ETF Analysis & Opinion

First Solar stock and solar ETFs are hot and here’s how you can participateFirst Solar (FSLR) stock triggered a solar flare last week on the Nasdaq as circuit breakers were triggered on Tuesday,...

Technically SpeakingRSI-I have written about my observations of negative divergence taking place with the RSI indicator and the MACD indicator for the last three weeks, but now I am noticing...

U.S. stocks have been resilient in their response to bad news throughout the year. They may sink at the start of a trading day, but they’ve been able to recover quickly and finish...

Here are the Rest of the Top 10: Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Ticker: ARIAAriad Pharmaceuticals, ARIA, is moving higher off of a bottom at 16.50. The long shadows on the candles from the previous week were...

Last week’s review of the macro market indicators suggested, heading into the new week the markets were decidedly weaker but not surrendering yet. It looked for Gold (GLD) to continue to bounce...

Treasury bonds are rocketing, commodities are reeling and the euro-zone’s economy is contracting. That is hardly the backdrop for continued equity price appreciation. Yet the U.S. stock market...

Bulls have regained their footing and recruited some reinforcements, as the S&P 500 on Wednesday powered right through its 5.5-year intraday high of 1576 on increased trading volume to set a new...

Our technical ETF and stock scans have produced several high quality stock and ETF swing trade setups over the past several days. Within the realm of ETFs, a majority of the most bullish chart...

On two occasions in March, we wrote that we were looking for a possible breakout for the widely traded ETF, Nasdaq 100 Powershares Trust (QQQ). Since early March, the Q's have traded in a well...

According to Steven Russolillo at WSJ.com, Goldman Sachs advises investors to short gold. Granted, the yellow metal has experienced a brutal downtrend that has lasted six arduous months. What’s...

I can count at least 10 tops in the Treasury Bond ETF, TLT, since last July. In fact I have numbered them in the chart below. But in the end, every one of the first 9 has been bought. Now we sit with...

Flare-ups in the euro-zone refuse to disappear entirely. On the heels of a disastrous Italian election and a full-fledged banking crisis in Cyprus, a Portuguese court has ruled that some of the...

When it comes to emerging markets ETFs, knowing what countries are left out of or only have minimal exposure in a particular fund is often as important as knowing what nations dominate that ETF. At...