The vast majority of our ETFs declined slightly last week, one percent or less. The only ETF that rose, albeit a small rise, was VNQ. The previous week it had moved to within 5% of changing to a Long Term… Continue Reading →

Over the past few weeks (months?) investors have attributed the ups and downs of the markets to a number of events, all of which, or none of which, may have been responsible for the trading activity. Now we are entering… Continue Reading →

The daily volatility has increased significantly lately but when you look at the weekly price changes it’s more of the same, small changes. Very few of our ETFs showed even a 0.5% change for the week. Now that the Fed… Continue Reading →

Even with the concerns investors have exhibited recently all the ETFs we follow showed gains last week, most in the 1%-2% range. The markets continue to act much better than most investors expect, and since we follow stock price moves,… Continue Reading →

The markets stabilized last week after the Friday sell-off the previous week. We didn’t think the sell-off  was anything to panic about and, so far, it’s turned out not to be. Most of our ETFs posted small gains last week… Continue Reading →

Most of our covered ETFs declined about 2% on Friday. This comes off of all time highs for just about every one of these ETFs. What this means is that they would have to fall about 12% more for their… Continue Reading →

The Fed. Will they or won’t they raise rates? This question, and it’s seemingly daily fluctuation from yes, to no, to yes, to no, is not as important to us as the media wants it to be, and fortunately the… Continue Reading →

Of the 20 ETFs we follow, few are on a long-term downtrend. Only the Vanguard FTSE Europe (VGK), WisdomTree Europe Hedged Equity (HEDJ), and Japan Hedged Equity Fund (DXJ) aren’t quite yet at a high enough price for investment comfort…. Continue Reading →