It didn’t take long to uncover a quick ditty on the importance of 50-Day Moving Averages (MAs) to the investment community. In fact, no sooner did I opine on flashing yellow lights from Small-Cap ETFs, did I find intriguing factoids from the Bespoke Investment Group. Specifically, Bespoke notes that both financial stocks and energy stocks have a mere 1/3 of their sector constituents above [...] Continue Reading...
Nobody has ever predicted the future with consistency; yet, that has never stopped investors, speculators or economists from trying. Perhaps the most common forecasting endeavor for market enthusiasts is the identification of price trends. Simply stated, millions of individuals as well as major institutions make financial decisions based upon where the price of a given security [...] Continue Reading...
On most of the trading days in 2009, it’s been a simple correlation: Dollar up… stock market down; dollar down… stock market up. It’s been as easy as betting on the devaluation of the U.S. currency. Since oil is priced in U.S. dollars, you find a very similar phenomenon: Dollar up… price ber barrel down; dollar [...] Continue Reading...
Gold ETF, Gold Minders ETFs Click here to listen to the show: 11-29-09 Continue Reading...
Volume might be light on the day before Thanksgiving. Yet a record low for the PowerShares U.S. Dollar Bullish Fund (UUP) is still a record low. In mid-July 2008, UUP closed at a price point of 22.27. U.S. dollar devaluation coincided with the peak of the commodity bubble, particularly in oil. The spot price of crude [...] Continue Reading...
In the 70’s, many advisers recommended blue chip holdings in the U.S. They were called the “Nifty 50,” and they were viewed by many pros as the only stocks an investor required. Fast forward to 2009, and you won’t hear a heck of a lot about nifty U.S stocks. Yet in India, a popular index (National [...] Continue Reading...
Frontier Market Investing, Alt Energy Investing. Click here to listen to the show: 11-25-09 Continue Reading...
A “strong” euro-dollar may be bad for Old Europe’s economic positioning. Yet, one would expect currency strength to help companies earning euro-based profits. (And by extension… currency strength would benefit international investors.) While the projections for Euro-area GDP growth for 2010 may be less than the projections for North America, South America or Asia, neither the Germans nor [...] Continue Reading...
Maybe it’s coming… maybe it’s not. Yet the give and take between the bears and the bulls has led many writers to talk about “Downturn ETFs.” Also, do ETN+ Notes make sense for exchange-traded investing enthusiasts? ETFs For A Downturn - Fool.com ETF Bargain Hunting: Low P/E Ratio ETFs - Michael Johnston, ETF Database Barclays Capital ETN+ Notes: Cool … [...] Continue Reading...
Perhaps you are looking for a bargain near the market’s 52-week highs. Or maybe you’re preparing to make a purchase on the next tangible pullback. Well, then, you might choose to avoid investments that are more volatile than a global stock benchmark. And you definitely want to jettison the idea of picking up an ETF that’s below a [...] Continue Reading...
