ETF Analysis & Opinion

Stocks managed to regain yesterday what they lost in the final hour of trading Tuesday. I’m not sure that much changed though from the recent trends. It just seems as if the weaker dollar may...

After climbing steadily for months, bonds (by way of TLT) have broken their intermediate-term uptrend. Falling bonds means, naturally, rising interest rates. It’s hard to conjure a world this...

Wednesday was another good day for the S&P 500. This time the index finished just a whisker shy of a record close. Not bad for the worst economy since the Great Depression. But anyone who reads...

There's one group of US companies still scheduled to report Q2 earnings as the season winds down: major retailers. Overall, the sector has been among the big winners as consumers accelerated their...

Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Ripple have attracted widespread attention since Bitcoin was created in 2009. However, the blockchain technology that these cryptocurrencies are based on...

There was a small dose of trouble for indices yesterday as the NASDAQ pulled away from former channel support (turned resistance) with relative performance accelerating away from the Russell 2000....

Will yesterday's market tremors shake the Invesco QQQ out of its solidly bullish 4-month channel? On April 14th, the QQQ broke above its 50 DMA (blue line) and began the trend that you see above. A...

Reviewing the global equity market as a single portfolio reveals a sleepy affair for year-to-date results through yesterday’s close (Aug. 10). But slicing and dicing shares into the major equity...

There has been a bit of a rotation trade taking place in the market, and that is resulting in these diverging indexes. The Nasdaq 100 is weaker yesterday, falling by about 50 bps, while the S&P...

I’ve got a fun quiz for you today, and the answer may surprise you, as markets often do.The challenge is simple. The symbols in the image above are not in the correct order of the returns...

Well, how about that for the Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ:QQQ)... Funny enough, my best performers recently have been stocks on which I placed the trade not based on some fancy-pants pattern but...

The S&P 500 closed again above the mid-Feb bearish gap, and the talk of taking on the all-time highs is intensifying. So does the greed that's growing more extreme with each passing day. With the...

Shares in foreign developed-market nations topped returns last week for the major asset classes. After retreating for two weeks, this corner of global equity markets rebounded and led a wide-ranging...

Friday marked what could be the start of a significant shift in the market following the jobs report. The dollar index rallied sharply and appeared to have put in a double bottom. The index has found...