ETF Analysis & Opinion

Stocks managed to start the week very strong, with the S&P 500 rising by another 1%. The index got a late day boost with nearly $3.4 billion to buy going into the closing print. The comeback for...

Rarely do you enter a market environment when the fear is as palpable as it was in the middle of March of this year. The world was coming to an end based upon most of what I was reading. And, as we...

This chart is checked every 3 – 6 months. The “average, annual” return on the S&P 500 from 1/1/200 is 5.91%, still below the 7% long-term, post-WW II average (with a shout-out to...

Traders got the spin they wanted out of Friday's data which offered the impetus for the breakouts in lead indices. It's hard to understand how markets could perceive things as out of the woods but yet...

Something big to move stocks is brewing under the surface - Treasuries are down, the dollar is under pressure, gold refusing to decline much... I think it's the market's growing realization that all...

If the market were truly reflecting the times—civil unrest, potential for a second wave of the pandemic, an unemployment rate of more like 16% (considering the millions who were counted as...

A Note About That Jobs NumberOn Friday, the Bureau Of Labor Statistics released the widely expected employment report for May. Despite continued weekly jobless claims over the last month exceeding...

If you invest in closed-end funds (CEFs) or are thinking about it (and you should be!), I’ve got great news: there’s one simple indicator that tells you exactly when to buy (or sell) these...

Civil unrest is not impacting the market right now, as much as one might think it should. Someone said today that the market has no conscience. Yet, the market is behavioral.Currently, the...

Traders kept their blinkers on yesterday, even as Rome burned. There was very little reaction to the chaos across America, played on a backdrop to COVID-19 and massive unemployment. Markets trade on...

Now that “sell in May” and go away did not work out so well for the bears, what will June hold for both the bulls and the bears?Since the price lows that were established in late March,...

After Thursday's late-day setback, stocks stabilized only to dip again in the runup to Trump's press conference – but what is the subsequent rebound made of? In today's flagship Stock Trading...

If you’re like most people, you’re wondering how in the world the market can be doing this when the country has been on lockdown for the better part of two months:Stocks Soaring As you...

NASDAQ 100 – (QQQ)The trading channel of the Nasdaq 100 is rather amazing. We get this 4 to 5% drawdowns rather quickly only to reverse right off the base of the channel. Yesterday's price...