With a record October for equities, despite Europe’s questionable financial state of affairs, domestic ETFs have become increasingly attractive, rising well above their long-term trend lines, sneaking into bullish territory. Whereas in the past couple weeks, I was limiting myself to selected sector ETFs, besides my established position in bond ETFs, the technicals warrant some domestic ETF exposure as well. …
Last Week In Review: ETF News And Blog Posts To 10/30/2011
In case you missed it, here’s a summary of the ETF topics and market reviews I posted to my blog during the week ending on 10/30/2011. The markets continued to feed on Europe’s mother of all debt deals designed to solve broad issues after a 50% haircut agreement was reached. However, worries persist, and rightfully so, that the execution of …
ETF Leaders And Laggards – For The Week Ending 10/28/2011
Here is a quick ETF review of the past week’s Leaders and Laggards from my High Volume ETF Master list: Leading the charge this week was last week’s Laggard, namely SLX, which moved from the dead last position into the first one. It’s interesting to note that all Leaders have shown huge gains over the last 5 trading days, yet …
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker Newsletter For Friday, October 28, 2011
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker StatSheet ————————————————————- THE LINK TO OUR CURRENT ETF/MUTUAL FUND STATSHEET IS: https://theetfbully.com/2011/10/weekly-statsheet-for-the-etfno-load-fund-tracker-newsletter-updated-through-10272011/ ———————————————————— Market Commentary Friday, October 28, 2011 AN UNEVENTFUL DAY, BUT AN ACTION PACKED WEEK FOR ETFS The markets seemed to be in TGIF mode today given the relatively low volume and overall flatness as the S&P 500 only went up 0.04%, although it …
Weekly StatSheet For The ETF/No Load Fund Tracker Newsletter – Updated Through 10/27/2011
ETF/Mutual Fund Data updated through Thursday, October 27, 2011 If you are not familiar with some of the terminology used, please see the Glossary of Terms. 1. DOMESTIC EQUITY MUTUAL FUNDS/ETFs: BUY — since 10/25/2011 The domestic TTI broke through its long-term trend line generating a Sell for this area effective 8/9/2011. Over the recent past, we’ve seen the …
Equity ETFs Surge, But Don’t Get Too Excited
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] With the perception that Europe has perhaps now avoided disaster, markets responded with jubilation. The S&P 500 rose 3.43% while other indices such as the FTSE, Nikkei, and Shanghai Composite also rose. Meanwhile, oil got a 4.00% pop while the 10-year Treasury climbed up to 2.40%, its highest yield since early August. Also, the dollar depreciated …