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Sector-Specific Asset Bubbles
Stock Traders Daily • Wed, May 22
Will Wednesday's Fed Minutes Spark A Sell-Off?
Chris Ciovacco • Tue, May 21
S&P 500 Sector Breadth Levels
Bespoke Investment Group • Mon, May 13 • 3 Comments
Sell In May? Maybe A Little, But Rotate
Howard Reisman • Wed, May 8 • 19 Comments
Emerging Markets Vs. Domestic Markets: Can The Chart Recover?
Emerging Money • Fri, May 3
S&P 500 Sector Trading Range Charts
Bespoke Investment Group • Fri, May 3
A Case For Owning Commodities When No One Else Is
Frank Holmes • Thu, May 2 • 1 Comment
Best And Worst ETFs And Mutual Funds: Materials Sector
David Trainer • Tue, Apr 30 • 5 Comments
Market Update: Can An Extended S&P 500 See Further Gains?
Pendulum • Tue, Apr 30 • 16 Comments
Sector Rotation May Be Underway
David I. Templeton • Sun, Apr 28 • 15 Comments
Hedge Funds Are Buying 2 High-Growth Basic Materials Stocks With Encouraging Sales Trends
Kapitall • Thu, Apr 25 • 5 Comments
S&P 500 And Sector Trading Range Charts
Bespoke Investment Group • Wed, Apr 24
Still Cautiously Bullish On S&P 500 As The Stock Pickers' Market May Return
Pendulum • Mon, Apr 22
Market Correction: Where Is The Money Flowing?
Martin Vlcek • Fri, Apr 19 • 31 Comments
Tech Slips Into The Red
Bespoke Investment Group • Thu, Apr 18
Seeking Alpha: Momentum Investing With ETFs
Morningstar • Thu, Apr 18 • 15 Comments
Why Corporate Bond ETFs And Preferred ETFs Are Hitting New 52-Week Highs
Gary Gordon • Wed, Apr 17
This High-Growth Company Is A Good Addition To Any Portfolio
DNA Decoder • Wed, Apr 17 • 20 Comments
Dividend ETFs Make Swift Train Tracks
David Fabian • Tue, Apr 16 • 5 Comments
Cautious, Not Bearish, After Monday's S&P 500 Price Action
Pendulum • Tue, Apr 16 • 4 Comments

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Alcoa Proves It's Time To Love The XLB Again
Logan Corbin • Tue, Apr 9 • 8 Comments
Materials Sector ETF Outperforming Broad Markets
Tom Lydon • Thu, Jan 10 • 1 Comment
7 Reasons Materials Are Poised To Break Higher
Chris Ciovacco • Wed, Sep 12, 2012 • 1 Comment
The Case For Cyclicals In A Dividend Growth Portfolio
Skyler Greene • Wed, Aug 1, 2012 • 13 Comments
Base Metals: The 'Tell'
David Fry • Tue, May 1, 2012 • 8 Comments
In the Shadows of the Commodity Bubble - A Normal Correction Doesn't Seem Possible
Russ Winter • Wed, Mar 9, 2011 • 6 Comments
Put Buying Surges in Materials ETF
optionMONSTER • Fri, Nov 5, 2010
Materials Sector Leads ETF Option Action Today
optionMONSTER • Wed, Oct 27, 2010
DuPont Earnings Bring Materials SPDR ETF Into Focus
Eric Dutram • Tue, Oct 26, 2010
Wait a Bit Before Jumping Into Materials ETFs
Gary Gordon • Tue, Jun 8, 2010
Five Head-to-Head ETF Matchups to Keep an Eye on
Michael Johnston • Fri, Jun 4, 2010 • 2 Comments
'Quasi-Active' AlphaDEX ETFs Turn in Impressive Performance
Michael Johnston • Thu, May 27, 2010
Which Materials ETF Is Best for You?
Richard Shaw • Sat, Jan 2, 2010 • 21 Comments
Commodity Based Currencies: Long Term Prospects Are Bright
Dr. Kris • Thu, Aug 6, 2009 • 2 Comments
Heavy Call Buying in Materials ETF
optionMONSTER • Thu, May 21, 2009 • 2 Comments
A Better Way to Play With Materials
Condor Options • Tue, Jul 15, 2008

