Friday, May 6, 2011 WHACKING THE BULLS After last week’s strong rally, it was time for the bears to show some muscle and pull the major indexes back into reality territory. After 4 days of selling, euphoria about today’s better than expected jobs report pulled the market out of the doldrums via a sharp opening upside spike. I am not …
6 ETF Model Portfolios You Can Use – Updated through 6/7/2011
The markets sold off sharply since last week’s portfolio update and, as a result, our trailing sell stop for VB was triggered Monday, and the position was liquidated yesterday. Portfolios #1 and #4 were affected by this sale. There was a shift in YTD performance as the aggressive portfolio (#3) edged out #5 for the top spot. More importantly is …
Major Market ETFs Plunge During Last Hour
The markets did their best cliff dive imitation during the last hour of trading and surrendered all gains of what appeared to be a nice rebound. Causing the sudden change in sentiment were comments from Fed chairman Bernanke, during which he saw the recovery as uneven and also warned against a “sudden fiscal contraction” if spending would not be brought …
Mutual Funds On The Cutline – Updated as of 6/6/2011
With the sell off continuing, the cutline suddenly became very crowded by equity mutual funds, which dropped in from a level above the highest +20 reading. As a regular reader, you know that lately most of the funds, hovering slightly above and below their long-term trend line, were bond funds. That’s changed dramatically this week, as further market weakness pulled …
The Biggest Losing ETF Has Finally Made A Bottom
On several occasions, I have posted about the United States Natural Gas Fund (UNG) as having been the biggest losing ETF of the past few years. It recently broke its long-term trend line to the upside by +3.48%, while its momentum numbers have improved and are showing the following results: 4-wk: +8.45% 8-wk: +12.76% 12-wk: +14.71% YTD: -0.42% Performance for …
ETFs On The Cutline – Updated through 6/3/2011
With the market bulls getting the sledgehammer treatment last week, there obviously was more weakness than strength in the most current ETF Cutline report. As I mentioned before, when domestic markets succumb to bearish forces, at times selected county ETFs buck the trend and move higher, or at least hold their ground. That was the case last week as the …