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Chris Ciovacco: The bulls have been firmly in control since the Europen Central Bank (ECB) induced rally off the December 19 low in stocks. However, last week’s capitulation selling in the VIX and current divergences between the S&P 500 and Transports have opened a crack in the bearish door. We believe a Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: Financial markets love any story that involves printing money. Tuesday’s report showing China’s import growth fell to a two-year low prompted speculation that “China will loosen monetary policies to bolster economic growth”, according to Bloomberg. Tuesday’s gains left numerous Read more…
Sy Harding: Some investing truisms are pure baloney. For instance, that you can rely on the stock market returning 10% to 12% per year on average. That if you want higher profits you have to take Read more…
David Fry: Our goal in this profile is to help investors wade through the many competing ETF offerings available. Using our long experience as an ETF publication, we can help select those ETFs the matter and may not be repetitive. The result is a more manageable list of issues from which to Read more…
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Fidelity Investments announced on Wednesday that it has added a five more iShares exchange traded funds to its free trading program. Fidelity now offers its brokerage customers free trading on 30 ETFs all managed by BlackRock’s iShares unit, up from 25 when the partnership began Read more…
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The first trading day of 2011 brought with it substantial volume and strong gains across all major indices. The small-cap Russell 200 led the charge as it rallied 1.9% on the session. The technology Read more…
Today was very uninspiring for the bull case on many indices and in many different aspects. Volume was lacking today in a big way. Price conviction was lacking also. There were also plenty Read more…
Today we saw big price destruction in the sp500 which gave back a good portion of the hard earned gains of last Friday’s reversal. I was looking for a confirmation of last Friday’s bullish reversal Read more…
Back in April PowerShares came out with its lineup of Small Cap Sector ETFs, making it easier for small-cap investors to play certain sectors of the market. This is a huge deal, and I recommend you Read more…
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“An ETF for U.S. small-cap stocks, iShares S&P Small Cap 600 Index Fund (IJR), set a fresh 52-week high on Friday and is trading at levels last seen right around Lehman Brothers filed for Read more…
An overlooked, underutilized, and perhaps misunderstood ETF trading strategy is “pairs trading” where one essentially would marry a long position in one ETF with a short position in another Read more…
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The year is 2007, and while markets seem healthy on the surface, behind the curtain a financial crisis is looming. Slowly but surely, the sub-prime mortgage crisis was building as highly levered 
A year after the notorious “Flash Crash,” CNBC’s Herb Greenburg addresses the alarmingly high level of ETF failures to settle. A settlement failure occurs when somebody’s not 
U.S. small cap stocks have been doing well recently. In fact, small cap blend (NYSE:IWM) has a 24.15% 52-week return. Only the Smallcap Growth (NYSE:IWO) and Midcap Growth (NYSE:IWP) 
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