Sector-Specific Asset Bubbles
Stock Traders Daily • Wed, May 22
Will Wednesday's Fed Minutes Spark A Sell-Off?
Chris Ciovacco • Tue, May 21
S&P 500 Sector Breadth Levels
Bespoke Investment Group • Mon, May 13 • 3 Comments
Sell In May? Maybe A Little, But Rotate
Howard Reisman • Wed, May 8 • 19 Comments
Emerging Markets Vs. Domestic Markets: Can The Chart Recover?
Emerging Money • Fri, May 3
S&P 500 Sector Trading Range Charts
Bespoke Investment Group • Fri, May 3
A Case For Owning Commodities When No One Else Is
Frank Holmes • Thu, May 2 • 1 Comment
Best And Worst ETFs And Mutual Funds: Materials Sector
David Trainer • Tue, Apr 30 • 5 Comments
Market Update: Can An Extended S&P 500 See Further Gains?
Pendulum • Tue, Apr 30 • 16 Comments
Sector Rotation May Be Underway
David I. Templeton • Sun, Apr 28 • 15 Comments
Hedge Funds Are Buying 2 High-Growth Basic Materials Stocks With Encouraging Sales Trends
Kapitall • Thu, Apr 25 • 5 Comments
S&P 500 And Sector Trading Range Charts
Bespoke Investment Group • Wed, Apr 24
Still Cautiously Bullish On S&P 500 As The Stock Pickers' Market May Return
Pendulum • Mon, Apr 22
Market Correction: Where Is The Money Flowing?
Martin Vlcek • Fri, Apr 19 • 31 Comments
Tech Slips Into The Red
Bespoke Investment Group • Thu, Apr 18
Seeking Alpha: Momentum Investing With ETFs
Morningstar • Thu, Apr 18 • 15 Comments
Why Corporate Bond ETFs And Preferred ETFs Are Hitting New 52-Week Highs
Gary Gordon • Wed, Apr 17
This High-Growth Company Is A Good Addition To Any Portfolio
DNA Decoder • Wed, Apr 17 • 20 Comments
Dividend ETFs Make Swift Train Tracks
David Fabian • Tue, Apr 16 • 5 Comments
Cautious, Not Bearish, After Monday's S&P 500 Price Action
Pendulum • Tue, Apr 16 • 4 Comments

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J.J. Zhang's Winner Take All: Why being defensive has played well in this rally

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J.J. Zhang's Winner Take All: A stock strategy to weather the downturn

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Market Extra: As stocks extend gains, volume gets even thinner

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The Technical Indicator: Charting a volatility spike, and trend shift

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The Technical Indicator: Dow back for another crack at the 14,000 mark

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Howard Gold's No-Nonsense Investing: Here come the market leaders of 2013

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'This Is Now a Trader's Market': Pete Najarian

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Is Market Trough a Big Buying Opportunity?

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Outside the Box: Treasurys and dollars are your best bets now

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Harvesting profits and reseeding cash

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Investor Headache: Unexpected Market Ripple from Romney-Ryan

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Your First Move For Wednesday August 8th

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Bank of America up 2.8%; stocks fade at close

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Bank of America up 2.6% to lead Dow gains

