD) (gold etf) near term outlook:Long held, bigger picture view of eventual declines back to the June /Dec 2013 lows at 114.40/70 ($1180/85 in gold), "ideally" in the...

Monitoring purposes SPX: Sold S&P 500 on 4/1/14 at 1885.52 = gain 1.78%; Long SPX on 3/26/14 at 1852.56.Monitoring purposes GOLD: Gold ETF SPDR Gold Trust (ARCA:GLD) long at 173.59 on 9/21/11 Long...

Back at the end of February I wrote this article on the iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Fund (ARCA:TLT), outlining a short term bullish move in this back to $111-115 level (then it was trading at...

From a technical view, the ETF is trading above a key support level set at $15.90.Regarding technical indicators, the daily Relative Strength Index (RSI) is above its neutrality area.On a relative...

From a technical view, the ETF has broken below a key rising trend line which has been in place since August 2013. Regarding technical indicators, the daily Relative Strength Index (RSI) is reversing...

Dividend-focused ETFs have been gaining immense popularity and are riding higher this month on investors’ drive for higher income. This is especially true as interest rates remain at lower...

The following 11 1-Year Daily charts show the 9 Major Sectors, plus Housing and Biotech. You can see that Technology (SPDR Select Sector - Technology (NYSE:XLK)), Industrials (Industrial Sector SPDR...

Chief market technician at MKM Partners, Jonathan Krinsky, is the latest commentator to add perspective on the trouble with U.S. small-cap stocks. He noted that roughly 80% of large-cap S&P 500...

Since early 2012, the S&P 500 ETF, (ARCA:SPY), has had a great run against the yen ETF, RYDEX CurrencyShares Japanese Yen (ARCA:FXY). But where it sits right now seems to be giving conflicting...

What Investments Have a Low Correlation to Stocks?If we are concerned about the possibility of a stock market correction or sideways malaise, where do we go to keep our heads above the inflationary...

Yesterday morning's report on April Retail Sales was a huge disappointment, but the Standard and Poor's (S&P 500) opened fractionally higher and rose to its modest 0.29% intraday high a little...