All Posts Tagged With: "etf"

This Market is Not Risky Enough

By John K. Whitehall, Oxbury Research

That’s right.

I’m tired of all the stability, certainty, and guaranteed returns in the stock market lately.

Or so seems to be the thought process behind Direxion Funds’ introduction of a couple of brand-new ETFs…

7Nov2008 | Oxbury Research | 0 comments | Continued

Market Vectors Environmental Services ETF: Adding Recession “Insurance”

A friend of mine, along with his family, owns and operates one of the largest landfills in my area. He smiles and says, "It’s about as a recession-proof business as you can find. Here in the United States, people and businesses…

29Oct2008 | Investment U | 0 comments | Continued

The Last Great Bubble

If I were to put the blame of this current financial crisis squarely on the shoulders of one individual, hands down, Easy Al Greenspan would be in the middle of my cross-hairs.  Through the combination of his loose monetary policy,…

24Oct2008 | Oxbury Research | 0 comments | Continued

Master Limited Partnerships: A New Way to Shop for Bargains

Most investors have never heard of, or purchased, shares of a master limited partnership (MLP). But, with many yielding more than 10% and prices at historically low levels, these bargains are getting hard to ignore.

Few investors know that master limited partnerships…

24Oct2008 | Investment U | 0 comments | Continued

Inverse ETFs Continue To Thrive In A Grim Market

In a week in which the Dow Jones Industrial Average has surrendered more than 10% of its value, inverse ETFs have continued to thrive.

A screen of the top 20 performing ETFs tracked by MSN Money for the 4-week period ending…

10Oct2008 | Oxbury Research | 0 comments | Continued

Dow Transports Say: The Bull Market Lives!

Matt McAbby
Quantitative Analyst, Oxbury Research

Dow Theory, developed originally by Charles Dow, the founder and editor of The Wall Street Journal, is one of the oldest and most reliable methods of market analysis available to investors. Without getting into all the…

3Sep2008 | Oxbury Research | 0 comments | Continued

ETF Investing: Protect yourself from the downside

It is hard to believe until last week, it was nearly a month since the Dow last posted a losing week. Even with ominous forecasts of recession, consumer sentiment plunging, and oil prices seeming to rise just to rise, the…

12May2008 | Andrew Snyder | 0 comments | Continued

Global Coal: A New Profit Source

It was about ten years ago when I first realized this world’s addiction to coal and its huge impact. It came at a rather weird time. I was rafting down a rural river (the same one Deliverance was filmed on),…

19Feb2008 | Andrew Snyder | 3 comments | Continued

Japanese iShares Over the Edge? The perfect time to be a bear…

For the better part of ’06 and ‘07 it appeared that the Japan iShares (EWJ:NYSE) was building momentum for another push to the upside. Fortunately for the technically savvy investment crowd, all the signs had become apparently clear that the upside…

8Feb2008 | Stephen Oakes | 0 comments | Continued
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