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The 3rd quarter was, unfortunately, the third consecutive quarter of lower ETF prices. Most of our ETFs had declines of 5%, plus or minus, which is not good but is a slowdown from the double digit declines of the second… Continue Reading →

Markets end another weak quarter near 2022 lows and generally down about 20% year to date. After ending the first quarter with half of our covered ETFs shifting to LT Downtrends we now end the second quarter with all but… Continue Reading →

After a couple of years of solid gains markets had a tough 2022 first quarter. Half of the ETFs we cover slipped into Long Term Downtrends after starting the year with all of them being in Long Term Uptrends. With… Continue Reading →

All of our ETFs spent the entirety of 2021 in Long Term Uptrends, and fortunately that proved to be the correct positioning. Now we move into 2022, after almost a two year recovery from the Covid induced market declines of… Continue Reading →

After starting the year with all of our ETFs having Red Arrows (negative long term trend) due to the markets collapse in the fourth quarter of 2018, a turnaround ensued. In the first quarter most of our ETFs returned to… Continue Reading →

The US markets “V” bottom has almost shown a complete recovery even as just about all other markets are only moving slowly higher. In the US Large Cap Growth and Technology ETF’s continue to perform better than Small Cap and… Continue Reading →

For a week every investor seemed to be headed for the exits. Then one day the masses decided that was the wrong decision and reversed course. Were they right to exit or are the stock markets the place to be… Continue Reading →

We certainly don’t need to tell any of our readers what a bad week it was ETF investors. All 11 of our Caution Arrows moved to Red and three of our Green Arrows went directly to Red, Downtrend, Arrows. Of… Continue Reading →

With the continuing slide in the markets we have now seen some of our U.S. ETFs change to Downtrends for the first time in over two and a half years. Small and Mid-Cap ETFs (IJR, IJH, IWM, MDY) are all… Continue Reading →

Many of the U.S. ETFs we follow have moved back to the caution Yellow Arrows. There are now Seven Yellow Arrows for our domestic ETFs. It’s once again important to monitor the Decline Limit Price.