Despite a mostly favorable stock market in 2019, over-hyped IPOs like Lyft and Uber disappointed. This is an excerpt from ETFguide TV about the Cooling IPO Market and the Surprising Performance of IPO focused ETFswith Ron DeLegge at ETFguide.
Stocks were hot, but initial public offerings,
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Sitting atop this year’s performance gainers are leveraged ETFs. These are funds that use a combination of debt and derivatives to magnify their performance. Are leveraged ETFs right for you?
Before tackling this question, let’s examine key trends within this arena.
Among this year’s best ETFs are funds concentrated in semiconductors (NYSEARCA:SOXL),
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Stock market volatility ain’t what it used to be. And unlike recent years, the VIX, a benchmark of volatility in S&P 500 stocks, (NYSEARCA:VOO) has been consistently up in 2016.
The chart below illustrates how market conditions and stock market volatility or VIX (ChicagoOptions:^VIX) have dramatically changed over the past 52-weeks.
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Imagine hiring a builder to construct you a home. You tell the builder how you want the home to look and you tell them about all your desired features.
Instead of showing you a blueprint, the builder starts construction and a short-time later, your house is completed. But there’s a very big problem: The home’s final design is nothing like what you imagined,
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Stock market volatility creeps up when most investors least expect it. But even more intriguing about the latest upward explosion in equity volatility is that it occurred on small percentage losses in major stock index benchmarks like the S&P 500 (NYSEARCA:SPY) and Russell Small Cap 2000 (NYSEARCA:IWM).
(Audio) Portfolio Report Card: Diseccting a $1.2 Million Portfolio
From June 14 to July 9,
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