While equity ETFs have displayed some impressive form this year, they have certainly hit some rough patches in the last few years and perhaps may again in the near future. Having a sizeable fixed income ETF allocation is certainly a prudent way to minimize your risk exposure, especially if you have equities and bonds spread across various asset classes. But …
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker Newsletter For Friday, February 10, 2012
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker StatSheet ————————————————————- THE LINK TO OUR CURRENT ETF/MUTUAL FUND STATSHEET IS: https://theetfbully.com/2012/02/weekly-statsheet-for-the-etfno-load-fund-tracker-newsletter-updated-through-02092012/ ———————————————————— Market Commentary Friday, February 10, 2012 MAJOR MARKET ETFS FINALLY HIT THE RED After several days of gains, markets finally dropped, with the S&P 500 falling a modest 0.69%. European and Asian indices were more substantially in the red. In commodities, oil and …
Weekly StatSheet For The ETF/No Load Fund Tracker Newsletter – Updated Through 02/09/2012
ETF/Mutual Fund Data updated through Thursday, February 9, 2012 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 …
Greek Deal Or No Deal: What’s Next For ETFs?
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] With Greece making headway in its bailout deal today, the S&P 500 had a minor gain of 0.15% while European markets finished on the upside. The Euro also edged up to $1.33/Euro. And once again, the 10-year Treasury breached the 2% level, finishing at a yield of 2.05%. It looks like the Greek news tempered investor …
Low Volatility Continues for ETFs
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Markets moved forward once again as the S&P 500 rose 0.22%. Nevertheless, European markets erred to the downside. While it seems like markets have discounted the Greek situation, there’s no promise that market price stability will persist. Overall, there wasn’t much volatility across U.S. indices, currencies, Treasuries, or commodities today. The VIX went up over 2%, …
7 ETF Model Portfolios You Can Use – Updated through 2/7/2012
January’s upward momentum continued into February, as the S&P 500 jumped some 2.6% since last week’s ETF Model Portfolio report. All models moved higher as well with 3 of them (#3, #4, #5) outperforming the index on a YTD basis. While that is nice, it is not nearly as important as having some kind of diversification for that moment when …