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One could use Stock Charts Technical Rank for US ETFs to find up-trending candidates:
http://stockcharts.com/freecharts/sctr.html?&V=E&T=E#&S=P1
(may be slow to load)
bee, it seems to me that SEQUX will be collecting $46 million in annual fees when and if their AUM goes down to $4.6 billion (and the ER is 1%). According to fundmojo.com, AUM as of 02/2016 was $6.04 billion, and AUM as of 05/2015 (the oldest date l…
Another reason that one might avoid SVXY, UVXY, VIXM, and VIXY is that they issue schedule K-1s. There is a list of such ETPs at: http://etfdb.com/etf-tax-efficiency/etf-tax-tutorial-complete-list-of-etfs-that-issue-a-k-1/
If you take the S&P 500 index (SPX) to be "the market," at the time of this writing, it has lost more than either FPACX or OAKBX over the periods of 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, and 6 months, per my reading of results on StockCharts.com. For examp…
If we take 2092 as "a little below 2100" and divide it into 3500, we get 1.673, or a 67.3% increase. If we divide 67.3% by 10 years, we get 6.73% per year, as stated above. However, this is the wrong way to do it. Approximately 5.3% per year, as Edm…
Here is the ETF.com description of TOTL:http://www.etf.com/TOTL
Here is DoubleLine's description of DBLTX:http://www.doublelinefunds.com/funds/total_return/overview.html
The mutual fund and the ETF are different enough so that the total 6-month daily returns to date are TOTL: -0.04% and DBLTX: 0.97%, according to StockCharts.com.
I don't know how Ulli came up with his TTI system. However, there's any number of ways one could develop a long-term market-timing system with moving average(s), curve-fit to a stock index for a given period of years of price data. One could use int…
Hi VintageFreak,
As it turns out, right now might be a good time to buy OSTVX. If you look at a line chart of its weekly price since 1/1/2015 with 3-week and 6-week exponential moving averages overlayed, it's a market timer's dream. The EMA crosses…
Hi Catch,
Yes, I tried some inverse ETFs, but they didn't work for me, and it doesn't feel good when the market is going up and your fund is going down. Also tried using some free internet services that find trending stocks and ETFs, but I guess th…
Hi, OJ. Are two analyses better than one? I would add some technical analysis to your above fundamental analysis. Comparing price charts of BP and CVX to DNO and SZO (on Big Charts, for example) might be instructive.
MikeW, the weekly price of CPA (Copa Holdings) has been below its 50-week simple moving average since August, 2014, and it has been making lower lows and lower highs since then, all not good signs.
Crash, when you said "there's not too much else," I took it to mean you were getting M* Premium separately. Upon re-reading your post, I guess you know it is a benefit of TRP's Premium Service:
http://individual.troweprice.com/public/Retail/Product…
IRY is thinly traded. The volume on 2/26 was 4833 shares per StockCharts.com. The average daily volume is 19,723 per etftrends.com. A spot check of prices on 2/27 at 10 AM EST on TradeMonster showed $51.00 Bid and $51.25 Ask. Besides, who wants to b…
I didn't read the whole article, but its theme reminds me of something I once read which went something like this: The best investments are found not in the glare of spotlights, but hiding in dark corners.
Catch, I also use charts, but I think we are in a small minority. Before buying or selling a security, I always look at its price chart, along with my favorite technical indicators and overlays. Even some different ways that price can be be plotted …
I am decades removed from school - when I was in grade school, it was shop for the boys and home ec. for the girls. And I think some of what occurs to me is covered in sex ed. and by a guidance councellor. But building on some of what Crash mentione…
An insider tip for analyzing which ETFs to buy, rather than invest in:
http://stockcharts.com/freecharts/sctr.html?&V=E&I=Y
(may take a while to load).