Category Uncategorized

Is it a bad sign when earnings come in better than expected and markets don’t rise? It could be, after all we are also at the beginning of the Halloween Indicator (“Sell in May and Go Away”), a universal phenomenon,… Continue Reading →

Despite all the dramatic day to day turmoil in the markets all but two of our ETFs are still within 5% of their highs. That’s right, almost all markets are only 5% off their highs, and that’s where we were… Continue Reading →

S&P500 earnings growth in the 1st quarter looks like it will be about 18% with revenue growth coming in around 7.5%. A higher net (i.e. after tax) profit margin is a significant contributor to the higher earnings. A higher net… Continue Reading →

Short term market moves are not something we pay much attention to but given all the negative sentiment out there we felt it important to remind investors that the markets we actually UP last week. ALL of the markets we… Continue Reading →

We understand if investors have developed a dismal feeling about the markets in the past month or so. It seems as if the only direction the markets understand is down. Yet given all the investor negativity almost all of our… Continue Reading →

Our “growth” ETFs (e.g. QQQ, IWF, VUG, EEM, VWO) rose between 1% and 3% in the first quarter. Most of this positive performance was due to the very strong gains early in the year not being completely consumed by the… Continue Reading →

For the first time in almost 2 years the S&P 500 is only a couple of points away from its 200 Day Moving Average. This should not be significant, yet it is likely to get market pundits talking as many… Continue Reading →

Washington appears to be in disarray and the economy may, or may not, be improving, but all of our ETFs continue to be in Long Term Uptrends and are only about 3%-5% from their highs. This might not be what… Continue Reading →

Showing resilience markets returned to their upward moves with the QQQ’s even closing at record highs. Most other markets are not far from their record highs and would once again require double digit declines to move from their Long Term… Continue Reading →

Despite the weakness in the markets the past couple of weeks almost all of our covered ETFs are only down about 5% from their recent highs. Although the way the press is running stories on the markets declines it seems… Continue Reading →