User 86999

Commodity ETFs Overbought; Gold Least So

Even the numbers are getting all mixed up. Throwing in standard deviation and percentages together doesn't make sense. On a bell curve, the relationship between the two is well known but requires a lookup to make sense of the relationship. The difference between 2% overbought and 10% overbought may not be statistically significant on the curve. What a waste of time!

Watch For Sector Overlap In Emerging Market ETFs

Yahoo charts are usually incorrect!
Here is the gur/ilf/epp performance at bigcharts.com:
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ETFs That Can See You Through the Turbulent Markets

BWX may yield 4.35%, but it has lost 8.4% in its price since 11/26 high of 56.47. So basically, in just 14 days, an investor would have lost whatever he would receive in 2 years. Looks too risky!

The 13 Basis Point Portfolio

That's a constant, regardless of what etf you choose, however, it becomes a variable if you ponder the depth of the portfolio, meaning the count of different etfs you choose to make up a portfolio.