Brad Zigler:  ‘Today is for winners, yesterday’s for losers’ goes some old sports adage. Well, we’re going to turn that maxim on its head with this column. Read more…

NYSE:GDX

Knight Capital Group, Inc. (NYSE Euronext: KCG) today announced that its institutional exchange traded fund (ETF) team has been named top “ETF Market Maker Read more…

ETF BASIC NEWS

Schwab has filed paperwork with the SEC for a “Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF.” The fund’s goal is to track as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index. The Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, is comprised of U.S. Read more…

NEW FILING, NYSE:SCHZ

Tyler Craig:  Volume follows price action in the hierarchy of charting.  If price action is king, then consider volume the prince.  There are a variety of methods used to seek clues hidden in volume Read more…

NYSE:SLV

I’ve been anxious to rebuy some mining positions for a couple of weeks now, but just haven’t seen the setup that is right for me.  We had a buy signal many days ago on the Market Vectors Gold Read more…

NYSE:GDX

iShares announced that it will change the trading symbol for the iShares FTSE NAREIT Industrial/Office Capped Index Fund (NYSE:FIO) this Thursday. Effective Thursday April 28, 2011, the fund will change its ticker from (NYSE:FIO) to its new ticker (NYSE:FNIO). There is no change in the Read more…

NYSE:FIO, NYSE:FNIO

Little bit of caution on silver after the “poor man’s gold” hit a record peak yesterday morning. Read more…

NYSE:SLV

Experience tells us the best approach to this week’s Fed trifecta (meeting, statement, and press conference) is (a) to be patient, (b) wait for the news to come out, (c) monitor the market’s Read more…

NYSE:AGG, NYSE:DBC, NYSE:SLV, NYSE:SPY, NYSE:XLB, NYSE:XLE, NYSE:XLP, NYSE:XLU

New York-based asset manager Van Eck Global announced today that it has launched Market Vectors Investment Grade Floating Rate ETF (NYSE:FLTR), an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the Market Vectors Investment Grade Floating Rate Index Read more…

NYSE:FLTR

NYSE:DBA, NYSE:GLD, NYSE:MOO, NYSE:SLV, NYSE:TBT, NYSE:TLT, NYSE:UDN, NYSE:UUP

This essay will attempt to address the question of whether or not silver prices are in a bubble, or possibly may be turning into a bubble and if so what trading strategies may be suited to the Read more…

NYSE:AGQ, NYSE:DBS, NYSE:PSLV, NYSE:SIL, NYSE:SIVR, NYSE:SLV, NYSE:ZSL

Unlike mutual funds, ETFs are bought not from the company that creates and manages the products, but from other market participants. While that arrangement is responsible for many Read more…

NYSE:GAZ, NYSE:NAGS, NYSE:UNG

Thanks to some solid economic data and encouraging news on the job front, many are feeling just a little better about the economy.  However, with oil prices surging and the price for a host of other Read more…

NYSE:XRT

Dian L. Chu:  The Silver market is in a bubble stage right now. No one really knows how long this will last, whether Silver goes up another $5, 10, 20 doesn`t really matter for investors who are buying Read more…

NYSE:AGQ, NYSE:DBS, NYSE:PSLV, NYSE:SIL, NYSE:SIVR, NYSE:SLV, NYSE:ZSL

Stocks traded in a tight range on Monday as they consolidated for a second consecutive day on light volume. The Nasdaq was the only major index to close in positive territory but the losses Read more…

NYSE:ENY, NYSE:URA