Markets Keep Climbing On Columbus Day

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[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] 1. Moving the Markets The Dow Jones industrial average, coming off its biggest weekly gain since February, ended modestly higher to post its seventh-straight session of gains as Wall Street awaited the barrage of corporate earnings reports, which begin tomorrow. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq both performed well today also. The question remains: “Is this a …

ETFs/Mutual Funds On The Cutline – Updated Through 10/9/2015

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Below are the latest ETF Cutline reports, which show how far above or below their respective long-term trend lines (39 week SMA) my currently tracked ETFs/MFs are positioned. The first report covers the ETF Master List from Thursday’s StatSheet and includes 381 ETFs, of which currently 41 (last week 18) are hovering in bullish territory. The second report includes only …

One Man’s Opinion: Will Consumer Discretionaries Lead In Earnings Growth In Q3?

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The S&P 500, according to Estimize, is likely to see a negative earnings growth of 2-1/2 percent and revenues growth of negative 1.7 percent. In the last quarter, earnings growth expectations were 3.5 percent, but it ended up with about 1 percent. The peak-rate currently stands at about 66 percent for about 22 companies that have reported third-quarter results and …

New ETFs On The Block: Vanguard Tax-Exempt Bond Index Fund (VTEB)

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Going by recent trends, about 200 new exchange-traded funds are launched in an average year. Vanguard, the second largest US ETF issuer after Blackrock’s iShares, however, remains conspicuously absent at most times despite managing $3.3 trillion in global assets. Not any more after the Penn-based asset manager decided to break its long hiatus of more than two years with the …

ETF/No Load Fund Tracker Newsletter For October 9, 2015

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ETF/No Load Fund Tracker StatSheet ————————————————————- THE LINK TO OUR CURRENT ETF/MUTUAL FUND STATSHEET IS: https://theetfbully.com/2015/10/weekly-statsheet-for-the-etfno-load-fund-tracker-newsletter-updated-through-10082015/ ———————————————————— Market Commentary MARKETS FULL STEAM AHEAD TO ROUND OUT RALLY [Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] 1. Moving the Markets The Dow extended its recent rally to six sessions as stocks keep heading higher following the release of minutes of the Fed’s meeting last month …

Weekly StatSheet For The ETF/No Load Fund Tracker Newsletter – Updated Through 10/08/2015

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ETF/Mutual Fund Data updated through Thursday, October 8, 2015 If you are not familiar with some of the terminology used, please see the Glossary of Terms.   1. DOMESTIC EQUITY MUTUAL FUNDS/ETFs: SELL — since 8/24/2015 Our main directional indicator, the Domestic Trend Tracking Index (TTI), broke through its long-term trend line generating a “Sell” for this arena effective 10/14/2014, …