Emerging Market ETFs

Here is the ETF Professor's ETF Watch List for Monday February 13, 2012. Pullback plays: ProShares Ultra QQQ (NYSE: QQQ) and the ProShares UltraShort S&P500 (NYSE: SDS). The Market Vectors Coal ETF (NYSE: KOL) is looking a tad vulnerable. The iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF (Nasdaq: IBB)...

Claymore/MAC Global Solar Index (ETF) (NYSEARCA: TAN) dropped 8.24% on Friday as First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) plunged 10.43%, and Trina Solar Limited (ADR) (NYSE: TSL) slipped 7.31%. Direxion Daily Russia Bull 3x Shares (NYSEARCA: RUSL) fell 7.59% today, and it closed at $46.40. RUSL had a...

VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX Short Term ETN (NYSEARCA: TVIX) spiked 17.04% on Friday, and it closed at $19.05. This was the fourth trading session in a row that TVIX closed higher. Direxion Daily Emerging Markets Bear 3x Shares(ETF) (NYSEARCA: EDZ) jumped 6.48% as Petroleo Brasileiro SA (ADR) (...

Here we are nearly two months into 2012 and we're still talking about Greece. Stalled negotiations regarding a bailout package for the "G" in oft-used and notorious PIIGS acronym led to some panic selling at the open today. The totals weren't as bad at the close as they were in the morning, but...

Emerging markets are selling at relatively cheap valuations, it seems to me, and the low valuations of many of the stocks and indexes seem more about fear than about the downside revisions that are happening in GDP. Many emerging markets indexes and ETFs are selling at about 10 times earnings,...

Today is one of those days where, all of a sudden, conservative plays look very attractive. When it comes to ETFs, "conservative" often means dabbling in the consumer staples arena and that often means a visit to the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLP). Or it could mean investing in...

The reasons are plentiful regarding why investors and even active traders should tread carefully with leveraged and inverse ETFs but if today's market pullback sticks around for a while, the utility of these ETFs (when properly used) has the potential to shine. Inverse ETFs are probably the best...

Chinese imports plummeted during the month of January, signaling that the rapid economic growth of the world's second biggest economy might be slowing down. Chinese imports dropped 15.3% in January, compared to the same month last year, while exports fell by just 0.5%. The sudden drop in imports...

Lot of ETFs and ETNs are positive year-to-date. That's no exactly breaking news two weeks into February. Well, lots of exchange traded products residing well into the green can also mean a lot are overbought. Indeed, the number is high. Over 500 ETFs and ETNs, more than a third of the the entire...

Here is the ETF Professor's ETF Watch List for Friday February 10, 2012. Play a little defense with the Health Care Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLV). The ProShares UltraShort Oil & Gas (NYSE: DUG) is worth a look for a day. Earnings plays: SPDR S&P International Energy ETF (NYSE: IPW) and...