Not A Horrible Day In The Market, But No Real Sunshine

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[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] 1. Moving the Markets The stock market closed mixed on Monday, a welcome respite from what has been the worst start to a year ever on Wall Street, though the plunge in oil continued and sent crude prices to levels last seen in 2003. Stocks initially shrugged off more turbulence in the mainland China stock market …

ETFs/Mutual Funds On The Cutline – Updated Through 01/08/2016

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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 18 (last week 56) are hovering in bullish territory. The second report includes only …

One Man’s Opinion: Are Financials The Cheapest Among Cyclical Stocks In The Market?

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US equities are expected to give single-digit returns this year though the initial days look a little bad, said Bob Doll of Nuveen Asset Management. The current market turmoil looks a lot like August last year with plenty of similarities. China authorities did some things then, and they will do some things now (to calm the markets). Chinese policy makers …

New ETFs On The Block: First Trust SSI Strategic Convertible Securities ETF (FCVT)

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While the debate among market participants rages about the frequency of rate increases in 2016, investors worried about capital protection may consider an industry first fixed-income product product since not all bonds would get hammered with the gradual normalization of interest rates. Case in point: convertible bonds that could potentially offer higher total returns as they allow meaningful participation in …

ETF/No Load Fund Tracker Newsletter For January 8, 2016

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ETF/No Load Fund Tracker StatSheet ————————————————————- THE LINK TO OUR CURRENT ETF/MUTUAL FUND STATSHEET IS: https://theetfbully.com/2016/01/weekly-statsheet-for-the-etfno-load-fund-tracker-newsletter-updated-through-01072016/ ———————————————————— Market Commentary MARKETS MELT DOWN IN WORST EVER FIRST WEEK TO START THE YEAR   [Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] 1. Moving the Markets One look at the above chart shows the extent to which the bulls got slaughtered this week as the U.S. …

Weekly StatSheet For The ETF/No Load Fund Tracker Newsletter – Updated Through 01/07/2016

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ETF/Mutual Fund Data updated through Thursday, January 07, 2016 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) …