ETF Analysis & Opinion

The third quarter of 2013 was a mixed bag for the equity markets. It was a quarter marked by certain domestic as well as global events which could prove to be game changers going forward.Nevertheless,...

Americans are at it again. They are becoming wide-eyed at the prospect of real estate riches, convinced by media cheer-leading that the 2007-2009 collapse in home prices was a once-in-a-century...

It has been said that this is a stockpicker’s market, or a market of stocks not a stock market. If you have to pick a place to look then, why not focus on the Consumer Discretionary Sector?The...

Ongoing Government Shutdown will likely continue to drag down stock markets I predict another red day for the stock market on Thursday, due to the continued US Government shutdown and due to the fact...

WisdomTree, an ETF sponsor, added a new member to its fund family in the emerging market space. The latest entrant – WisdomTree Emerging Markets Consumer Growth Fund (EMCG) – will trade on...

Over the past few months, PowerShares Aerospace & Defense (PPA) has shown great relative strength to the benchmark S&P 500 Index. On the daily chart below, notice that $PPA has broken out...

If one focused his/her attention solely on year-to-date performance, he/she might eschew foreign stock ETFs altogether. With the S&P 500 SPDR Trust (SPY) and the iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 (IJH)...

Over the past several weeks we have seen the S&P 500 (SPY) and Dow (DIA) push lower while the higher beta indexes Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) and Russell 2000 (IWM). As you can see in the table below, both...

Among the more popular portfolios on Scott’s Investments has been the ETFReplay.com Portfolio. The strategy has been revised and improved for 2013 in order to make it simpler to follow. I...

Stocks as an asset class have shrugged off a wide variety of risks throughout the year. Sequestration failed to derail equity enthusiasm. The May-June interest rate spike did little to deter...

Chart 1: Financial sector is showing warning signs of a major topIn one of the recent posts, I showed how Health Care sector breadth divergence could be signalling that an uptrend might stall soon...

Besides more dysfunction from Washington D.C., investors will likely be cluing in to earnings season this week. Current earnings growth is expected to be around just 2.3%, and this represents a bit of...

A number of ETF issuers have launched new products lately, bringing the total number of funds just over the 1,500 mark. While a few of these funds have been targeting brand new niches, there has also...

Ongoing travails for JP Morgan (JPM) and other members of the financial sector yield opportunities for investors. There was no shortage of speculation concerning the matters discussed in a secret...