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The past few trading sessions have been plagued with worries both abroad and within our own borders. While investors scrambled to get out of equities, gold has seen a spark of life as the precious metal hit an all time high of $1,600 per ounce in intraday trading yesterday, pointing to a lack of Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: What signals or clues are coming from the broader Sector Rotation Model as we see it in July 2011? Read more…
If I had a nickel for every time I heard someone say they like cheap stocks, I’d probably be writing this from my yacht today. And if I had a dime for every time lately I heard someone say that until things clear up, they were going to hide out in health care, I’d probably need a Read more…
Any golfer will tell you one of the most common and costly mistakes in the game is not following through with your swing. Any investor will tell you there’s no surer sign of ambivalence than a big rally that gets no follow through. And that’s exactly what Tobias Levkovich, the Chief U.S. Equity Strategist at Citigroup thinks will happen this earnings season. “People are getting excited about Q2 earnings being the Read more…
Buoyed by solid volume stocks posted an impressive eighth consecutive day of gains on Thursday. Except for the DJIA (NYSE:DIA), all of the major indices closed more than one percent higher. The rally was led by the small-cap Russell 2000 (NYSE:IWM) as it posted an impressive 1.6% gain. Read more…
Please see the right hand side of Scott’s Investments for the July update to the US and Global Sector ETF portfolios. I track the performance of each month’s portfolio as well as previous months’ performance. A summary of the data is listed below, including the percent each ETF is above/below Read more…
Jon D. Markman: The markets may have been bullied a bit recently, but the way things are shaping up makes a solid case for mid-cap growth stocks. Read more…
As the president of Global Trends Investments and editor of ETF Trends.com, Tom Lydon spends lots of time looking at — you guessed it — trends. And right now the trend is down, and the money flow is clear. “Sector ETFs are not for the average guy… you have to keep a close eye on them” he says, but Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: I wanted to show a follow-up to my prior post “Clear Bearish Signals Developing from the Sector Rotation Model,” and focus on the breakouts in the “Big Three” Read more…
Yesterday we looked at how retracement levels can be used for trade ideas and to find levels of support and resistance during extreme price movements. Today we take a look at a technical tool meant for an intermediate time horizon, but still helpful for painting a day-to-day picture for Read more…
Nilus Mattive: Last week, I shared a recent stock screen I conducted … and I commented on some of the specific companies that it turned up. Today, I want to continue looking at the stock market, Read more…
Stocks finished up on Friday but well off the session highs. Friday’s improvement broke a four day losing streak for stocks but the market still closed lower for the week. Stocks began the day on Read more…
When the markets began to decline last month, some of the year’s best performing exchange traded funds (ETFs) saw the highest level shorted since 2007. About 10% of total shares outstanding of all domestically traded etfs were 
There are some exchange-traded funds that we find attractive and investors should be focusing on, said Jeff Duncan, CEO of Duncan Financial Group, and David Kotok, chairman and CIO of 
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