With the stock market under pressure and the S&P 500 ETF near it’s lows for the year it seems like a good time to take a look at the various sectors of the market in a search for value. The energy sector has been absolutely pummeled the past couple weeks so having been stopped out [...]
With stock market volatility (as measured by the VIX) trading at the bottom end of the range, many investors are looking to volatility ETFs for protection as well as profit. After all, if the market does get “shocked” from this level of complacency the VIX can shoot up 40-50% overnight! This is why so many [...]
If you are bullish on the U.S. Stock Market, you may want to consider investing in the Nasdaq 100 instead of the standard benchmark S&P 500. Looking back at the past 23 years of data the Nasdaq 100 has consistently outperformed the S&P 500 by a wide margin. The only time frame where this doesn’t [...]
ETF assets continued their strong growth trend in 2010 with several categories posting gains in excess of 25%. The Commodity ETF category led the charge up a whopping 41%, followed by International Equities up 31.6%, Fixed Income up 29.2% and U.S. Equities up 23.3%. By the end of 2010 there were approximately 1100 ETFs listed [...]
I recently pulled up a chart of the Nasdaq QQQQ index just to see where we are in the long term scheme of things. It was interesting to see that we are right back where we were before the credit crisis meltdown. Even more interesting, we were within a percent of where we were back [...]
