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Despite all the grumbling about trade wars we saw new highs for the tech ETF, QQQ, the growth ETFs, IWF, VUG, and the small cap ETF IJR. Our last Yellow Arrow also moved back to Green and all of our… Continue Reading →

A change for our arrows, to or from, yellow don’t really mean much. Although when they move from yellow to green it does mean you have to pay more attention to the ETF’s price, but that’s it. No action needs… Continue Reading →

Over the past few weeks we have been commenting about weakness we were seeing in our European and Emerging Market ETFs and that weakness has now led to some of them being within 5% of a trend change. Strangely the… Continue Reading →

Economic growth in Europe is slowing and that is responsible for the current price declines in our European ETFs. There is the obvious threat of trade wars but that is less significant than the general slowdown in economic growth. The… Continue Reading →

Emerging Market ETFs are not looking particularly healthy as they continue to post lower lows, seemingly on a monthly basis. However this lower low action could change at any time, and this technical analysis while followed by many investors, is… Continue Reading →

Many of our ETFs, especially U.S. focused, are once again approaching their highs for the year. Foreign markets are holding up but are still 5%-10% below their highs for the year. Still no Yellow, cautionary, Arrows.

Last week we reported on how we hadn’t had a trend change in any of our ETFs in over a year and a half. As one might guess during this period of rising markets these Long Term Positive Trends have… Continue Reading →

We can use “Status Quo” as the title for our comments this week because it has been over 18 months since our last rating change and no change looks imminent. Late summer of 2016 was when Europe became the last… Continue Reading →

Markets are still positively predisposed as they continue to “plod” along near recent highs. Particular strength is being shown by US small caps and the QQQs. Which are both pushing new highs. Emerging markets are not participating as much but… Continue Reading →

The earnings season continued on it’s path of solid reports and our ETFs respond positively, as we have been expecting. Adding a little comfort is the fact that the VIX has declined a significant amount recently showing there is strength… Continue Reading →