Recently, the WSJ (subscription required) featured a piece with the title “Unstable Condition.” Let’s look at a few highlights: Q: Are there ways an investor can protect against a rise in the market’s volatility—or even profit from it? A: Investors have endured a bumpy few years. The market tumbled in 2008, then rose sharply in the subsequent two years, leaving …
ETF Leaders And Laggards – For The Week Ending 6/24/2011
Here is a quick review of the past week’s winners and losers from my High Volume ETF Master list: Despite rallies and sell offs, there will always be some investment arenas that will resist the general trend of the market and head higher no matter what. Unfortunately, as we’ve seen in the past, this usually is a temporary phenomenon with …
A Dubious 3-Year Anniversary
Last Thursday, June 23, 2011, marked the 3-year anniversary of the effective date of our last domestic Sell signal. If you were a reader of this blog back then, you may recall that our Domestic TTI (Trend Tracking Index) had crossed its long-term trend line to the downside into bear market territory on 6/22/2008, thereby triggering a “Sell” the following …
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker For Friday, June 24, 2011
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker StatSheet ————————————————————- THE LINK TO OUR CURRENT ETF/MUTUAL FUND STATSHEET IS: https://theetfbully.com/2011/06/weekly-statsheet-for-the-etfno-load-fund-tracker-updated-through-6232011/ ———————————————————— Market Commentary Friday, June 24, 2011 ETFs HAULING SOUTH Yesterday’s late rebound, following an early morning sharp selloff, gave the bulls some hope that the bad news out of Greece, as well as economic worries, was a bit overblown. Today, the opposite happened, …
Major Market ETFs Manage A Turnround
By any measure, market activity looked pretty ugly this morning, as the major market ETFs opened sharply to the downside in what appeared to be the Bernanke hangover. In addition, worries about domestic and global economies were supporting the plunge. However, the S&P 500’s 200-day moving average again proved to be a springboard, as buyers started to come in and …
6 ETF Model Portfolios You Can Use – Updated through 6/21/2011
This week’s rebound helped 5 of our 6 ETF Model Portfolios to move higher, while the Income Portfolio (#5) retreated. That’s no surprise since its holdings were cut by 50% as two of the trailing sell stops were triggered during the recent slide. If momentum continues upward, I will re-instate these positions. This caused a changing of the guards in …