ETF Analysis & Opinion

In my April 31st presentation on Stockcharts, I begin by walking you through the Economic Modern Family: (Russell 2000, Retail ETF (NYSE:XRT), Biotechnology ETF (NASDAQ:IBB), Regional Banking ETF...

Biggest Rally Since 1974Could “Sell In May” be a good risk strategy this year? Maybe, considering we asked a simple question last week: “Is the bear market rally over?”...

Recently, the Transportation Index and the S&P SPDR ETF (NYSE:SPY)setup topping patterns near the end of April 2020. In terms of technical triggers, these patterns need to see additional downside...

Is it Hi-Yo silver miners Time for miners? We could find out soon, as Silver Miners ETF (NYSE:SIL) is testing a key breakout level. The sharp decline in March saw SIL test the 2015 lows, creating the...

Losses still dominate year-to-date results for all the main regional slices of global stock markets, but China is holding on to it leadership position by posting a modest decline, based on a set of...

For the first time during this crash, as of yesterday, Small Caps (via iShares Russell 2000 ETF (NYSE:IWM)) have begun to swing into a position of leadership with a breakout. The April 'bull...

Risk Gauges backed off to neutral as U.S. equities put in a rather muted week, with the NASDAQ 100 down -.63% while Grandpa Russell (NYSE:IWM) picked up some lost ground by closing +.29%.Both the...

Market rally stalls at resistance, is the “bear market rally over?” That’s the question we have been discussing over the last few weeks. So far, most of it has played out exactly as...

Every sector of the U.S. stock market has lost ground so far in 2020, but the dispersion of results is wide and health care shares have lost considerably less than the rest of the field, based on a...

Is the “Mother of all support tests in play currently?” It humbly looks like it to me friends! This 2-pack looks at the Banking Index and the Thomson Reuters Equal Weight Commodity Index...

Stocks finished the day lower by a modest 1.8% on the S&P 500. In regular times, that would be a lot, but these days aren’t normal times by any stretch of the imagination. How could they be...

The opening gaps lower could have evolved into something worse Monday, but indices did well to stay close to their open price, even managing an intraday rally, but not enough to make new highs.Again,...

For the first time since February, shares of U.S. companies rose for a second calendar week through the close of trading on Apr. 17. The rally echoed similar gains in foreign shares, based on a set of...

I found this kind of fascinating. Here is the SPY (NYSE:SPY) shown with its 30-day implied volatility rank. This relative rank of volatility went roaring higher late in February, and it kept banging...