Many people like to travel to places like Las Vegas for life changing experiences or to live on the edge—at least for a few days. If you have that tendency as well, you were in luck this week. All you had to do is turn on the financial markets and you would have gotten more than your monies worth of …
No Load Fund/ETF Technical Analysis: The Gap Is Closed
In a previous post, I had mentioned the fact that breakaway gaps, that occur on charts as a result of overly confident investing behavior, will be always be closed. That simply means a market pullback will correct prices to the downside. Here’s an enlarged version of the Trend Tracking Index (TTI) chart: You will note that the gap (red arrow), …
Special No Load Fund/ETF Tracker Update For 8/15/2007: Sell International Funds/ETFs
Yesterday’s sell off continued today in the face of a rally attempt that ended up giving the bears the upper hand. As of today, the Trend Tracking Indexes (TTIs) are positioned in regards to their long-term trend lines as follows: Domestic TTI: -0.10%International TTI: -1.30% The domestic TTI barely crossed to the downside, so the risk of a reversal back …
Mutual Fund/ETF Investing: Learning From The Past
Motley Fool featured a variety of topics in last week’s “Weekly Fund Wrap-Up.” One of them addressed Janus Capital’s recent financial comeback. It hasn’t been front page news but Janus had suffered years of fund outflows after investors left in droves. Why? During the bear market, Janus was hit hard with losing billions of dollars in assets. To be clear, …
Special No Load Fund/ETF Tracker Update For 8/14/2007
Another steep sell off has moved our Trend Tracking Indexes (TTIs) within striking distance of an all out Sell signal. As of today, the TTIs are positioned in regards to their long-term trend lines as follows: Domestic TTI: +0.87%International TTI: +0.34% Over the past few weeks, I have been liquidating those holdings that have triggered our sell stop points, and …
No Load Mutual Fund/ETF Investing: Staying With The Top Performers
A recent article in the WSJ talked about the fact that larger stocks are finally starting to take the lead in regards to performance when compared to small cap stocks. “Megacaps,” with a stock market value of at least $50 billion, have picked up speed this year through July. For that period, the Russell 1000 Index, which includes the largest …