Buy, Sell, or Hold: Trading The Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX)
Scott Pluschau: The Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (NYSE:GDX) is now at the extremes of its mature balance area. Read more…
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Archive for August, 2011
Vanguard Files Preliminary Prospectus for Six Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs)
Vanguard Investments Canada Inc. has filed a preliminary prospectus with the Canadian securities regulators for its first suite of Canadian-domiciled exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The line-up of six funds includes equity and bond ETFs: Read more…
Social Media ETF – There Can Be Only ONE… (SKYY, LNKD, P)
The Social Media ETF is here, or so it’s called. Recently, Global X filed with the SEC (source) to launch a Social Media ETF which will be based on the The Solactive Social Media Index which is representative of business ventures involved social networking, file sharing, and other online media Read more…So Which Market Is “Getting it Wrong?” (TBT, TLT)
Nilus Mattive: Last week, Mike Larson did a great job of outlining some of the problems facing the global economy … and there’s no doubt they’re pretty big hurdles. Read more…
Financial Chart Talk: A Dire Correlation
Joseph McBrennan: The charts have a story to tell if you are willing to listen. Unfortunately, it’s a sad tale. Read more…
Buying Gold? Better Keep An Eye on India’s Weather (GLD, IAU)
With investors flocking to the barbarous relic, the $64,000 question is: Is gold in a bubble or can it go higher? What really affects its price? Who’s doing all the buying? How’s it being purchased? And, are gold stocks still a “Buy?” Investors contemplating an investment in gold at this point really need to understand the answers to all of those questions before making a Read more…
VIX Volatility Index: Interesting Similarities To 2008 (VIXY, TVIX, VXX, VXZ, XIV)
Thomas Carreno: I was recently studying a possible correlation between the VIX volatility index behavior of 2008 mini crash and the current market correction to see if it can help identify how mature the current decline is relative to the 2008 period. Read more…
A Look Into The DOW:GOLD Ratio & The Secular Bear Market (GLD, GDX, IAU, GDXJ, DZZ)
Toby Connor: As I have been warning investors for many months, stocks have now entered stage III of the secular bear market. Gold (NYSE:GLD) on the other hand is now in the final parabolic phase of a 2 1/2 year C wave advance. Read more…
Sparks Fly In China (UDN, UUP, CYB)
Tony Sagami: Vice-President Joe Biden and the basketball team of Georgetown University both went to China last week, and neither one of them received a warm welcome. Read more…Three Bond ETFs To Weather The Storm (EMLC, HYLD, LTPZ)
The downgrade handed down from Standard and Poor’s on U.S. debts was detrimental to American stocks for a short period, as major indexes saw plunges of 5% or more upon the release of the news. With investors flocking to pull their assets from equities, gold has seen yet another historic Read more…
Bearish Signals Raise Red Flags As Market Anticipates Fed (GLD, SLV, TLT, XLB, IWM, EEM)
Chris Ciovacco: We can expect more volatility (up and down) over the next ten days or so. The Federal Reserve has their annual Jackson Hole conference this week. Ben Bernanke is due to deliver public remarks on Friday. In 2010, the Fed used Jackson Hole as a forum to signal a second round Read more…
Trading The Globe: Value Time In Brazil? (FXI, EWZ, BBD, VALE, ITUB, BVN)
Tim Seymour: On Today’s Trading the Globe, we point out the obvious: Brazilian stocks are now cheaper than just about anything else out there. Read more…
How to Find the Market Bottom (SPY, DIA, QQQ)
“Are we there yet?” It’s a question gratingly familiar to any parent who’s taken the kids on a road trip. These days it’s the query flooding the Breakout inbox as investors look for something hopeful to cling to in the face of nearly unprecedented volatility. Scott Bleier, founder of Create Capital Advisors, says Read more…
Tuesday’s ETF To Watch: iShares U.S. Medical Devices Index Fund (IHI, MDT)
Given the ongoing weakness in the global economy, many investors have abandoned bets on risky sectors of the market and have instead focused their attention on traditional defensive segments. Thanks to relatively high growth prospects, health care has once again become a popular segment, Read more…
Gold Prices Hit Another Record; But Silver Is The Play To Make (GLD, SLV, IAU, AGQ, ZSL)
Jason Simpkins: Gold prices had another record-breaking day yesterday (Monday), with gold for December delivery climbing 2.1% to close at another all-time high of $1,891.90 an ounce on the Comex. Read more…
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