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The markets continue to move higher and we remain positively predisposed. At some point this will end but no one knows when that’s going to happen so why not just sit back, relax, and enjoy this while it last. Don’t… Continue Reading →

All but one of our ETFs posted gains in the third quarter with most gains being in the 3%-5% range. The lone decliner was iShares US Preferred Stocks (PFF). As one might expect this ETF trades more like a bond ETF… Continue Reading →

Despite continuing tension with North Korea, two more hurricanes, a major earthquake in Mexico, and the Federal Reserve announcing they will start selling off some of the bonds they purchased to support the economy our indicators are still leading us… Continue Reading →

All of our covered equity ETFs continued the rising trends they’ve shown all year. Almost all of them had gains greater than 1% last week with the smaller capitalization focused ETFs showing gains over 2%. Our only ETF that had… Continue Reading →

The shining lights last week were European focused ETFs as EFA and VEA rose 0.8%. US focused ETFs stumbled as the two major storms striking the US are likely to put a damper on economic growth. At least in the… Continue Reading →

All of our ETFs rose this past week with domestic issues showing particular strength. And since all of our ETFs are on Green Arrows, as they have been all year, there are no changes to our Long Term positive bent…. Continue Reading →

All our covered ETFs, with the sole exception of EWJ (Japan), rose last week, and EWJ was basically flat with a decline of less than 0.2%. There were no significant changes so all of our ETFs still have Green Arrows,… Continue Reading →

Perusing media we are led to be believe that just about all the news is negative and is leading to terrible results in the stock market. There is in fact a lot of bad news out there but it is… Continue Reading →

Recently we have been in a period of extraordinarily low volatility. We don’t know if this is the end of the period, or not, but we do know at some point this extremely low volatility period will end. When this… Continue Reading →

Foreign ETFs were our best performing ETFs last week. European ETFs (VGK, EFA, and HEDJ) rose 1.3%, 1.0%, and 1.0% respectively. Other foreign ETFs, both Developed and Emerging Markets ( VEU, VEA, VWO and EEM) posted gains of between 0.5%… Continue Reading →