ETF Analysis & Opinion

Precious Metals have not broken out. Not yet.Gold closed the week at $1790 and Silver at $18.32. They have yet to breach critical resistance levels at $1800 and $18.75.  But the junior sector has...

Most of us know we need to stay in stocks through this crisis—but some days it’s easier said than done!Let’s be honest: we could all use a break—a way to hedge against the...

The Metals and Mining ETF (NYSE:XME) tends to slog and churn slowly, but it does so in broad, sweeping cycles. Looking at the entire history of this instrument, you can plainly see a quartet of...

If in early January, you’d have described to us everything that was to happen with the world and global economy and then asked us to guess where the stock market would be, we would not have...

With the markets such a tangled mess these days, I continue to rely on important, long-term ratio charts to appreciate the big picture. Here, once again, is the Russell 2000 divided by the S&P...

Stock bulls retraced over half of Friday's plunge, but does it count as a reversal? When I look at the volume, the weekly chart, and the credit markets, I have my doubts. Or will the Powell &...

This seems exactly like last week. That is, a firehose of bad news all through the weekend, a big gap down on Sunday, and then, step by step, green across the board. Annoying. Absolutely annoying....

Over the weekend, I covered the financial sector in depth.Last week, the Volcker rule was rolled back, while the Federal Reserve decreased dividends paid to shareholders and ruled against corporate...

Amid news of rising coronavirus cases in the US and elsewhere last week, investors favored bonds at the expense of risk assets, based on a set of exchange-traded funds representing the major asset...

Just at a time when investors thought our market rally might be nearly invincible, we’ve seen a pretty important reversal in the uptrend in recent days along with a meaningful breakdown in...

The week ended for markets with sellers in control. The damage was sufficient to put markets on warning for a bearish reversal—but the last such attempt in early June was quickly reversed by...

This past week, the financial sector saw some fireworks. The Volcker rule was rolled back, while the Federal Reserve decreased dividends and ruled against corporate buybacks. Where does the name...

Three overriding catalysts were driving the market correction this past week:The market had gotten a good bit ahead of fundamentals. The surge in COVID cases is undermining the V-shaped recovery...

Stocks made quite a move out of the 5-day long congestion yesterday – is the downside move drawing to a close? I don't think so yet, and today's analysis will discuss quite a few reasons why. As...