ETF Analysis & Opinion

For an asset class that isn't even 20 years old, exchange-traded products have certainly been on the receiving end of plenty of controversy. Blamed for everything from rising correlations to higher...

We have started this shortened trading week with a bang opening a new weekly SPX Iron Condor Spread on the S&P 500 Index yesterday and an NDX Iron Condor on the NASDAQ in the Monthly Trading...

We've previously examined what we deemed Mendoza line ETFs, or those funds that are trading below their 200-day moving averages. The baseball euphemism works because it's used to describe a batter...

Castigated and vilified, leveraged ETFs are a good something and that something is rapid gains. Think about it. Prior to the debut of these highly controversial products, traders in search of...

Global stocks take a sharp drop as European worries and poor economic news trip up investors around the world.  Yesterday’s rout started in Asia with the Nikkei declining 0.28%, the Topix...

Two weeks ago, the iShares MSCI Spain Index Fund ETF (EWP) finally broke through its 2009 lows. Today, EWP plunged to nine-year lows and is sinking fast. Charts like these remind us of the financial...

Let's clear up that little pop culture reference. Memorial Day weekend marks the start of the summer travel season and what we're going to look at today is a group of ETFs with the potential to...

There are hundreds of technical scenarios chartists swear by. Head and shoulders formations, double tops, triple bottoms and scores of others, but one of the most efficacious is the death cross....

Shares of the Powershares U.S. Dollar ETF (NYSE: UUP) have posted a breakout above their January 2011 rally highs. After declining for almost two years, UUP came off its lows last September-October...

The pattern of the morning pop followed by the afternoon fade remains in tact, but as long as we have higher lows and highs…. SPY $132.75 is holding for now with resistance about a dollar...

Today, the important semiconductor stocks are trading sharply higher. When the semiconductor stocks rally higher it is usually a good sign for the technology sector. The semiconductor sector is viewed...

Spain is still a problem, as price is trading down on this Spanish ETF during intraday trading on Tuesday morning (in contrast to other Foreign ETFs in my list), as well as on the Spanish Stock Index,...

Market volatility isn't going anywhere soon, and technology stocks are often the most volatile.   I have an ETF pair trade (i.e. long/short strategy) for investors who want to maximize...

We have to wonder as see markets fading quickly if many REITs had experienced a false spring rally and are now correcting. A recent report suggested that over one third of shopping malls will...