There are numerous ETFs that track everything from countries, commodities, currencies, and stock market indices to individual market sectors. ETFs provide a wonderfully easy way to discover what’s happening in the world markets. I apply an index-based version of my System Quality Number® (SQN®) score to measure the relative performance of numerous markets in a…
In May 2018, Bloomberg announced that they had formed a cryptocurrency index called the Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index. Since Bloomberg only caters to institutional clients, an index of this nature was one of the first steps toward widespread institutional involvement. The index tracks five major crypto assets: Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin…
I always say that people do not trade the markets; they trade their beliefs about the markets. In that same way, I’d like to point out that these updates reflect my beliefs. I find the market update information useful for my trading, so I do the work each month and am happy to share that…
I always say that people do not trade the markets; they trade their beliefs about the markets. In that same way, I’d like to point out that these updates reflect my beliefs. I find the market update information useful for my trading, so I do the work each month and am happy to share that…
Thanksgiving week is seasonally one of the strongest of the year. On Monday, the tech-heavy Nasdaq and the broader S&P 500 followed the time-tested tradition of strong Thanksgiving weeks by notching a new intraday all-time high before pulling back later in the session. In today’s tip, let’s take a look at what could be driving…
I’ve never quite understood the bearish crowd that worries “things are going too well.” Yes, I understand reversion to the mean. I also believe that sentiment analysis (too many people on one side of the market or the other) helps point out potential turning points. But over the past 15-20 years, markets have consistently been…
The Big Picture Outlook represents an important foundation for your investment and trading decisions. Van regularly points out that a very long-term analysis is critical for success trading the markets. The Big Picture Outlook impacts your trading strongly in terms of what asset classes to trade, which trading systems to employ, which trading instrument to…
Almost every week someone asks me whether or not this is the market top and every time I have a similar answer – until the money stops pouring in, none of the “lesser” issues matter very much. Technicals, sentiment, geopolitical issues, Covid news – all of that has had fleeting effects on the equity markets….
Earlier this month, we talked about recent and potential future financial bubbles. There has been, what I’ve called, a “money storm” in the U.S. (and similarly in many other countries) coming from continued Federal Reserve monetary stimulus and from fiscal stimulus delivered by congress. Here’s a picture of the ongoing massive expansion of the Fed’s…
Greetings from Old Orchard Beach in Maine. I’m up in the lovely Pine Tree State with my wife visiting my brother-in-law and we decided to go to spend a few days in the lovely “old school” beach community and, of course, to eat lobster. Lobster rolls, whole lobsters, lobster salad—I’m not picky… I’ve shared before…
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