ETF Analysis & Opinion

Two weeks ago my first “Sensitive Issues Scoring” model based on relative positioning of and among nine economically sensitive ETFs issued a first warning for equities. Last week, a...

Trade The Pain In Spain For Gain The pain in Spain for the last few weeks and the pain in Europe for the last year have worn down investors who have witnessed near disaster and catastrophe in Greece,...

Bear alert triggered for U.S. stock marketOn Monday, April 16, 2012, one of the primary indicators I use for tracking long term trends in the U.S. stock market triggered a “bear alert,”...

The Telecom Services sector ranks ninth out of the ten sectors as detailed in my sector roadmap. It gets my Dangerous rating, which is based on aggregation of ratings of 5 ETFs and 12 mutual funds in...

The Utilities sector ranks eighth out of the ten sectors as detailed in my sector roadmap. It gets my Dangerous rating, which is based on aggregation of ratings of 9 ETFs and 39 mutual funds in the...

Two of my long-term risk models are now signaling market transition warnings for the weeks ahead — more on this in a follow-on post tomorrow. Meanwhile, for a week that sure “felt”...

Apple Computer (AAPL) is only 5 points away from its 50-day moving average at 569.23. Selling could explode once it falls beneath that level. Whether it happens tomorrow or not depends on which major...

Larry Fink of BlackRock must be cracking open the Champagne again. The BlackRock junk bond ETF (HYG) has hit another record in shares outstanding. HYG market cap is now approaching $15bn, generating...

The Consumer Discretionary sector ranks 5th out of the ten sectors as detailed in my sector roadmap. It gets my Neutral rating, which is based on aggregation of ratings of 18 ETFs and 27 mutual funds...

The Industrials sector ranks fourth out of the ten sectors as detailed in my sector roadmap. It gets my Neutral rating, which is based on aggregation of ratings of 16 ETFs and 18 mutual funds in the...

The Information Technology sector ranks 3rd out of the ten sectors as detailed in my sector roadmap. It gets my Neutral rating, which is based on aggregation of ratings of 28 ETFs and 151 mutual funds...

Earlier this week, Benzinga was the first outlet to highlight the dire impact Argentina's nationalization of YPF S.A. (NYSE: YPF) could have on the lone Argentina ETF, the Global X FTSE Argentina 20...

This afternoon, all of the leading gold mining stocks are coming under selling pressure. The popular Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:GDX) is trading lower by 0.65 cents to $46.48 a...

The markets opened lower after earnings reports from International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) and Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC). Both reports were slightly shy of Wall Streets expectations....