ETF Analysis & Opinion

Time to hop overseas and explore some non-U.S. markets by way of their ETFs. We start with one of the biggies, the EFA, which is all markets except North America. There is potential for more strength...

We begin with gold, which barely cracked a huge supporting trendline, only to do a marvelous head fake and blast over $50/ounce higher on Friday. Take note the gap it is approaching is important...

The S&P 500 is blooming, while gold cannot hide its weakness. Both have an impact on junior miners, but which lead will gold stocks follow?Will the rally in stocks continue? Will miners follow...

Check out the price action on the following monthly charts of the Commodity ETF (DBC) and the Agriculture ETF (DBA).During intraday trading today, they are both hovering over their major support...

Today we revisit an incredibly important stock market ratio: The VanEck Semiconductor ETF (NASDAQ:SMH) versus the SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY).This ratio highlights how an important tech leadership...

For the Refinitiv Lipper fund-flows week ended September 21, 2022, money market funds was the only asset class to attract net new money for the week, taking in $30.0 billion, while taxable fixed...

SPY had an interesting week as the sell-off continued. It faked many people out on Sept. 12 as it poked above the minor downtrend line we've had over the last few weeks.It looked as if the trend was...

Today is a pivotal day for the SPY. On Sept. 7, we bounced right off the up-trend line formed from Jun. 17 to Jul. 14. We can see that on Friday, Sept. 9, we came up with that blue downtrend line from...

Investors were overall net redeemers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs) for the first week in three, removing a net $30.2 billion—their largest weekly net outflows...

Investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs) for the first week in three, injecting a net $15.9 billion—their largest weekly net inflows...

The long-term expected return for the Global Market Index (GMI) remains moderately below the index’s trailing realized 10-year performance through July, based on the average of three forecasting...

I have something interesting to share about the NASDAQ fund Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ:QQQ). Take a look at this long-term chart below. What I’ve done is anchor it to two extremes, as usual,...

The majority of the major asset classes rebounded in July, providing relief from an extended run of red ink, based on a set of proxy ETFs. The challenges that triggered widespread selling in global...

Preface to all ETF posts: Just a quick overview this weekend of some general categories. You know the drill: click on any chart for a larger, easier-to-see version. Perfect gap-fill Beautiful gap...