Despite the markets closing fractionally higher from a week ago, more slippage and juggling around the cutline was evident. The position improvements were minor with heavyweight TMW (Wilshire 5000) inching back to +4 from last week’s -3. VTI (Total Market Index) dropped in from a level above +20 and slipped below its line to a -4 position. VUG (Vanguard Growth) …
Last Week In Review: ETF News And Blog Posts
In case you missed it, here’s a summary of the ETF topics that I posted to my blog during the week ending on 6/26/2011. With market volatility continuing to take center stage, anything is possible. If the S&P 500’s 200-day moving average gets decisively broken to the downside, watch out, because our Domestic TTI is likely to follow. Stay tuned …
Sunday Musings: Still Not Getting It
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, …