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Market Commentary
STOCKS LOWER FRIDAY, BUT NOT TO OVERSHADOW PROFITABLE MONTH OF MAY
1. Moving the Markets
Stocks fell Friday; the major indexes posted weekly losses as weaker economic data weighed on markets. But equities still notched gains for the month, with the Nasdaq getting a 2.6% boost while the Dow and S&P 500 climbed 1% each. On the week, nine of the ten S&P sectors were lower with industrials and financials posting the largest losses. Only energy stocks were higher as oil prices jumped as U.S. supplies declined more than expected. U.S. benchmark crude rose about 3% to $59.65 a barrel.
To recap major M&A news this week, Charter Communications (CHTR) has agreed to buy Time Warner Cable (TWC) for $55 billion in cash and stock, valuing the company at $78.7 billion, including debt. The deal would combine the second- and third-largest US cable companies to better compete against the market leader Comcast, and has raised the scrutiny of the Federal Communications Commission. We also heard that Singapore’s Avago Technologies (AVGO) will buy California-based Broadcom (BRCM), creating the world’s sixth largest chipmaker by revenue in the industry’s largest acquisition.
It will be interesting to see, as we head into June, if the indexes can continue upward on a monthly basis. Next week, we will hear some economic data that could move markets, notable the ISM manufacturing PMI for the U.S. and the European Union reports preliminary Q1 GDP growth on Friday, June 5th.
All of our 10 ETFs in the Spotlight retreated today with Healthcare (XLV) holding up best with a small loss of 0.25%, while the Financials (IYF) fared the worst by surrendering 0.88%.
2. ETFs in the Spotlight
In case you missed the announcement and description of this section, you can read it here again.
It features 10 broadly diversified ETFs from my HighVolume list as posted every Monday. Furthermore, they are screened for the lowest MaxDD% number meaning they have been showing better resistance to temporary sell offs than all others over the past year.
Here are the 10 candidates:
The above table simply demonstrates the magnitude with which some of the ETFs are fluctuating in regards to their positions above or below their respective individual trend lines (%M/A). A break below, represented by a negative number, shows weakness, while a break above, represented by a positive percentage, shows strength.
For hundreds of ETF/Mutual fund choices, be sure to reference Thursday’s StatSheet.
Year to date, here’s how the above candidates have fared so far:
Again, the first table above shows the position of the various ETFs in relation to their respective long term trend lines (%M/A), while the second one tracks their trailing sell stops in the “Off High” column. The “Action” column will signal a “Sell” once the -7.5% point has been taken out in the “Off High” column.
3. Trend Tracking Indexes (TTIs)
Our Trend Tracking Indexes (TTIs) pulled back but remain firmly in bullish territory:
Domestic TTI: +2.27% (last Friday +2.77%)—Buy signal effective 10/22/2014
International TTI: +4.07% (last Friday +5.25%)—Buy signal effective 2/13/2015
Have a nice weekend.
Ulli…
Disclosure: I am obliged to inform you that I, as well as advisory clients of mine, own some of these listed ETFs. Furthermore, they do not represent a specific investment recommendation for you, they merely show which ETFs from the universe I track are falling within the guidelines specified.
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READER Q & A FOR THE WEEK
Reader Ed:
Q: Ulli: I’m just wondering how you place your trailing stop orders. I had a weird thing happen to me yesterday. I had a 7% trailing stop loss on IPGP on the bid. It has been trading around $95.00. The trigger price for the stop was $ 90.09, but I was stopped out @ $95.17.
I called Fidelity; they researched it & told me there were a couple of bids in before the opening at approx. my stop price of $90.09. This triggered the stop and Fidelity routed it to the best price… which was $95.17. They said it was unusual but it sometimes happens… The problem is I still want to be in the stock.
My question: Should I place my trailing stop losses on the last price instead of the bid? All of my ETFs have trailing stop losses on the bid which I thought was the correct way to do it. I have changed some of my stock stop losses to last price since this happened. I’d appreciate any advice.
A: Ed: It’s nice to hear from you. 7% stops on stocks don’t work well due to the volatility. I only use the 7% rule on ETFs/Mutual funds. Personally, I don’t put in the stop ahead of time (I track it on my spreadsheet), because I only use day ending prices to avoid what happened to you, namely market manipulation and/or front running by the HFTs. If my stop has been triggered based on the day-ending price, only then will I enter the “sell” the next day as a limit order.
When using day ending prices for stops, you may get stopped out at worse price, but I am not interested in intra-day fluctuations but only how the markets end up once trading is over. That way I can better determine if the long-term trend, the basis for Trend Tracking, remains intact or not.
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