The WSJ reports in “Mutual Funds Race to Join ETF Fray” (subscription required) that mutual fund companies are accelerating their efforts to join the spreading ETF movement: After watching the exchange traded fund industry streak past $1 trillion of assets recently, a host of mutual-fund companies are stepping up their efforts to get into the game—with a more active but …
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker For Friday, May 27, 2011
ETF/No Load Fund Tracker StatSheet ————————————————————- THE LINK TO OUR CURRENT ETF/MUTUAL FUND STATSHEET IS: https://theetfbully.com/2011/05/weekly-statsheet-for-the-etfno-load-fund-tracker-updated-through-5262011/ ———————————————————— Market Commentary Friday, May 27, 2011 AGAINST THE WIND It was a repeat performance of the prior week, as the markets started out to the downside on Monday and spent the last four trading days trying to climb back. In the case of …
Weekly StatSheet For The ETF/No Load Fund Tracker – Updated Through 5/26/2011
ETF/Mutual Fund Data updated through Thursday, May 26, 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 …
High Volume ETFs On The Cutline – Updated Through 5/25/2011
This past week’s pullback in the markets clearly affected the High Volume ETFs as well. To clarify, High Volume (HV) ETFs are defined as those with an average daily volume of $10 million or higher. These ETFs are generated from my selected list of 90 that I use in my advisor practice. It cuts out the “noise,” which simply means …
6 ETF Model Portfolios You Can Use – Updated through 5/24/2011
In another repeat performance, the market pullback continued during the past week and affected all of our portfolios. There were a few surprises. Our Trend Tracking Portfolio (#1) not only held up the best, it actually gained in the face of the selloff. This was followed closely by a lesser gain of the Aggressive Portfolio (#3), which now holds the …
Major Market ETFs Succumb To Bearish Pressures
In last Friday’s market commentary, I suggested that over-indebted countries like Greece, Ireland and Portugal, among others, can’t and eventually won’t pay back the burden of continuously shouldering the mother of all indebtedness. While the ECB and most governments are still in denial of that fact, anxiety surrounding the euro zone debt drama increased over the weekend and global markets …