During major market moves, and at potential market turning points, it’s often helpful to look at the ratio between the “offensive” Consumer Discretionary/Retail and the “defensive” Consumer Staples Read more…
XLP, XLY
Best Online Trades: The Uranium spot price according to UXC.com is currently near 70 dollars per pound as of January 12, 2011. I check the price occasionally and have been thinking about this Read more…
URA
Emerging markets took in another $1.8 billion, but amazingly developed markets are suddenly beginning to compete in terms of the fastest-growing part of the global economy. Read more…
NYSE:EWT, NYSE:EWY, NYSE:EWZ, RSX
As the market has been grinding higher over the past few months, we’ve heard many bears state that we are overbought and that we’re due for a correction. The overbought part was likely true, Read more…
QQQQ, SPY, XLB, XLE, XLV
In our previous free essay we’ve mentioned that mining stocks are at a particularly important crossroad, and whichever they decide to move is likely to determine the way for the underlying Read more…
IAU, NYSE:DGL, NYSE:DGP, NYSE:DGZ, NYSE:DZZ, NYSE:GDX, NYSE:GDXJ, NYSE:GLD, NYSE:GLL, SGOL, UBG, UGL
Back in early October, after a visit to the Texas State Fair, I wrote about inflation and the global food “problem” and how you can take advantage. Every stock I mentioned in the report has seen Read more…
NYSE:DRN, NYSE:DUST, NYSE:FAS, NYSE:FAZ, TNA, TZA
David Fry From ETF Digest goes into detail on an Internet ETF discussing the First Trust Dow Jones Internet Index ETF (NYSE:FDN) in a video. Read more…
AMEX:HHH, NYSE:FDN
In trading on Friday, the iPath DJ-UBS Cotton TR Sub-Idx ETN (NYSE:BAL) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 4.81% on the day. Also up on the day are the Read more…
AMEX:BHH, NYSE:AXMT, NYSE:BAL, NYSE:GWO, ROSA, SGG
This was clearly a bad week for bullion. The world’s reserve currencies all took revenge against gold, led by the euro’s 4.0 percent appreciation. Sterling gained 2.9 percent at the metal’s expense, Read more…
NYSE:GDX, NYSE:GDXJ, NYSE:GLD
Certain investment themes become so well known that they merit their own acronym. One of those is the BRICs – shorthand for the popular emerging market countries Brazil, Russia, India and China. Read more…
IDX, NYSE:EGPT, NYSE:EIDO, NYSE:EZA, NYSE:GUR, NYSE:GXG, TUR, VNM
Filing for TrimTabs Float Shrink ETF (TTFS): AdvisorShares has filed a preliminary prospectus for the TrimTabs Float Shrink ETF (NYSE:TTFS), an actively-managed ETF that will be sub-advised by Read more…
NEW FILING, NYSE:GTAA, NYSE:HDGE, NYSE:TTFS
We are on a collision course with the next oil shock. Most people won’t know it until it hits them right between the eyes with all the force of a ball-peen hammer. By then it will be too late. Read more…
NYSE:BNO, NYSE:DBE, NYSE:DBO, NYSE:DNO, NYSE:DTO, OIH, OIL, OLO, SCO, SZO, UCO, UHN, USL, USO
The KOSPI index in Seoul has been a rock-and-roll market for volatility traders everywhere, but now people are waiting for the music to go down a notch. Read more…
NYSE:EWY
Earlier this week stocks throughout the healthcare sector were hit hard after The House of Representatives voted to repeal President Obama’s healthcare reform law. Shares of the iShares Read more…
IHF
Global X will begin trading its new “Global X Russell Emerging Markets Value ETF” (NYSE:EMVX) Tuesday, January 25, 2011. The Global X Russell Emerging Markets Value ETF (“Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the Read more…
FUND LAUNCH, NYSE:EMVX
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