Financial Tides -- A Stock Market Investing Newsletter by Jim Van Meerten: 2015-09-27

Friday, October 2, 2015

State of the Markets

The portfolio below shows what I consider a very diversified portfolio not only of the US investment markets but world wide as well. I consider any data over a year old as irrelevant so as you can see the Weighted Alpha and the Percentage Off the 1 year high are my longest parameters and the 14 Day Relative Strength Index is the shortest. I find my best results with stocks but especially with ETFs has been with investments having a Weighted Alpha of at least 50.00+, a Today's Opinion of 80% or better and a buy signal on the 50-100 Day MACD Oscillator.

I like to compare all the Index ETFs to the Value Line Arithmetic Index and the Russell 3000 Index but at the same time a positive return is what counts.

Sym	Name	Last	Weighted Alpha	Today's Opinion	50-100 Day MACD Osc	Trend Spotter	14-Day Rel Str	1-Month Percent	3-Month Percent	6-Month Percent	12-Month % High
$VLA	Value Line Index	4,207.34	-9.53	96% Sell	Sell	Sell	36.94%	-2.63%	-11.73%	-12.57%	-14.81%
$RUA	Russell 3000 Index	1,142.46	-6.13	80% Sell	Sell	Sell	41.91%	-0.04%	-8.14%	-7.54%	-10.46%
IVV	S&P 500 Index Ishare	193.24	-6.18	56% Sell	Sell	Sell	42.84%	+0.26%	-7.47%	-6.73%	-10.22%
IJH	S&P Midcap 400 Index	136.31	-5.03	80% Sell	Sell	Sell	38.17%	-0.94%	-9.39%	-10.01%	-12.13%
IJR	S&P Smallcap 600 Ind	106.16	-3.94	96% Sell	Sell	Sell	36.53%	-1.54%	-10.38%	-9.93%	-13.05%
IWC	Russell Microcap Ind	69.36	-7.53	96% Sell	Sell	Sell	31.43%	-4.27%	-14.94%	-12.58%	-17.70%
QQQ	Powershares QQQ	102.22	+0.04	80% Sell	Sell	Sell	43.57%	+1.16%	-5.28%	-2.69%	-10.64%
ICF	Realty Majors Cohen	93.04	+4.16	8% Sell	Sell	Sell	54.70%	+5.56%	+2.11%	-7.64%	-13.38%
JNK	SPDR High Yield Bond	35.37	-13.92	100% Sell	Sell	Sell	19.80%	-3.52%	-7.65%	-9.61%	-12.80%
EFA	EAFE Index MSCI Isha	57.50	-12.10	72% Sell	Sell	Sell	41.69%	-0.79%	-10.02%	-11.03%	-16.07%
BKF	BRIC Index MSCI Isha	29.82	-24.42	72% Sell	Sell	Sell	45.30%	+1.77%	-19.77%	-19.67%	-28.49%
EEM	Emrg Mkts Index MSCI	32.96	-23.91	56% Sell	Sell	Sell	46.45%	+1.32%	-16.75%	-18.88%	-25.41%
FM	MSCI Frontier 100	25.07	-33.77	96% Sell	Sell	Sell	32.34%	-4.06%	-13.97%	-18.34%	-35.12%
OIL	S&P GSCI Crude Oil	8.41	-58.32	32% Sell	Sell	Hold	48.25%	-0.71%	-26.87%	-19.98%	-62.52%
IAU	Gold Trust Ishares	10.76	-8.38	40% Sell	Sell	Hold	43.82%	-2.36%	-4.78%	-7.64%	-14.94%