There seemed to be two separate stock markets on Monday with SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (NYSE: DIA) up 0.25% and SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE: SPY) down only 0.07%. These indexes masked larger losses in small cap stocks and on the NASDAQ. iShares Russell 2000 (NYSE: IWM) fell 1.09% and PowerShares QQQ (NYSE:…    [Read More] 

Major stock market averages ended Friday down for the day. SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE: SPY) ended the day with a loss of 0.58%, a loss that pushed the ETF into slightly negative territory for the week. SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (NYSE: DIA) dropped 0.36% on Friday and closed 0.79% lower for the…    [Read More] 

Emerging markets remain under pressure and heading into Friday’s open ETFs tracking stocks markets in three of the four BRIC countries are oversold. The BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) are considered bellwethers of the trend in emerging markets. This is true for their stock markets and their economies in general. Only Russian stocks are…    [Read More] 

At the close on Wednesday, four country ETFs had PowerRatings of 10. The list below is obtained by clicking on the Country Fund ETFs link at the PowerRatings web site. These ETFs are also set up as potential buys under the rules detailed in our guidebook, High Probability Trading for International ETFs. These strategies do…    [Read More] 

Stocks sold off broadly on Tuesday. Just 22% of the stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange ended the day higher while only 23% of NASDAQ-listed issues were up. ETFs tracking all major stock market averages were down. Small caps suffered the largest losses and iShares Russell 2000 (NYSE: IWM) fell 1.18%. Sector ETFs…    [Read More] 

Planar Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: PLNR), Seabridge Gold, Inc. (NYSE: SA) and Zumiez (NASADAQ: ZUMZ) topped the list of stocks PowerRatings users were interested in following on Monday. On the PowerRatings web site you can find a list of the most requested stocks. Traders are usually looking at PowerRatings to determine if a particular stock is oversold…    [Read More] 

Four ETFs are heading into Monday’s trading with PowerRatings of 9 or 10.These ETFs track mining stocks, the biotech sector and the stock market of South Korea. The fourth column in the table above shows the number of high probability buy setups that each ETF meets using strategies detailed in the book High Probability ETF…    [Read More] 

The European Central Bank (ECB) surprised traders with an interest rate cut on Thursday. The ECB also announced plans to expand an easy money policy and took several other steps in an effort to spur economic growth in the euro zone. Reaction in the stock market was mixed as early gains in U.S. stocks were…    [Read More] 

Heading into Thursday’s trading, just one country ETF, iShares MSCI South Korea (NYSE: EWY), has a PowerRatings of 8 or higher. EWY will start trading on Thursday with a PowerRatings of 9. Many international ETFs were up on Wednesday but EWY seems to have been weighed down by disappointing news on exports. South Korea’s monthly…    [Read More] 

Leveraged ETFs provide traders with an opportunity to take long or short positions in major market indexes. There are a number of bull/bear pairs of funds as shown in the table below. Bullish leveraged ETFs tracking the Dow, NASDAQ 100 and S&P 500 indexes are neutral according to PowerRatings and bearish leveraged ETFs are also…    [Read More]