ETFs are an extremely popular investment option, due to their low costs, diversified risks and accessibility. Here, Jonas Elmerraji looks at the various ways of investing in ETFs. He also recommends three small-cap ETFs for penny stock portfolios.
Lehman Brothers (NYSE: LEH) has a lot to answer for… No sooner had I wrapped up this edition of “Sector Watch” than the company declared bankruptcy, thus forcing me into a swift re-write! So much for my plan to go fishing yesterday…
1-2-3 Trader editor Jim Stanton says commodity ETFs are riding the three-point waves of a downturn. After the first trough, the stock stages a small rally, before heading back down. This pattern provides good buy and sell signals for resource investors. Jim says ETFs United States Oil Fund (AMEX: USO) and United States Natural Gas Fund (AMEX: UNG) have further short-term corrections ahead, meaning an opportunity to go short.
Technical and quant analyst Jim Stanton says he has developed a trading system - the 1-2-3 Trader - that has so far brought in cumulative profits of 591%. Here he explains how he applies this system to the energy sector…
The last time we checked in, I had written about a potential Dow Theory buy signal. Lo and behold, the very next day the indexes reversed and started moving higher. Primarily due to frantic short covering in the financial sector, it was still helped along by declining oil prices and a little government intervention in the short sale department.
For a few days last week it looked like the ‘junior miners’ had finally decoupled from the mainstream stockmarket trend. They actually rose as the Dow and S&P plunged. Sadly it didn’t last – before long they turned down once again. It seems we were being teased.
The airline industry is a mess. Things are so out of whack that one airliner, American Airlines, announced last week that it was going to charge for the baggage that passengers check.
The IEA forecast for a daily increase in global oil production of 31 million barrels by 2030—a 37% jump—sounds like pure fantasy. Do the facts support it? Are big oil companies already searching for that future oil and finding it? Do they have plans to produce it?
I’m going to show you a very important chart below. It’s one that shows one of the biggest drivers for higher gas prices.
When a commodity or stock breaks out to new highs, as oil has done again this week, it’s extremely unwise to go short, as many are suggesting. I have no doubt, of course, that now I’ve said that in print, it will mark the top of the market.