ETF Analysis & Opinion

To improve diversification and prevent single-company or single-industry blow-ups (like gold miners, from which we are still recovering) I’m always looking for mutual funds, closed-end funds, or...

April generated some wide differences in performance between hot and cold ETFsNewton’s First Law Of Motion suggests that an object in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted upon by an...

I realize on a day like this, it may seem the height of insanity to suggest shorting anything, but my raison d’etre persists. The consumer staples ETF, symbol XLP, is up 0.74% as I’m...

Daisy Maxey is a talented financial columnist for WSJ.com. Ms. Maxey also follows me on Twitter. Not surprisingly, then, I may be slightly hesitant to question the timing of her recent feature,...

One ETF on our radar screen for potential buy entry right now is First Trust Internet Index (FDN). Unlike many of the strongest ETFs in the market that are near-term extended to the upside, $FDN has...

SPY failed at its resistance at the swing-high 159.72 on Tuesday, this started the toward trend, which continued yesterday. The selling sent SPY below short-term support at 158.86 and it closed near...

Here is a preview of the monthly moving averages I track on the last business day of the month. All three S&P 500 strategies are now signaling "invested" -- unchanged from last month. One of the...

One of the most prominent names in perma-bear predicting, Nouriel Roubini, just advised that you buy stocks for a period of about 2 years. At that time, the professor expects a global economic...

On Monday, April 29, the S&P 500 was, just before the close, at an all-time record peak. Yet very few folks seem to be talking about “selling high, and buying low.” If anything, a...

The financial sector showed many charts set up in a bearish Shark pattern this weekend. BY using the SPDR KBW Regional Banking Index ETF, KRE, below you can see how the shark sets up. SPDR KBW...

Here are the Rest of the Top 10: AFLAC, Ticker: AFLGraco, GGG, is also approaching resistance at the top of an expanding wedge. These can often be a top but it has two things going for it. The RSI is...

Last week was another fine one for U.S. stocks as the broader market fought off an array of data points that can only be considered mixed at best to again close higher. With last week's 1.4 percent...