This Week’s Strategy Lesson: Using the Trade Tracking Tool (Part 2)
Two weeks ago I started a three part series on how to use the trade tracking excel spreadsheet that was designed to help people track their trades and follow …
This Week’s Strategy Lesson: Model Said There’d Be Weeks Like This
This was a rough week for the ETF Sector Plus model. It was a rough week for the markets in general. The SPY and the DIA took out the …
This Week’s Strategy Lesson: Using the Trade Tracking Tool (Part 1)
This week we had our ETF Sector Plus live training webinar. In addition to looking at some of the macroeconomic and ETF trends, we spent a little time going …
This Week’s Strategy Lesson: Divergence
I thought we could take this week’s strategy lesson from Hollywood. Divergent open nationwide this weekend, but you don’t have to go to a theater to see divergence. It is on display in the markets …
This Week’s Strategy Lesson: Spinning Tops
In Japanese candlestick charting, a spinning top pattern is when a candlestick has a short body with long wicks above and below it. It is typically associated with an indecisive market. A situation where …
This Week’s Strategy Lesson: Exogenous Shocks.
These last couple weeks have been good examples of the potential effects of “exogenous” shocks or news events. When economists look at the economy or financial analysts values a company, they construct models that …
Voila! Volatility.
I think it is important that we talk a little more about volatility. In many senses, volatility is a fundamental and inescapable element of all markets. Anytime you put people together in a room, there is going to …
This Week’s Strategy Lesson: Leveraged ETFs
Leveraged ETF are some of the newest products in a category (ETFs) that are already the new kids on the investment block. In 2006 the first leveraged ETFs were introduced. Similar as to how …
This Week's Strategy Lesson
This week I wanted to talk a little about the volatility inherent in the ETF Sector Plus Strategy. While the strategy has outperformed the market wildly the past several years, one cost of that out performance …