[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets An early rebound attempt ran out of steam as the Fed paraded a couple of their mouthpieces, who managed to spew some words of hawkishness to undermine any positive market momentum. First it was Fed’s Harker, who caused some worries with announcing that we “can’t rule out more than 3 hikes this year,” …
ETFs On The Cutline – Updated Through 03/17/2017
Below please find the latest High Volume ETFs Cutline report, which shows how far above or below their respective long-term trend lines (39 week SMA) my currently tracked ETFs are positioned. This report covers the HV ETF Master List from Thursday’s StatSheet and includes 366 High Volume ETFs ETFs, defined as those with an average daily volume of more than …
ETF Tracker Newsletter For March 17, 2017
ETF Tracker StatSheet https://theetfbully.com/2017/03/weekly-statsheet-etf-tracker-newsletter-updated-03162017/ EQUITIES DIP AND DOLLAR PLUNGES [Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets Stocks dipped slightly today but managed to squeeze out a gain for the week with the S&P 500 adding 5 points or 0.2%, which is not a particularly noteworthy performance but, given the uncertainty in Europe along with the Fed’s move on interest rates, …
Weekly StatSheet For The ETF Tracker Newsletter – Updated Through 03/16/2017
ETF Data updated through Thursday, March 16, 2017 Methodology/Use of this StatSheet: From the universe of over 1,800 ETFs, I have selected only those with a trading volume of over $5 million per day (HV ETFs), so that liquidity and a small bid/ask spread are assured. Trend Tracking Indexes (TTIs) Buy or Sell decisions for Domestic and International ETFs (section …
Equities Edge Down As Gold Jumps
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets After yesterday’s “good news” by the Fed that interest rates will be hiked, which produced a nice rally, today’s action was range bound as the major indexes hovered close to the unchanged line with only the Nasdaq eking out a meager +0.01% gain. To get upward momentum soaring again, we need more news …
Fed Raises Rates Despite Weakening GDP
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets You’d think that, as we’ve seen in the past, that a rate hike would cause the dollar to rally, but you would have been wrong. Instead, the greenback got absolutely hammered (see chart below) and lost -1.22% as the Fed stepped in and hiked interest rates by an expected 0.25%. That hike came …