ETF Analysis & Opinion

One step back...one step forward. On Tuesday, the S&P made back most of Monday's losses, on slightly lighter volume than the previous day's distribution selling. The breakout has yet to occur but...

We got that extension of Friday's rally on Monday, as I called for. Vaccine hype news. Good for bulls with tight exit orders – I managed to take a 55-points profit off the table. But big tech...

During the bull run of the past decade, semiconductor stocks have been essential drivers of the broader technology sector's upside. Although initially, they were among those shares that sold off...

Stocks reversed lower yesterday in a somewhat violent move, and if you were hoping for a breakout, you got it, and then it failed miserably.The Nasdaq 100 had been up by as much as 2% but managed to...

Bank earnings are set to tank 69% year-over-year for the second quarter. But it is not the expectations, rather whether or not those expectations are exceeded. Analysts are worried about the huge...

So far, 2020 has been a good year for gold bulls. Year-to-date, the precious metal is up about 17%. Earlier in July, the price of gold passed the $1,800 mark to reach its highest level in almost a...

The way most folks invest, they’ll need way more than a million bucks to retire—in fact, they’ll need almost double that!No wonder so many people throw up their hands and commit to...

It will be a big week for the stock market as earnings season kicks into high gear. We will get results from all the big banks starting on Tuesday, and how these results go could begin to set the tone...

US equities once again put in a mixed performance with small caps (NYSE:IWM) lagging, down -.76% for week, while Nasdaq 100 was up +4.67 % and registered yet another new all-time high on Friday....

Perhaps the most incredible aspect of the market and for traders is the ever-changing landscape of investment opportunities.I spend a lot of time telling followers that the rules have changed. The...

If your US equity strategy is posting a gain this year there’s a good chance that the key driver is a hefty allocation to either the large-cap growth, or momentum factors. These are the only two...

Lipper’s fund asset groups (including both mutual funds and ETFs) took in $16.9 billion of net new money for the fund-flows trading week ended Wednesday, July 8. The taxable bond funds group...

As the mainstream business media like CNBC and Bloomberg keep pointing out, the similarities to today’s S&P 500 and the late 1990s are unmistakable: the incredible out-performance of Tech as...

The malls were high risk before COVID-19, given the number of bankruptcies of chain stores such as Pier 1 and Toys "R" Us.Online shopping generated malls to become like ghost towns. Now with COVID-19,...