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Dave Fry's Market Comments For July 8

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:29:55 GMT

MARKET COMMENT July 8, 2009 We had a lot more volume than we’ve seen recently. Short-term equity markets are much oversold while commodity markets continue to get hammered big time. The entire day can be summed up with just those two sentences. But now we have earnings upon us and Alcoa is kicking things off with unremarkable results.[More...]

Dave Fry's Market Comments For June 30

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:10:34 GMT

MARKET COMMENT June 30, 2009 Um, “worse than expected”? I guess that sums it up today as Consumer Confidence data was terrible. Stock price declines today were milder than expected given the news. But, silly me, I forget that this is the quarter and mid-year end—there are bonuses to be had and bullish headlines to be written.[More...]

Dave Fry's Market Comments For June 29

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:36:29 GMT

MARKET COMMENT June 29, 2009 I thought this deliberate end-of-month/quarter shenanigans were against the rules right? Oh, they don’t enforce this type of activity—never have, never will. Anyway, with volume ultra-light, or absent bullish news for that matter, propping markets can be done with ease since it takes just a little paint to push things in the desired direction. Breadth was positive but volume was beneath significant.[More...]

Dave Fry's Comments for May 11

Mon, 11 May 2009 22:42:52 GMT

MARKET COMMENT May 11, 2009 This image again?!? Yeah, well it’s another one of those Mondays. We’ve had a bunch of them over the past two months.[More...]

Dave Fry's Market Comments For April 28

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:25:58 GMT

MARKET COMMENT April 28, 2009 I wish my Money & Banking class in college was this easy—hell, even gym was hard by comparison to current bank stress tests. Basically it’s an open book test allowing banks to set their own evaluations on some toxic waste and hope investors take it all in stride. The false and misleading statements from CEOs like BAC CEO Ken Lewis are, in ordinary times, shocking. These days it passes for business as usual.[More...]

Dave Fry's Market Comments For April 27

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:59:26 GMT

MARKET COMMENT April 27, 2009 I’ve been posting this image quite a bit recently since the past few Monday’s have been busts. There wasn’t much to cheer about so using a swine flu outbreak panic was a good reason to sell. It seems there are plenty of reasons to sell: light volume, high PEs, the BS (or, what you don’t know can’t hurt you) from Fed bank “stress tests”, the big run-up we’ve had in prices, auto bankruptcies and so forth. As you can see volume remains comparatively weak while breadth was negative today.[More...]

Dave Fry's Market Comments For January 5

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:35:00 GMT

MARKET COMMENT January 5, 2009 Part 1 Part 2 Color today, sloppy. Volume is still on the light side as investors may be slow to return to work. Breadth was positive even with negative headline numbers. Despite all notifications of ridiculously poor mathematical calculations Yahoo/Finance still can’t seem to get things right as you’ll note below.[More...]

Dave Fry's Market Comments For December 22

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:25:00 GMT

MARKET COMMENT December 22, 2008 This is no way to start the holiday week is it? The only folks pleased by today’s action are those driving a Hummer and/or snowmobiling. This type of action is why Chicken Dave still maintains high cash balances at the ETF Digest. Bulls will cheer the light volume today as no big thing but you should expect this type of action in either direction until trading resumes after the New Year.[More...]

Dave Fry's Market Comments For December 16

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:54:00 GMT

MARKET COMMENT December 16, 2008 Bernanke is living up to his reputation as helicopter drops of cash will rain on markets until his academic research is vindicated. It’s as most have been saying, “when push comes to shove politicians and officials will choose to inflate.” Theoretically, barring heavy central bank sales, investors have been given the green light to buy gold and hold it until the Fed reverses course. Uncle Buck will also take a hit.[More...]

Dave Fry's Market Comments For December 10

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:12:00 GMT

MARKET COMMENT December 10, 2008 The action today was choppy and uncertain. Serious sellers were met by even more determined buyers. As we headed into the close the propping by bulls (and whomever else you choose to think of) was even more intense. One thing is becoming more obvious; gold bugs are getting their groove back as they sniff-out the inflationary implications of all this money printing.[More...]

Mull ETFs to Portfolio

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:49:00 GMT

Mar. 16--Consider adding exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to your portfolio.
Here are the ticker symbols (and some nicknames) for a few ETFs of major indexes: S&P 500 (Spiders, SPY), the Nasdaq 100 (Cubes, QQQQ), Total Stock Market (Vipers, VTI), Dow Jones industrial average (Diamonds, DIA), Russell 2000 (iShares Russell 2000, IWM), iShares MSCI Japan Index (EWJ).
Often sporting very low fees and tax-efficient infrequent trading, ETFs offer easy diversification into groups of businesses.

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