Category: Sector ETF
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Interest Rate Trend and Rate Sensitive Sector Stocks
The interest rate on the 10 Year Treasury has gained over 20% so far in 2018, but I noticed it’s more recently settled down a little. One of my ASYMMETRY® systems generated a short-term momentum… Read More
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Sector Trends are Driving Equity Returns
In Growth Stocks have Stronger Momentum than Value in 2018 I explained the divergence between the return of the two styles of Growth and Value. I suggest the real return driver between size and style is primarily the… Read More
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Asymmetric force was with the buyers
In Asymmetric force direction and size determines a trend, I explained how the net force of all the forces acting on a trend is the force that determines the direction. The force must be asymmetric… Read More
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Stock pickers market? Sector rotation with stocks for asymmetric reward to risk
After yesterdays 1.1% gain for the S&P 500, it is back in positive territory for the year. It’s been a very volatile start for 2018 with an abnormally strong trend in U.S. stocks late 2017 continued in… Read More
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Buying demand dominated selling pressure in the stock market
Past performance is no guarantee of future results and that was the case today. After last weeks Selling pressure overwhelms buying demand for stocks for the third day in a row the enthusiasm to buy overwhelmed the desire to sell.… Read More
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Gold Isn’t Always A Hedge or Safe Haven: Gold Stock Trends Have Been Even Worse
For several years we often heard investors suggesting to “buy gold”. We could throw in Silver here, too. They provide many theories about how gold bullion or gold stocks are a “safe haven”. I’ve written about the… Read More
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The Trend of the U.S. Stock Market and Sectors Year-to-Date
As of today, the below table illustrates the year-to-date gains and losses for the S&P 500® Index (SPY) and the 9 Sector SPDRs in the S&P 500®. We observe the current and historical performance to see how the… Read More
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U.S. Sector Observation
I don’t often comment on a day’s price action in the stock market, but thought I would. The U.S. stock market reversed up somewhat today. Market trends swing up and down on their way to… Read More
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Why Index ETFs Over Individual Stocks?
A fellow portfolio manager I know was telling me about a sharp price drop in one of his positions that was enough to wipe out the 40% gain he had in the stock. Of course, he had… Read More
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Low Volatility and Managed Volatility Smart Beta is Really Just a Shift in Sector Allocation
There is a lot of talk nowadays about “Smart Beta”. Smart beta refers to an investment style where the manager passively follows an index designed to take advantage of perceived systematic biases or inefficiencies in the… Read More