That’s an interesting question indeed, and Seeking Alpha tried to cover some ‘dos’ and ‘don’ts’ via “An ETF Primer for Retirees and Conservative Investors.” Here are some highlights, but I suggest you read the entire article if that topic is of interest to you: Over the past few years, exchange-traded funds have made a big impact on the 80-year-old mutual …
ETF Leaders And Laggards – For The Week Ending 7/15/2011
Here is a quick ETF review of the past week’s winners and losers from my High Volume ETF Master list: Equities got slapped around this past week with the S&P 500 giving back 2.1%. Shining brightly were gold related ETFs along with Natural Gas. As you can see, gold had a super week by adding +3.29% on top of the …
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker For Friday, July 15, 2011
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker StatSheet ————————————————————- THE LINK TO OUR CURRENT ETF/MUTUAL FUND STATSHEET IS: https://theetfbully.com/2011/07/weekly-statsheet-for-the-etfno-load-fund-tracker-updated-through-7142011/ ———————————————————— Market Commentary Friday, July 15, 2011 AGAINST THE WIND The major market ETFs simply faced too many headwinds and, as a result, the S&P 500 lost 2.1% for the week after two weeks of gains. No matter where you looked, the news was …
Weekly StatSheet For The ETF/No Load Fund Tracker – Updated Through 7/14/2011
ETF/Mutual Fund Data updated through Thursday, July 14, 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 …
International Trend Tracking Index (TTI) Remains In Sell Mode
After bouncing around its long-term trend line for the past couple of weeks, the International TTI (Trend Tracking Index) finally fell back below it by -0.88%. As I wrote previously, I had been holding back issuing a new ‘Buy’ for “broadly diversified international funds/ETFs” due to lack of follow through to the upside. The goal was to avoid a whipsaw …
ETFs On The Cutline – Updated through 7/8/2011 – Upcoming Improvements
Last week’s rally attempt in anticipation of a super jobs report ran into resistance as the horrific unemployment numbers had Wall Street traders trying to put some lipstick on that pig. The ensuing sell off was modest at best, and the major indexes ended up gaining slightly for the week. Trend direction was predominantly sideways, which means not much happened …