ETF Analysis & Opinion

Internals are fairly negative, but pricing is thus far holding support above the Pivot for the SPY, and the rising five-day moving average for the QQQ.Lethargic ActionEarnings from IBM and Intel were...

As we head into first quarter earnings season, institutional managers are becoming more risk averse – with allocations to speculative stocks (technology and small-caps specifically) drying up....

Finally — it was really looking like things could go either way yesterday. Of course, that’s always the case, but you know what I mean! I estimate SPY resistance cleared up through $139.30...

The Health Care sector ranks 2nd out of the ten sectors as detailed in my sector roadmap. It gets my Neutral rating, which is based on aggregation of ratings of 22 ETFs and 86 mutual funds in the...

The Consumer Staples sector ranks first out of the ten sectors as detailed in my sector roadmap. It gets my Attractive rating, which is based on the aggregation of my ratings for 10 ETFs and 9 mutual...

The best ETFs and mutual funds have high-quality holdings and low costs. There are few funds that have both good holdings and low costs. There are lots of cheap funds, but there are too few funds with...

This morning, the S&P 500 Index e-mini futures (ES-M2) are trading higher by 8.00 points to 1372.00 per contract. The move higher in the futures market comes as the European markets are rebounding...

The most important chart that anyone can follow is a chart of the U.S. Dollar Index. The major stock indexes and most leading commodities will usually trade inverse to the world's reserve currency....

The SPY has turned green for the day, while Apple (AAPL) continues to weigh down Tech. Internals have been mostly in a range-day mode until the last half hour or so, which has taken on a more bullish...

Last fall I spoke at an active money management conference, where I introduced about a half-a-dozen or more weekly inter-market ETF models designed to measure “risk acceptance” in...

For the last several weeks we had been hypothesizing a pullback, and here it is. Last week, the S&P 500 (SPY) fell back another -1.9%. However, the VIX is increasingly stretched from its mean,...

Spain roils world markets as borrowing costs increase and stock market plungesSpain is back on the front pages of global financial media as worries mount over the health of the country’s banking...

It was only a matter of time before the extraordinarily strong inflows into high yield bond funds came to an end. This past week saw the first net outflows out of HY this year - about $1.4bn of...

ETFs provide a great trading vehicle. One of our programs uses a 28-member universe to find the most promising sector for the next three weeks. I have not provided the ETF updates during the last...