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Tuesday, May 14, 10:42 AM "Contrarians should start buying emerging markets (EEM, DEM, VWO) and think about global energy (XLE) and material companies (XLB) and commodities (DBC)," says BAML's John Bilton, noting a "marked uptick" in concern about China (FXI, CAF) in his firm's latest fund manger survey. One-in-four now consider a Chinese hard landing as the biggest risk to their investment. Where respondents are not fearful? Japan (EWJ, DXJ). (previous) 4 Comments [Global & FX, Commodities]
Monday, May 6, 7:27 AM The S&P 500 (SPY) is fairly valued, says Goldman, but opportunity lies in cyclicals (XLY, XLE, XLI, XLB) which are more undervalued vs. defensives (XLU, XLP, XLV, XTL) than at any time in the last 15 years. "Given the 4 P/E multiple point head start, even a slight valuation normalization should translate into outperformance of cyclicals over defensives during the next 12 months." 1 Comment
Friday, May 3, 8:00 AM "We don't want to sell in May and we continue to prefer cyclicals (XLY, XLI, XLB, XLE) ," says JPMorgan's Tom Lee, fully returned to his normal bullish stance. He notes client positioning is "dramatically different" from the heavily long stance of the last 3 years at this time. More, the downturn in gasoline prices could ad 50 bps to GDP in Q2, and the rally in high-yield suggests the economy is set to get stronger. 1 Comment
Friday, April 26, 10:37 AM This week has seen a nice pickup in battered cyclical sectors, as the materials sector (XLB), the year’s second-worst performing group, began today as the week’s top gainer, rising 4.5%. Next was energy (XLE), the year’s third-weakest, up 3.2%. MKM Partners thinks it means the recent gains may morph into sustained momentum, and likes adding June calls in XLB and the oil service ETF (OIH). 1 Comment [Energy]
Friday, April 26, 8:34 AM The beginning of a bigger move? Two of the year's three strongest performing sectors - healthcare (XLV) and consumer staples (XLP) - are down on the week as the three weakest sectors - energy (XLE), materials (XLB), and tech (XLK) - post gains of 3%-4.5%. 2 Comments
Wednesday, April 24, 12:44 PM Stocks take more of a negative tone at midday, the DJIA (DIA) -0.3%, led by 5% declines in both AT&T and Procter & Gamble. Also notably in the red is the healthcare (XLV -1.2%) sector, but financials (XLF +0.5%), energy (XLE +1.4%), and materials (XLB +1.2%) are posting gains. The Nasdaq -0.4%, led by the aforementioned AT&T, Cisco, and Apple. 1 Comment
Tuesday, April 16, 11:29 AM Homebuilder stocks aren't taking much encouragement off the bigger number in Housing Starts today, as the underlying data doesn't appear to be strong enough to offset yesterday's drubbing: BZH -0.7%, TMHC -0.2%, HOV -0.2%, DHI +0.9%, KBH +0.5%, PHM +1.6%, LEN +0.9%, TOL +1%. Building materials suppliers on the other hand don't care what kind of homes are being built, and are having a much better day on the news: LII +2.3%, WSO +2%, SHW +3.3%, LPX +3.6%). Comment!
Tuesday, April 16, 9:25 AM There's not too many surprises in ETF action yesterday, with areas like the bond market (AGG), real estate (IYR), low volatility (SPLV), and pharmaceuticals (IHE) seeing big inflows, and small caps (IWM), energy (XLE), energy exploration (XOP), and materials (XLB) seeing a wave of cash exit. Comment!
Monday, April 15, 11:24 AM A 2.5% move up in Citigroup following earnings is allowing the banks (XLF) to tread water or even move higher in an otherwise bright red tape. Leading the S&P on the downside is the resources sector, XLE -2.9%, XLB -2.5%. S&P 500 (SPY) -0.7%. Comment! [Financials]
Friday, April 5, 3:03 PM An hour before the bell, stocks have pared back early losses, the S&P 500 -0.7%, the Nasdaq -0.9%. Getting the worst of it earlier in the week, the financials show a little relative strength, particularly AIG +2% (are traders sniffing out a buyback announcement?). Basic materials (XLB) sport some green as well, particularly independent oil and gas producers. 6 Comments
Wednesday, April 3, 2:11 PM Stocks are at session lows 2 hours before the bell, SPY -1.1%, QQQ -1%. Most sectors are lit up bright red, but financials - BAC -3.2%, JPM -2.7%, C -3.3% - lead the way down. Energy (XLE -2%) and resource stocks (XLB -1.3%) tumble along with commodity prices. Port in a storm, Apple gains 0.3%. Comment!
Tuesday, April 2, 1:22 PM Already the best sector YTD, Healthcare widens its lead even further thanks to hikes in Medicaid Advantage rates. The XLV's 17.1% gain is more than 200 bps greater than 2nd place Consumer Staples (XLP), and about 700 bps better than SPY. Getting a relative drubbing are Materials (XLB) and Tech (XLK) - each up less than 4%. Comment!
Wednesday, March 27, 3:07 PM Updating its ETF matrix, Bespoke finds all the major U.S. index ETFs up about 10% YTD, with the leading sectors health care (XLV) and consumer staples (XLP) - each up more than 13%. Dragging are telecom (IYZ), materials (XLB), and tech (XLK). About all country ETFs are in the red, with the exceptions of Japan (EWJ) and Mexico (EWW). Leading everything is natural gas (UNG), up 17.7%. Comment!
Friday, March 15, 10:14 AM Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLB) announces quarterly distribution of $0.1641. 30-day SEC yield of 2.22% (as of 03/14/2013). For shareholders of record Mar. 19. Payable Mar. 25. Ex-div date Mar. 15. Comment! [Dividends]
Monday, March 4, 2:09 PM Caterpillar (CAT -2.2%) is the Dow's worst performer today amid renewed concerns about economic growth in China. As China looks to curb rising home prices, the likely result would be lower demand for basic materials. The impact is hitting heavy equipment manufacturers such as Joy Global (JOY -3.9%), diversified miners including Cliffs Natural Resources (CLF -6%), and steelmakers (SLX -2.2%). Comment! [Global & FX, On the Move]
Thursday, February 21, 10:52 AM Strong performance in the financial sector (XLF) since last summer has been almost completely concentrated in the big caps, says Bespoke, but small and mid-cap financials have begun to show relative life over the past couple of weeks. Another strong sector - materials (XLB) - has been led by the smaller stocks, but everything has fallen off a cliff recently. Comment!

