[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] 1. Moving the Markets While December is usually a favorable month for publicly traded stocks, it is never an easy “sleigh ride” through the New Year. Snow has its soft and hard patches, but it’s allegedly all worth the ride as they say. The stock market took a stiff hit Monday as oil prices tumbled to …
ETFs/Mutual Funds On The Cutline – Updated Through 12/4/2015
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 110 (last week 120) are hovering in bullish territory. The second report includes only …
One Man’s Opinion: Will A Fed Rate Hike Be Positive For Equities?
At the upcoming December 15-16 FOMC meeting, Fed Chair Janet Yellen is likely to reiterate what she said at the Congressional testimony which is that the economy is expanding at a moderate pace and they made significant improvement in terms of reaching full-employment, said Michelle Meyer, deputy head of US economics at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Inflation is so …
New ETFs On The Block: IQ Leaders GTAA Tracker ETF (QGTA)
IndexIQ, the New York based asset manager that launched the world’s first liquid alternative exchange traded fund that replicated hedge fund strategies, recently unveiled another unique investment methodology to expand their offerings in the alternatives/multi-assets category. The newly launched IQ Leaders GTAA Tracker ETF (QGTA) aims to match the performance of leading global allocation mutual funds. QGTA tracks a proprietary …
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker Newsletter For December 4, 2015
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker StatSheet ————————————————————- THE LINK TO OUR CURRENT ETF/MUTUAL FUND STATSHEET IS: https://theetfbully.com/2015/12/weekly-statsheet-for-the-etfno-load-fund-tracker-newsletter-updated-through-12032015/ ———————————————————— Market Commentary MARKETS PLOW HIGHER HEADING INTO SECOND WEEK OF DECEMBER [Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] 1. Moving the Markets This week ended with a huge gain across the board. All major indexes gained more than 2% Friday to round out a very volatile …
Weekly StatSheet For The ETF/No Load Fund Tracker Newsletter – Updated Through 12/03/2015
ETF/Mutual Fund Data updated through Thursday, December 3, 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 11/13/2015 Our main directional indicator, the Domestic Trend Tracking Index (TTI-green line in above chart) has recently crawled above its long term trend line (red) …