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DownloadA Simple Rotation Strategy With Sector ETFs
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here is a portfolio rebalancing technique that's simple enough for an individual trader to perform on a monthly basis
Applying The Sector Rotation Model
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Two simple tools can help you incorporate the macro perspectives of the stock market in your technical analysis: the sector rotation model and the yield curve. Both are based on macro fundamentals, both have a technical application, and both have signals
Are Leveraged Sector ETFs For You? by L.A. Little
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are Leveraged Sector ETFs For You? by L.A. Little Find out if you can include these products in your list of tradables. IN 1992, the American Stock Exchange (Amex) petitioned the Securities and Exchange Commission (Sec) to create a standalone index-ba
BlackRock - New Financial Sector Leader?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It's been a tough year for financial stocks, especially banks — the sector dropped 48% between January and the third week in March.
Capitalizing On Sector Rotation Strategies
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traders can always learn something from investors and vice versa. Typically, investors put more weight into outperforming sectors. But is that the best way? Let's find out
Comparing ETF Sector Families
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are you interested in learning more about using exchange traded funds (ETFs) in your trading? Leslie N. Masonson, an active ETF trader, is president of Cash Management Resources, a financial consulting firm that focuses on ETF strategies. He is the autho
Consumer Staples Sector Fails To Offer Safe Haven
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Consumer Staples SPDR has been underperforming the Standard & Poor's 500, and continued distribution bodes ill for this sector.
Consumer Staples Select Sector Surges To Previous High
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...XLP is heading toward new highs.
Descending Triangles: Brocade Communications Follows the Sector
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Brocade Communications (BRCD) is ready to go with the others in the sector. . .
Diamonds in the Rough for the Drug Sector
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The diamond at the bottom of the decline in the S&P Pharmaceuticals Index could mean reversal. But further declines are more likely.
Do Weak Sector Funds Have A Head Start On The Summer Selloff?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As the broad US markets prepare for a summer corrective move, traders shorting the stocks from the weakest industry groups might have a distinct market edge.
Does The Financial Sector Have The Strength To Recover?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After a long time, the Financials Select Sector SPDR is showing signs of recovery. Will it carry the rally ahead?
ETF Sector Investing
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are you interested in learning more about using exchange traded funds (ETFs) in your trading? Leslie N. Masonson, an active ETF trader, is president of Cash Management Resources, a financial consulting firm that focuses on ETF strategies. He is the autho
ETF Sector Investing
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are you interested in learning more about using exchange traded funds (ETFs) in your trading? Leslie N. Masonson, an active ETF trader, is president of Cash Management Resources, a financial consulting firm that focuses on ETF strategies. He is the autho
Energy Sector Consolidates
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Will the Energy Select Sector undergo a bullish breakout or drop down to previous lows?
Energy Sector SPDR Undergoing Trend Reversal
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Energy Select Sector SPDR has formed a descending triangle. Can the upward breakout of the bearish pattern sustain, indicating a major trend reversal?
Energy Sector To Continue Higher Near Term
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Statistical analysis of the energy market sector shows that over the near term, this market should continue to move higher. However, a market correction or even a long-term downtrend reversal looms on the horizon.
Energy Sector Trading At Lower Range
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Due to the weak trend, the bullish rally of XLE gradually plunged below its major support levels. The range-bound movement of the sector index is likely to affect the breakout of Chesapeake Energy Corp.
Energy Sector and S&P 500: A Look At Pairwise Correlation
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Can you develop a trading strategy out of a correlation pattern between two assets? Here we analyze the movement of the S&P 500 index with its various sectors to find out if any correlation patterns stand out
Energy Select Sector Has Robust Breakout
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...XLE shows the bullish symptoms to continue the upward rally by entering the new uptrend with a gap-up breakout.
Energy Select Sector May Undergo Some More Correction
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...XLE has moved into the overbought area, and the daily price chart has formed a rising wedge. The sector is likely to witness a correction during the uptrend.
ExxonMobil Lags Energy Sector
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Despite new highs in the energy sector, ExxonMobil remains well below its March high and shows poor relative strength.
Fidelity Sector Funds Leaders And Laggards
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Comparing the track records of the Fidelity Select Sector funds on a short-, intermediate-, and long-term basis may help identify industry group rotations.
Financial Sector Fuels The S&P 500
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The S&P 500 has now run up against key resistance and cannot seem to break through to continue its advance. The financial market sector is the fuel for the S&P 500. Has the S&P 500 run out of fuel?
Financial Sector Leads Broader Stock Market
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...There are many ways to determine if the stock market is at or near a major market bottom. One way is by looking at the financial sector. Turns in the financial sector normally lead turns in the broader stock market.
Financial Sector Reversal In Trouble
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Statistical analysis is used here to show that the financial sector is close to reversing its weak downward trend to a new uptrend. However, this analysis also shows that this reversal may be diverted.
