ETF Analysis & Opinion

For the second week in a row, investors were overall net redeemers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs), withdrawing $10.2 billion for Refinitiv Lipper’s fund-flows...

Yesterday was the first time that the SPY opened lower than the prior day’s low since July 24th. The same is true for the QQQ. Grandpa Russell did it just last week, but not since July 7th prior...

The coronavirus blowback and the crowd’s ongoing preference for high-flying growth investments aren’t doing any favors for value investing strategies. Perhaps the chaos of 2020 is laying...

Since early spring, broader equity markets in the US have been charging ahead. On Aug. 18, the S&P 500 index closed at 3,389.78, above its previous peak of 3,386.15 in February. So far in the...

With so much attention being paid to Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) reaching a valuation of $2 trillion, I decided to see if AAPL’s market cap would make it into the IMF’s list of the...

Yesterday was a day of small losses but no real damage to the rallies. With the S&P 500 joining the NASDAQ in erasing COVID losses, everyone is waiting for sellers to sweep in and kill this rally...

Leveraged ETFs offer the potential for amplified gains, albeit at an increased risk.Still, for short-term investors, leveraged ETFs (LETF) can be appealing. The Direxion Daily S&P Oil & Gas...

Robinhood has gained widespread attention amid the coronavirus pandemic. Its popularity has soared with its target audience: millennials. The app aims to make trading more accessible with its...

It was a quiet news day but Mondays don’t need news to go up.Yesterday's image represents the percentage of times that Mondays have closed higher then their Friday close since the March...

Back in early February of 2020, I warned those willing to listen that “Emerging Markets Look Sick,” which was actually the title of my article.In fact, when I posted this article in early...

Its been an interesting year in the financial markets, to say the least.And today’s chart qualifies as “interesting” indeed. When the market crashed in March, bond prices surged as...

Equities in developed markets ex-US topped returns for the major asset classes during the trading week through Aug. 14, based on a set of exchange traded funds. In second place: real estate shares...

The United States represents about half of the world market cap—the value of shares of all companies globally.  While that may seem like a giant piece of the pie, international markets,...

The biotech sector fund symbol SPDR® S&P Biotech ETF (NYSE:XBI) has a nice little head and shoulders pattern that is almost complete. And now, apropos of nothing. You’d think about...