ETF Analysis & Opinion

This morning, the S&P 500 Index e-mini futures (ES-U2) are trading higher by 4.75 points to 1465.25 per contract. Traders and investors should be focused on the U.S. Dollar Index futures (DX-Z2)...

Portfolio managers returning from their summer holidays have apparently liked what they’ve heard from the central banks. Although total volume remains modest, U.S. stock indexes have hit new...

Wednesday brought another sleepy day to Wall Street as major U.S. indexes and ETFs advanced modestly while volatility, as measured by the VIX, continued to fall. The big news yesterday was more...

Recently a friend of mine sent me an e-mail after my review of Eric Falkenstein’s latest book. Here it is:David, I’ve been reading a decent amount of the academic literature on low vol...

The vast majority of dollars invested in volatility oriented securities are bets that volatility will go up. Sometimes these bets are speculative, but more often they’re portfolio insurance....

The S&P 500 (SPY) finished last week higher by another +2.0%, leaving equities broadly short-term overbought coming into this new week.

This analog of the real estate ETF (IYR) is looking promising, although I'm not doing anything about it yet. The upper chart is from last year; the lower chart is the present condition. We haven't...

The Fed has enacted QE3 with an indefinite time deadline. Europe continues to make progress after Draghi’s bond buying announcement and Chancellor Merkel’s reaffirmation. The market has...

Today I want to take a look at the emerging market ETF (EEM). We have seen a rally in EEM alongside most equities, both local and international. Emerging markets have also gotten a boost by some of...

Two down, one to go as global financial markets, stocks and ETFs turn to Big Ben Last week, Mario Draghi delivered his bond buying program. Yesterday the German Constitutional Court signed off on...

Here is an interesting performance chart of silver's ETF (SLV) over the past 2 months from its July low. It has been overlaid on the comparative period (2-month chart from the summer low) in 2010...

Tech leaders like Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) led the pull back while retailers and some of the commodities names held up. There were some doubts on the ECB bond purchase program as Italy and Spain...

ETFs rise in anticipation of German ESM ruling and FOMC statements Markets rose higher yesterday in anticipation of Dr. Ben and the German Constitutional Court’s ESM verdicts over the next few...