Trend Analysis

Twice as in a second interest rate cut and will it be good news for the iShares MSCI Israel Capped Investable Market Index Fund (NYSEArca: EIS). Believe it or not, less than two weeks after the Bank of Israel surprisingly lowered interest rates by 25 basis points to 1.5%, there is chatter the...

It will be interesting to see how much of the hot money that has flooded into Japanese ETFs will run for cover after the Nikkei’s stunning 1,000-point drawdown Thursday. WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity (NYSEArca: DXJ) and iShares MSCI Japan (NYSEArca: EWJ) were down about 8% in early U.S. trading....

Most days recently I’ve been posting a rising channel from the 1536 low, and I posted on twitter yesterday that channel resistance was hit at 1684.6 and there was leeway for a push through to 1685/6. I was frankly irritated when SPX then reached 1687.18, which was a clear breach of my channel resistance trendline. [...]

Back in April the market experienced a similar sell off for 63 points. What happened after the initial major down day was a few days of very large gaps (10pts and greater), before the market settled down and eventually resumed the up trend. Also in late February the markets went through a similar increase in [...]

bulls will want to see the 3x1 (red line) and the 2x1 hold note 1680 was 144 points from the 1536 low 1666 was 1000 points from 666 low (250% )

There is no shortage of thirst for income and yield among investors. Nor is there are a dearth of available ETFs with which to quench that thirst as fund sponsors have met investors’ desire for income products with a spate of new dividend ETF introductions over the past year. [State Street Readies...

The sell-off continued overnight. The ES lost another 20 handles and hit the support area at 1630-33:

a big engulfing candle after 2 dojis...

April 14, 2013: USDJPY daily / weekly / monthly charts show EXTREME OVEREXTENSION with risk of collapse.