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Investars YOU: New Site for Index Tracking and Investing XLP

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+17.40% in 155 days Below are 20 new stock indexes I have created, revised, and tracked over the past few years which are now featured at a new website called Investars YOU. The new site includes automated index tracking and allows investors to create custom stock portfolios based on their individual preferences. <o:p>   </o:p> http://biomedreports.com/articles/most-popular/1630-investars... <o:p>   </o:p> Cosmetic & Restorative Medicine Index http://www.investinwhoyouare.com/iip_you_profiles.aspx?Portfo... <o:p>   </o:p> <> The Cosmetic and Restorative Medici... Continue reading »

Create Your Own Highly Defensive ETF XLP

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+1.90% in 156 days (closed on 06/26/09) Create Your Own Highly Defensive ETF   The table at my website link below contains 35 companies included in the ETF Innovators [ETFI] Highly Defensive PerformIdex which are based in the U.S., Canada, and Europe with market caps over $10B that are the leaders by market cap in their defensive industry groups. The index includes 23 consumer staples and healthcare companies, with the remaining 12 companies chosen from a variety of other defensive industry groups.   http://www.etfinnovators.com/2009/01/create-your-own-highly-d...   <> (A) Mass Merchant Dis... Continue reading »

Beyond Active ETFs: Build Your Own XLP

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-1.73% in 3 days (closed on 01/21/09) Beyond Active ETFs: Build Your Own <> Index Universe reported last week that Grail Partners has requested SEC approval to launch two new exchange-traded funds (ETFs) which are actively managed and do not track an underlying index. The Grail American Beacon Large Cap Value ETF and the Grail American Beacon International Equity ETF would not have any restrictions on trading, but Grail expects to provide more details on target turnover rates for the funds once the managers and investment strategy is in place. As an alternative investing strategy, why not create your ow... Continue reading »

ETF Innovators: 24 New Product Ideas XLP

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+0.00% in 23 hours (closed on 01/18/09) ETF Innovators: 24 New Product Ideas   Below are 24 new exchange-traded product (ETP) ideas, which are organized by the following sectors and themes: transports (six), healthcare (11), Non-Healthcare (five), and commodities (two). The 20 stock-based ETF ideas below are structured as semi-active indexes with monthly rebalancing to choose the top rated stocks as active components on an equal-weight basis.   http://www.etfinnovators.com/2009/01/etf-innovators-24-new-pr...   <> Most of the ideas represent first-to-market ideas and several such as Air and... Continue reading »

New ETF Ideas for Investors XLP

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-4.23% in 93 days (closed on 01/17/09) New ETF Ideas for Investors <> <> The accompanying tables present an overview of new global equity indexes and ETF proposals developed to provide investors with long or short investment vehicles for industry groups that currently have few or no ETFs on the market. The goal of these ideas is to provide investors with global equity index investment products which are more focused than broad-based ETFs such as iShares Dow Transports (IYT), Healthcare Sector SPDR (XLV), and Consumer Staples Sector SPDR (XLP). However, the goal is to choose industry groups which are... Continue reading »

From the Blogosphere

Stock Market's Rising Tide Not Lifting All Boats

Friday marked a post bear market closing high for the S&P 500 Index (SPY, above), as well as the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The 20-day volume-weighted moving average of SPY (green line above) is sloping nicely higher. It is difficult to not rate this as a bull market. Still, yellow caution lights are flashing. <>Of the 40 S&P 500 stocks in my basket (five highly weighted issues taken from each of eight sectors that I track weekly), 21 are trading in short-term uptrends, 15 are neutral, and 4 in downtrends. Readers who follow my Twitter posts (follow here) daily know that this is weaker ... Continue reading »

Was Friday's Late Rally the Start of Something Big?

I received quite a few emails asking my opinion about Friday's late surge in the stock market averages, which saw SPY touch a post-crash bull high before pulling back slightly below its prior high of 5/8/09. <>The long and short of it is that I don't see good leadership in the recent strength. For example, Friday's market registered 1401 new 20-day highs against 351 new lows across the NYSE, NASDAQ, and ASE. That compares with 2862 new 20-day highs and 224 lows on May 4th and 2199 highs and 245 lows at the closing price high of May 8th. At least for now, fewer stocks appear to be particip... Continue reading »

Market vs. Sectors

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When the broader stock market is consolidating, it is useful to look at sectors that are diverging from the market in order to evaluate underlying strengths or weaknesses in the market. Typically there is at least one pocket of the market that moves in advance in the direction of a subsequent move in the overall market. Last year at this time the market was consolidating near its move highs off of the Bear Stearns/March 2008 lows, and the big banks (KBE) were lagging badly. KBE was scraping along its 52-week lows at the same time as the NASDAQ was testing 5-month highs. Homebuilders (XHB) ... Continue reading »

Market vs. Sectors

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<o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><style> </style> <o:p> </o:p> <>When the broader stock market is consolidating, it is useful to look at sectors that are diverging from the market in order to evaluate underlying strengths or weaknesses in the market. Typically there is at least one pocket of the market that moves in advance in the direction of a subsequent move in the overall market. Last year at this time th... Continue reading »

Interesting Divergences Among Indexes and Sectors

While the S&P 500 Index ($SPX; top chart) is still below its bull highs, shares in Europe, the Far East, and Australasia (EFA; middle chart) and in emerging markets (EEM; bottom chart) registered new bull highs yesterday. <>Even within the U.S. market, we're seeing interesting disparities. Consumer Staples shares (XLP) made a bull high yesterday, while the Dow 30 Industrials (DIA), Health Care (XLV), and Materials (XLB) stocks are quite close to their bull highs. Banking stocks ($BKX), however, are more than 10% off their bull highs, and we are well off highs among the NASDAQ 100 Index stock... Continue reading »

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