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Which Sectors Typically Outperform in March?: http://goo.gl/xLZCQ $SPY $XLF $XLB $XLI $XLY $XLK $XLP $XLV $XLE $XLU $DIA $QQQ
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Natural Resource Stocks To Reflate On China? Jan.10 by: Michael A. Gayed. $IGE $FXE $FXI $SPY $UNG $USO $XLB $XLE http://bit.ly/13llTLQ $TLT
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x oil -field: CNBC: According to the IEA, the shift of oil demand from the West to the East is now rapidly accelerating. $TNK http://bit.ly/10l7TD5
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Dr. Kris
In more risk-on news--sector highs: Financials $XLF, Insurance $KIE, Materials $XLB, Industrials $XLI.
Jan 10, 3:22 PM
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Dr. Kris: And pink bunny slippers.
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Option Millionaires
$XOM, $MON, $XLB, $XLE Sectors and stocks showing strength as inflation expectations rise to new highs. http://bit.ly/QSqxge
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Chicago Purchasing Managers Index Fizzles (XLI) (XLB) (XLP) (IYF)
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XLB - - http://bit.ly/Nz9iQD
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ETFs - GLD - USO - XLE - XLF - XLI - XLP - XLB: http://bit.ly/Nz9iQD
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Case Shiller Home Price Index Signals Market Recovery (SPY) (XLP) (VDC) (XLB)
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Wall Street Remains Closed On Tuesday, Set To Open Wednesday (SPY) (XLP) (VDC) (XLB)
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5 econ reports today fail to impress stocks (IYR) (XLY) (XLB) http://bit.ly/TZMwxZ
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In more risk-on news--sector highs: Financials $XLF, Insurance $KIE, Materials $XLB, Industrials $XLI.
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Cabeza Howe
Outperformers today: $XHB $XLI $XLY $XLB $XLF $KBE $CAF $GXC $FXI ($VRA $COH $PHM $TOL $CAT $CMI $YUM). Does this carry any meaning?
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Cabeza Howe: Dow Transport (5,156.54 +0.15%) doing fine too. $IYT
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Chines33
"I will pray for those long XLB overnight here" Keith McCullough lol
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Chines33: Wow.
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Chines33
LOL Keith McCullough "if you are long materials or XLB I will pray for you tonight" LOL
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brownlee30: lol
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James A. Kostohryz
Just took on some signifiant bearish exposure. Jan puts on $XLB, $XLB, $XLY, $IEZ, $GDX, $AMZN. Window for upside extension is closing.
11/4/11
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screamin187: I saw that as well James. Also noticed the cyclicals are in more pronounced downtrends than the indices. Emerging markets have chart damage.
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James A. Kostohryz: Correct. If you see the charts, retracements in the cyclical sectors are relatively weaker. From a bull perspective you want the opposite.
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Chines33
Short XLB 33.76 and CVX 106.34
10/26/11
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vinyal: i am on the other side of your trade. long ERX. Bought some GS
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Chines33: I am net Long
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