ETF Analysis & Opinion

T2108 Status: 61.6%VIX Status: 12.5General (Short-term) Trading Call: Hold (bullish bias)Active T2108 periods: Day #120 over 20%, Day #1 over 60% (overperiod), Day #38 under 70%Commentary Little has...

After being stressed over the past few years, the renewable energy sector has fired on all cylinders and is the major gainer this year, clearly outpacing the broad market. This is largely thanks to a...

Some media writers have expressed little surprise by the extent of the run-up in U.S. stocks. It’s one thing to be bullish. It’s quite another to look at 28% year-to-date gains for the...

It's been my theory for some time now that this QE driven bull market would top either in late 2013 or early 2014, followed by a multi-month stagnation process as liquidity leaked into the commodity...

The Fed finally decided to reduce its monthly bond purchases by $10 billion and the stock market reacted positively to the news as the move was made “in the light of improvement in the economic...

As boring as the Dow Jones Utility Average might sound, it’s actually a fascinating little beast. It provided the most gorgeous topping pattern imaginable back in 2007-2008, and it behaves...

Stock markets initially plummeted on the notion that the Federal Reserve would print less money, buy less government debt and stand by as interest rates soared into the stratosphere. Very quickly,...

The holiday season is upon us, which means all eyes are going to be on the retail sector for the next few weeks. One-fifth of all retail spending in the U.S. happens during the holidays. For some...

The bulk of business headlines this week will deal with the “will they or won’t they” issue. Specifically, some folks expect the United States Federal Reserve to finally begin...

Volatility based Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) have only been on the market for a few years (see volatility tickers for the full list of USA based funds).  The oldest one, Barclays’ VXX...

The 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) has been trending sideways for the last month forming a symmetrical triangle pattern. TLT remains within the limits of the short-term declining Raff Regression...

2014 will be the year that emerging markets make a comeback. Emerging market stocks, as measured by the iShares MSCI Emerging Market Index ETF (EEM), have been drifting lower for nearly three years...