ETF Analysis & Opinion

I have separated my long-running Investor section from Weighing the Week Ahead. My hope is to highlight ideas for the long-term investor. In last week’s post I introduced the key concepts and...

The NASDAQ 100 (QQQ) closed the week at new all-time highs, +1.65%, while the Dow Industrials (NYSE:DIA) was down -.2%. In fact, YTD, the Dow is down -9.36% while the Nasdaq 100 is up 18.62%,...

What an incredible and shorter week in the world of high finance.Doomsday news appeared EVERYWHERE yet did not impact the market per se. Gold however, like our recycled, solid gold art installation,...

A Breakout Of ConsolidationOver the last few week’s we have noted the continuing consolidation of the market since the June peak. When markets are overbought short-term, that condition is...

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...

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...

“You cannot fight the Fed.” The general market reliance on the Fed is not only what is driving many investor’s decisions of late, but it will likely reach its peak in the coming...

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...

Sellers had managed to push indices back to support levels where buyers are looking to make a stand.  The S&P is down at the June swing low which is also the 50-day MA. Technicals are a...

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...