Every so often I talk about known and unknown uncertainties, and the power they have to derail markets, especially in today’s volatile environment. The latest uncertainty, which became known after the markets closed on Friday, was S&P’s downgrade of U.S. debt from its sterling AAA rating to AA+. While the possibility of a downgrade was not breaking news, the sudden …
Last Week In Review: ETF News And Blog Posts To 8/7/2011
In case you missed it, here’s a summary of the ETF topics that I posted to my blog during the week ending on 8/7/2011. Another sharp downside week pushed the major domestic indexes to the edge of slipping into bear market territory, according to my Domestic TTI. After Friday’s close, Standard & Poor’s announced the downgrade of U.S. debt from …
ETF Leaders And Laggards – For The Week Ending 8/5/2011
Here is a quick ETF review of the past week’s winners and losers from my High Volume ETF Master list: Some of last week’s contenders remained in the top spots, as a flight to safety continued to be the name of the game during the market drubbing of the past 5 trading days. We have now knifed through major support …
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker Newsletter For Friday, August 5, 2011
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker StatSheet ————————————————————- THE LINK TO OUR CURRENT ETF/MUTUAL FUND STATSHEET IS: https://theetfbully.com/2011/08/weekly-statsheet-for-the-etfno-load-fund-tracker-updated-through-842011/ ———————————————————— Market Commentary Friday, August 5, 2011 SELL-OFF TSUNAMI Volatility continued today as the Dow see-sawed from a plus 171 points to a minus 245 points, but ended up settling at +61. The other major market ETFs followed a similar pattern and, after it …
Weekly StatSheet For The ETF/No Load Fund Tracker – Updated Through 8/4/2011
ETF/Mutual Fund Data updated through Thursday, August 4, 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 6/3/2009 As announced via a blog post, on 6/2/2009, the TTI triggered a buy signal with an effective date of 6/3/2009. We will use the 7% trailing …
Weekly StatSheet Publication Delayed
Due to my data provider’s inability to have mutual fund closing prices available by 6 pm PST, I will delay the post and publish the StatSheet tomorrow morning. With the severe market selloff today, I’d rather wait, but have today’s prices included in the report. Look for it to be published by around 10:30 am PST on Friday.