ETF Analysis & Opinion

It might be, but not just because it is the 200 day Simple Moving Average. The rhetoric picked up with the Russell 2000 ETF, (ARCA:IWM), closing below this key level for the first time since...

When U.S. stocks have struggled in 2014, the pattern has had a familiar ring to it. Small-caps have fallen harder than large-caps. Growth-oriented equities have dropped more precipitously than...

• Less risky portfolios gave higher returns• Corporate & long govt. • bonds outperformed equities• Longer-dated Eurozone bonds were the star of the show By Teis Knuthsen In...

From a technical view, the ETF has bounced off a key support area set around 32.70 (horizontal support + lower Bollinger Band+ 76.4% Fibonacci retracement). Regarding technical indicators, the daily...

European banks will be facing a tough stress test this year to prove their endurance in the bond, property and stock market downturn as well as currency crisis in Central and Eastern Europe. Under...

Big U.S. oil companies like Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM), Chevron (NYSE:CVX) and ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP) reported their results last week for the first quarter. While COP fueled a rally in the broad...

SPDR S&P 500 (ARCA:SPY) - on a buy signal.  Some conflicting indications on the higher time frame though.  Trend is still strong.SPDR DJ Industrial Average (ARCA:DIA) - daily...

Small- and micro-cap stocks have had a good run lately, but the bullish momentum is now fading. In the long run, finance theory tells us that these corners of the equity market will generate a risk...

Increasingly, clients and prospective clients have been asking me about “liquid alternatives.” On the one hand, I like the thinking behind an inquiry where the liquidity of an investment...

From 2001 to 2011, the spot Gold commodity thrilled gold bugs with nearly an 800% gain over the course of a decade-long bull run.Traders and investors of SPDR Gold Trust (ARCA:GLD), a popular ETF that...

This chart shows the year-to-date performance of gold vs gold stocks. We see that gold stocks of all kinds have outperformed gold itself. The Market Vectors Gold Miners fund (ARCA:GDX) is an ETF of...

In spite of the big bounce over the past couple of weeks, Biotech (iShares Nasdaq Biotech (NASDAQ:IBB)) – it seems to your humble host – has shot its wad. I’ve tinted the zone I...

The ETF has reached our stop loss which was set at $51.00. Performance: -3.49%.Trading strategy:Stop activated at $51.00.