ETF Analysis & Opinion

San Francisco-based iShares, the market leader in ETFs, is enjoying dominance in a variety of asset classes, sectors and industries. Managed by BlackRock Group, the issuer continues to hit the...

One of the big beneficiaries of the sabre-rattling lately has been the agricultural sector, as illustrated by the surge in the PowerShares DB Agriculture Fund, (DBA). It’s mashed right up...

There is money to be made on the Russian incursion into Crimea, inside Ukraine. This is how you trade and profit from it. First, understand that the media will continue to talk about the situation,...

I have no idea what the Mexican economy encompasses, but whatever it is they make down there, it’s not going well. I remain cheerfully short.

Risk taking seems to be off the table today as everyone watches the potential conflict developing in the Ukraine. All of the major stock indexes such as the S&P 500 Index, NASDAQ Composite,...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and major U.S. stock indexes took a wild ride on Friday The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIA) and other major U.S. stock indexes took a wild ride on Friday...

At the close of trade on Thursday, a sell signal was generated from the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM). This signal is a result of smoothed Twitter sentiment confirming the downtrend in EEM...

Jobless claims have been rising. Earnings growth has been decelerating. Revenue growth has been stalling. And mortgage applications dipped to the lowest level in two decades. Is it possible that...

Nothing much has really changed this week.  Price seems to  be digesting through time rather than price. SPY - blah.  Nothing much happening here.  Had a long trigger yesterday...

From a technical view, the ETF has pushed below a rising trend line drawn from the bottom of January 2012 and is capped by a key bearish trend line which maintains downward pressure. Regarding...

One of the few bright spots for me yesterday (besides, ahem, Tesla (TSLA)) is my short in Mexico – shown below. The iShares MSCI - Mexico ETF, (EWW) has been breaking from its symetric triangle...

Wednesday’s trading session demonstrated how the lunchtime crowd boosts advances by stocks.On Wednesday, we saw how important those investors are, who check in on the stock market before, during...

SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) Near-Term OutlookIn the Feb 11th email, said that further upside was favored ahead and the market has indeed surged since, reaching a high at 129.53 on Feb 25th. However, lots of...

The commodity ETF space had seen some all-stars to start the year thanks mainly to soft stock markets and the excessive under valuation in the natural resource world. Some metals like gold and silver...