ETF Country Plus Strategy Insights: How to Follow the ETF Models (Part 4)

James Kimball | June 6, 2016

The Country models were up on the week on average about +2.8%. The benchmark was up +0.35%. The Country models lag the benchmark by 2-4% on the year. The SPY closed the week basically flat. A big miss on the …


ETF Country Plus Strategy Insights: How to Follow the ETF Models (Part 3)

James Kimball | May 31, 2016

The Country models were down on the week on average about -0.6%. The benchmark was up +2.24%. The Country models lag the benchmark by 4-6% on the year. The SPY had one of its strongest weeks of the year, closing …


ETF Country Plus Strategy Insights: How to Follow the ETF Models (Part 2)

James Kimball | May 23, 2016

The Country models were down on the week on average about -0.9%. The benchmark was up +0.5%. The Country models lag the benchmark by 2-4% on the year. The broader market narrowly avoided its fourth negative week close in a …


ETF Country Plus Strategy Insights: How to Follow the ETF Models (Part 3)

James Kimball | May 16, 2016

The Country models were down on the week on average about -0.95%. The benchmark was down -0.68%. The Country models and the benchmark are marginally down on the year. The broader market basically put in a relatively quiet sideways week. …


ETF Country Plus Strategy Insights: Strength in Commodities (Part 3)

James Kimball | May 9, 2016

The Country models were down on the week on average about -3.8%. The benchmark was down -1.5%. The Country models and the benchmark are are close to flat for the year. The broader market continued the short-term down trend from …


ETF Country Plus Strategy Insights: Strength in Commodities (Part 2)

James Kimball | May 2, 2016

The Country models were up on the week on average about +0.8%. The benchmark was down -1.22%. The Country models marginally lead the benchmark on the year. The broader market sold off into the tail of the week as the …


ETF Country Plus Strategy Insights: Strength in Commodities (Part 1)

James Kimball | April 25, 2016

The Country models were basically flat on the week on average. The benchmark was up +1.07%. The market rallied into the early half of the week before selling off and only managing to finish about a half percent higher (SPY). …


ETF Country Plus Strategy Insights: 2016 Market and ETF Performance (Global Macro / Complete)

James Kimball | April 18, 2016

The Country models were up on the week an average of about +4.0%. The benchmark was up +1.9%. The market rally continued, albeit at a slower pace. After spending two weeks roughly going sideways the market put in a new …


ETF Country Plus Strategy Insights: 2016 Market and ETF Performance (Country)

James Kimball | April 11, 2016

The Country models were down on the week an average of about -2.6% on the week. The benchmark was down -0.8%. The market, somewhat expectantly, took a pause on the strong rally that dates back to the second week of …


ETF Country Plus Strategy Insights: 2016 Market and ETF Performance (Sector)

James Kimball | April 4, 2016

The Country models were up on the week up on average about +1.6% on the week. The benchmark was up +1.4%. The market rally continued this week, putting in strong days on Tuesday from Fed Chair Janet Yellen talking up …