ETF Analysis & Opinion

Shares of the small cap ETF iShares Russell 2000 Fund (NYSE: IWM) broke out to new 2012 highs on Monday, March 19. After two months of underperformance, small caps outperformed all the major indexes...

This morning, the S&P 500 Index e-mini futures (ES-M2) are trading lower by 2.50 points to 1396.00 per contract. This is basically another flat open for the major stock indexes. The problems in...

Playing the Natural Gas Market via ETFs is a Fool's Game — the ETF Prices Have Nothing to do with RealityThis past week I got into an intersting email discussion with Kid Dynamite, a fellow...

Stock markets clawed higher this week, reaching milestones and overextended conditionsThe recent powerful rally in the S&P 500 has been fueled by improving economic reports and the promise of...

Stock price action finally made the leap over 2011 highs to break the heavily watched S&P 500 1,400 level. In-fact, the SPY ETF finished higher by +2.4%. After an FOMC statement excluding mention...

T2108 Status: 63%VIX Status: 14.5%General (Short-term) Trading Call: Hold with a bullish bias (more details below)Commentary For the third day in a row, T2108 closed at 63%.The rapid drop from...

Below is a percentage comparison chart of the Dow 30, S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, and Russell 2000 Indices, and the Financials ETF (XLF). I've started it from the October 2011 lows.As you can see, the...

Major U.S. stock indexes bounce higher as the rally extends another dayThe S&P 500 (NYSEARCA:SPY) moved higher today, pushing into resistance seemingly unimpeded, and now is closing in on its old...

Here’s the second installment of our review of ETFs that can be used to replicate the Global Market Index, a passive, unmanaged benchmark that’s comprised of the major asset classes. In...

“Beware the ides of March.” - William Shakespeare Markets have had a big run so far in 2012, and I believe there is much more room to go given my analysis that suggests that the...

It was a day for the record books.  The market rallied into the Fed announcement, and then following the results, powered up further to add another 10 points on the S&P, despite a rather...

Further to my post of March 9th, and as can be seen on the two Daily charts below, the Financials ETF (XLF) outperformed the SPX and the U.S. $ on Tuesday. With Tuesday's volume spike, the...

Real estate ETFs are just about the only area recently whose bullishness I actually buy - - DRN, URE, and IYR are all super-looking charts. My largest long (by far), IYR, is poised for a breakout. In...

Stocks and ETFs put in an impressive rally while VIX and silver craterIt was an impressive day for stocks and ETFs yesterday as markets reacted to good news on retail sales and then cheered the...