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It was almost as if last week didn’t happen. None of our covered ETFs, with the sole exception of GLD, moved up or down more than 1% last week. In fact almost all of them were within 0.5% of where… Continue Reading →

“ETFs rise as equity market rallies” seems to be an obvious statement, and it is, but the reason we make that statement is because we had only two ETFs last week post loses (HEDJ and DXJ) and they were both… Continue Reading →

Even though it seemed all commentary last week was focused on the Federal Reserve and their continuation of easing monetary policy it was actually the foreign markets that had the best performance. Our Emerging Market ETFs (EEM, VWO) showed some… Continue Reading →

Last week domestic equity ETFs showed neither gains nor losses. Yes, they were flat on the week. Foreign ETFs did post slight losses but those were basically just rounding error. All of the foreign declines were less than 0.5 points… Continue Reading →

Our strategy had an excellent first half of the year as all of our ETFs were on Green Arrows (i.e. Long Term Uptrends) the entire first half, and all our ETFs posted gains. As shown in the second table below,… Continue Reading →

The ostensible technology ETF (QQQ) rose a little over 2% last week helping the overall domestic stock market (SPY, IVV and VOO) to be basically flat on the week. European markets (EFA, VEA, VGK and VEU) did not have the… Continue Reading →

The market was indeed confusing last week, but it’s always confusing. Despite the fact financial pundits would like to convince investors there are specific reasons for daily directional moves the reality is that what caused an increase or decrease on… Continue Reading →

The tech ETF (QQQ) was the big loser last week falling almost 2.5%. Just about all of that decline came Friday after a major brokerage firm said the leading tech stocks (i.e. the FANGs, Facebook, Apple, Netflix, and Google) had… Continue Reading →

Last week saw 1%-2% gains in almost all of our covered ETFs. Emerging Markets (EEM, VWO) were the exception as they were flat on the week. Japan (EWJ) showed particular strength rising 3% with the currency hedged Japan ETF (DXJ)… Continue Reading →

As is usually the case the markets on the week before a holiday. The gains were actually fairly decent with QQQ rising almost 2.5% and the S&P500 (SPY, IVV, VOO) up 1.5%. Emerging Markets joined the party rising 1% on… Continue Reading →