ETF Analysis & Opinion

Since Monday's premarket open, the S&P 500 was steadily rising before stabilizing above the mid-June tops. While the index comfortably closed at its intraday highs, can we trust this breakout?...

The Dow Jones futures are trading lower. There is still a lot of optimism among investors and the current weakness is nothing more than a pause.   The DJIA index is in battle with 200-day...

While there was a big boost from NASDAQ on Monday, the “inside” sectors are not yet believing the tech sector tells the whole story.For example, the financial sector continues to...

After three weeks of losses, real estate investment trusts (REITs) in the US bounced last week, posting the strongest gain for the major asset classes, based on a set of exchange-traded fundsVanguard...

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%,...

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...

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 &...

“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....