Nothing much happening with the exception of Emerging Markets and REITS, which were each down about 2%. Almost every other ETF was less than plus, or minus, 1/2%. Green continues to be the predominate color.

In a surprise to no one the Federal Reserve raised interest rates a quarter of a percent at its meeting last week. The Fed also signaled a possibility of three more rate hikes next year. Our equity ETFs didn’t react… Continue Reading →

OK, maybe that isn’t the real quote, but it’s applicable for our website so he should have said it. All of our ETF arrows are now green, meaning they are all in Long Term positive trends. In fact the majority… Continue Reading →

Despite the fact that small caps have surrendered some of their recent strong gains all of our monitored ETFs, with the exception of VNQ, are still solidly in long term uptrends.

The idea of a stronger domestic economy has propelled small caps and strengthened the dollar. The flip side to the stronger dollar has been weakness in the price of gold. So naturally GLD declined last week but that was our… Continue Reading →

With the exception of the foreign developed markets, and gold, just about all our covered ETFs moved higher last week. Once again small caps were the stars as investors are hoping for an improved domestic economy. Green is still far… Continue Reading →

Last week was a nice respite from the seemingly constant small declines of the past few weeks. Hopefully it will make it a little easier to feel comfortable with your investments. As might be expected the S&P Small Cap ETF… Continue Reading →

The gold ETF (GLD) was up a little over 2% last week while all the other 25 largest Equity ETFs were down about 2%. This seemingly constant market decline continues. But It is not as bad as the financial press… Continue Reading →

As bad as the markets have felt recently, thank you financial press, all but one of our ETFs (VNQ being the exception) are within 3% of their highs. This is not indicative of a weak market. It should be viewed… Continue Reading →

Two weeks ago there were minor losses across the board this week minor gains. So we’re slowly moving into Earnings Season with no real changes to our positive positions. There is something we want to caution or readers about. Each… Continue Reading →