Despite a nice start to the upside, the major markets ETFs got stuck stuck and went nowhere after meandering around the unchanged line all day. In accordance with our sell stop discipline, we sold VEU, which affected several of our model portfolios, as you will see with the next report due out on Wednesday. A few selected mutual funds were …
Last Week’s Lessons: ETF News And Blog Posts
In case you missed it, here’s a summary of the topics that I posted to my blog during week ending on 6/12/2011. Continued downward momentum pushed our International Trend Tracking Index (TTI) to the verge of a sell signal. Stay tuned for the latest blog updates as the new week gets underway. My published Cutline tables and Model ETF Portfolios …
Sunday Musings: ETFs In Outer Space
This is more of a personal story than one about hard hitting ETF facts. You may have followed the current space flight, which left earth on June 7 from Kazakhstan. The spacecraft Soyuz was launched with 3 astronauts, a Russian, a Japanese and an American by the name of Mike Fossum. The mission is to rendezvous with the space station …
ETF Leaders And Laggards – For The Week Ending 6/10/2011
Here is a quick review of the past week’s winners and losers from my High Volume ETF Master list: Despite selling momentum continuing, there are always some ETFs, which buck the trend. This week, the winner was Russia and the loser was the Gold Miners. However, pressure remained in all areas, which makes this not the time to be a …
Which Investment ‘Style’ Will Give You The Best Returns?
A few days ago, MarketWatch featured an interesting research project titled “Wall Street’s Biggest Secret,” which showed some fascinating results. Let’s look at some highlights: Wall Street has a wide array of mutual funds it wants to sell you. “Absolute return” this. “Midcap blend” that. “Small-cap growth” whatever. Many brokers, advisers and salesmen will tell you that just the right …
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker For Friday, June 10, 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-6092011/ ———————————————————— Market Commentary Friday, June 10, 2011 MAJOR MARKET ETFs IN RETREAT – NO PLACE TO HIDE The market’s stumble into June continued all week and was only interrupted by a short pause on Thursday, when a rebound attempt gave the bulls some hope. …