Financial Sector Stocks Correction?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Financial sector stocks enjoyed a major rally from October 2011 into May 2013 but a correction and/or trend reversal of the entire run higher appears to be in the works.
Financial Select Sector Completing Final Leg Down
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...XLF has now completed all the Elliott wave rules and guidelines for the completion of the ABC zigzag market correction. The financial market could be on the cusp of a new bull market.
Health Care Select Sector Awaits The Breakout
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Examining different charts of the same sector suggests various technical resistances.
In Sector Funds, Transportation Is Hot, Energy Not
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With the broad US markets likely getting close to an interim (maybe even major) cycle top, here's a look at the strongest and weakest funds in the Fidelity Select Sector mutual funds complex.
Is The Financial Sector Ready To Break Out?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The pullback rally of the Financial Sector SPDR has moved closer to the moving average resistance. The technical check is necessary for the direction of the breakout.
Material Select Sector May Retest Other Supports
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After a symmetrical triangle breakdown, XLB is dragged below its initial support and may continue the decline.
Opportunity In The Networking Sector
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Networking sector is undergoing a correction after a huge rally to the upside. This correction is happening on a bullish falling wedge pattern.
Outperform The Market With Sector ETFs
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a long-term strategy that is similar to the dogs of the Dow strategy, except that it uses Select Sector ETFs. Find out how this strategy can be used to outperform the S&P 500.
PHLX Semiconductor Sector Index
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A buy short-term setup brings prices into a first resistance.
Property Sector Yin And Yang
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How can the performance of two industries in the same sector be worlds apart?
Retail Sector Leads Economy Lower
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Retail sales account for two-thirds of the economy. By looking at the retail sector of the stock market we can look into the future and see that the economic plan that Congress has been working on so hard to pass is not a quick fix, and the economy still
Retail Sector Says Market Bottom Not In Yet
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...There are many ways to measure if the current low in the market is the bottom. Among these is the major trend direction of the retail market sector.
Sector Fund
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Sector Fund
Sector Spotting
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Strength in semiconductor and box maker indexes may point toward opportunities in a number of stocks.
Select Sector SPDRs/SPXpm exchange
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Each month, Trading Ticket takes a look at selected ETFs and Exchanges.
Stock Market Sector Analysis
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...See how the strongest stock market sectors perform in bull and bear markets.
Taking The Tech Sector Apart --Technically by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Taking The Tech Sector Apart -- Technically by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan The recent downfall in technology stocks came as a shock to some traders. Here's how you could have protected your profits. You would find that a picture is truly worth a thousand wo
Technology Select Sector Consolidating At New Levels
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...XLK is undergoing healthy consolidation at all-time highs, leading to a bullish rally.
The Fundamentals of Sector Rotation by Paul and Carole Huebott
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Fundamentals of Sector Rotation by Paul and Carole Huebott Maintaining an optimized portfolio of strong blue-chip stocks is one way to invest. Here are the basics of how stock groups move through a typical business cycle. Our new Dow strategy, des
The Most Important Stock Sector To Monitor For Bull And Bear Market Trends
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Want to know one simple gauge the pros use for determining the overall health of the stock market? Find out what to look for
Trade Sector Funds With Pure Momentum by Jay Kaeppel
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trade Sector Funds With Pure Momentum by Jay Kaeppel In the July 1999 Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES, I wrote about one of the systems I use to trade Fidelity Select sector funds. That system was referred to as the relative strength system (
Trading Sector Funds Using Statistics by John P. Twardy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:10 (82-88): Trading Sector Funds Using Statistics by John P. Twardy Ever thought of trading sector funds? Here's a method that'll give you an edge on the market. Sector fund analysis and trading always seem to require tools o
Transportation Sector In Downtrend
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Dow Jones Transportation Average Diffusion Index suggests that the transportation market sector is in an established intermediate-term downward trend.
Using Sector Strength To Identify Buys
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Relative strength offers traders a way to identify top-performing sectors, and exchange traded funds offer a way for investors to trade these ideas.
Utilities Select Sector Consolidates At Previous High Resistance
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The previous high in XLU was at its all-time high. The security is back to its prior high pivot and is now accumulating the strength for a further surge.
Utilities Select Sector In Trading Range
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...An increase in volatility could initiate a new directional move.
Utility Sector Underperforming
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Utility Select Sector is trapped in a narrow range and is showing no strength.
What Do Sector Rankings Tell Us About the Economy?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The jury may still be out among analysts regarding whether this rally will be sustained or not but a look at the sectors tells a revealing tale about the state of the economy.
With Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF, The Downtrend Continues
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...There are no indications of a reversal; bad news and the generally negative sentiment could bring prices excessively lower.
Working Money: Property Sector Yin And Yang by Matt Blackman
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