ETFs with Surge in Value Traded for Week of 5/8/09
Here are the ten ETFs with the largest increase in value traded (VT) for the week ending May 08, 2009. The ranking is based on a simple comparison of the five-day average value traded (closing price times volume) versus the 50-day average. Topping the list this week is Claymore/Sabrient Insider (NFO),...
ETF Stats – April 2009
The month of April brought seven new ETFs and one new ETN to market. Additionally, three ETNs left the scene while all ETFs remained active. With all changes netted out, there were a total of 844 (759 ETFs and 85 ETNs) exchange traded products listed at the end of April. This is a net increase of...
AMJ: New ETN Offers More Access to Master LP Market
Last month a new exchange-traded note slipped under the radar and received very little notice. The JPMorgan Alerian MLP Index ETN began trading under the ticker AMJ on April 2. AMJ tracks an index of Master Limited Partnerships – partnerships that trade on U.S. exchanges and are usually connected...
Gold, Uranium, and Copper – Oh My! (FRG)
Certain commodities are getting hot again. Now trading around $910, gold has proven to be relatively resilient and may reach $1000 in a few weeks. But gold isn’t alone; copper is rising too. Copper fell 50% from last summer’s highs, but since December it has trended upward despite stock market...
Fronteer Development (FRG) Idea on Video
John “Rogue” Schloegel discusses the merits of owning shares of Fronteer Development (FRG) in the current market environment. A “reflation theme” play with commodity exposure to gold, uranium, and copper. FRG’s balance sheet is rock solid and the upside based on their gold...
WisdomTree Launches Emerging Currency ETF
Foreign currencies have been all the rage in the ETF business for the last couple of years. The major currencies are all well-represented and in some cases can be traded in leveraged and inverse versions as well. Product developers, looking for new ways to attract assets, are now going further out...
Thomas Jefferson On Government Economic Intervention
Thomas Jefferson would be surprised. The third president of the United States may have preferred an agrarian economy. He may not have waxed eloquent on modern economic theories. However, he helped lay the foundation for our exalted economic status in the world. He can still contribute to the financial...
Grail Active ETF Launched: Is the Market Ready?
Ready or not – here they come. Today (5/4/09), Grail Advisors launched the Grail American Beacon Large Cap Value ETF (GVT). Billed as the first “qualitative” actively managed ETF, it joins a lineup of “quantitative” actively managed ETFs from PowerShares. The Grail...
ETF Deathwatch – May 2009
The number of exchange-traded products on Deathwatch decreased for the second month in a row. It would be premature to declare that the peak is now behind us, because I would not be surprised to see additional recession-related declines in trading activity for some ETFs in the months ahead. This...
ETFs with Surge in Value Traded
Here are the ten ETFs with the largest increase in value traded (VT) for the week ending May 01, 2009. The ranking is based on a simple comparison of the five-day average value traded (closing price times volume) versus the 50-day average. Swine flu related ETFs had a significant increase in trading...
