Andrew Crowder submits: A few days ago I mentioned the potential for a trade in the Materials sector (XLB) as it had pushed into a “very overbought” extreme. Wednesday, I finally placed the trade in my High-Probability, Mean-Reversion strategy as XLB hit a reading of 99.3. Again, I am taking advantage of a short-term overbought [...]
Dan Pritch submits: The top ETFs of 2010 hail from several different asset classes and strategies. Since leveraged ETFs tend to benefit tremendously from sustained trends but make for poor long-term investments in volatile markets, I’ve included both conventional non-leveraged ETFs as well as leveraged ETFs. As of December 30, 2010, here are the best [...]
Morningstar submits: By Abraham Ballin As 2010 draws to a close, shrewd investors are making note of their tax circumstances. While Santa has come and gone, another fanciful visitor is due, the Grinch Internal Revenue Service. With regret, we break the spirit of the season with refrains of the benefits of tax-loss harvesting to maximize [...]
Kapitall submits: The following is a list of healthcare ETFs that have seen significant institutional outflows over the last three months. To compile the list, we started with a universe of about 50 healthcare ETFs. We then collected data on institutional flows, and narrowed down the list to focus on the 8 funds that have [...]
In case you know the pitfalls of trad¬ing, it is possible to simply steer clear of them. Little faults are inevitable, such as entering the incorrect inventory symbol or incorrectly setting a acquire degree. But these are forgivable, and, with luck, even profitable. What you might have to prevent, nonetheless, are the errors as a [...]
Selecting excellent stocks is only the initial step to grow to be a consistently lucrative trader. Those of you that track the performances of stock picks I post on http://www.cisiova.com/analysis.asp realize that it’s not possible to determine if a stock options is good without having an excellent exiting technique. And for most traders, exit method [...]
Michael Johnston submits: Wednesday was yet another slow day on Wall Street, with below average trading volumes and a lack of meaningful data releases or earnings report failing to give stocks much direction. Major U.S. indexes managed to squeeze out modest gains, as the S&P 500, Dow, and NASDAQ all finished the mid-week session session [...]
Paul Frank submits: Paul M. Frank is the president of Aviemore Asset Management, LLC, and the portfolio manager of the ETF Market Opportunity Fund (ETFOX), which has earned five stars from Morningstar for three-year, five-year and overall performance. ETFOX currently has nearly $56 million in assets under management. Seeking Alpha’s Jonathan Liss recently spoke with [...]
Roger Nusbaum submits: Yesterday CNBC’s show Power Lunch had a segment about ETFs that started with a snippet of Jack Bogle saying, "They’ve corrupted [ETFs] into a trading business. You can trade all day long in real time … to which I would ask, ‘What kind of a nut would want to do that?’" Um [...]
Jarred Cummans submits: This past year the ETF industry picked up steam, as total assets in exchange-traded products reached $1 trillion for the first time. As ETFs continued their impressive growth, issuers have continued to provide innovative products to the market in order to meet ever-increasing demand. This past year saw the inception of a [...]
