Last week most of our ETFs were down a little, with small and mid cap ETFs down about 1.5%-2%. Gold (GLD) was down a little over 2%. The big loser last week was the REIT ETF (VNQ). This was mainly… Continue Reading →

The “Trump” (economic optimism) rally slowed some last week as investors seem to be convinced the Federal Reserve will hike rates at its coming meeting March 14-15 and this hike will not get a good reaction from the equity markets…. Continue Reading →

Just about all our covered ETFs rose 1%, plus or minus a small amount. The exceptions were small caps (IWM and IJR) which both posted slight, less than 0.5%, losses and Europe (EFA, VGK, VEA, VEU), which had similar losses…. Continue Reading →

Everyone seems to be trying to predict when the short term rally that started after the election will end. Very few professional investors predicted the rally, yet now we are supposed to listen to them telling us when it will… Continue Reading →

All but one of our covered ETFs rose last week with most showing gains around 1%. Europe was the only area to exhibit any weakness as VGK (Vanguard FTSE Europe) declined a slight -0.4% and EFA (iShares MSCI EAFE) and… Continue Reading →

All but two of our covered ETFs moved less than 1% last week. The two are GLD (Gold), which rose 2.3% and DXJ (Japan Currency Hedged) down 1.4%. With all these small moves nothing has changed with regard to the… Continue Reading →

While most of our covered ETFs declined those declines were relatively minor, down less than 1%. The exceptions, but not by much, were the small cap ETFs, IWM and IJR. These two led the decliners but were each down just… Continue Reading →

GLD, EEM, VWO, VEA and VEU are ETFs we follow that gained more than 1% last week as the US dollar slipped a bit from its recent run higher making each of these more valuable. QQQ also gained 1%. If… Continue Reading →

All our ETFs posted good gains last week webpage. (What’s a bad gain?) Showing even more strength than the average index the S&P 500 and NASDAQ both posted record highs. Foreign markets, while no where near new highs, did continue… Continue Reading →

All our ETFs ended the year in Long Term Uptrends. Showing how much strength they have had all but two of them are more than 10% away from a trend change. During the year our system did signal a number of… Continue Reading →