DDIV News and Press, First Trust Dorsey Wright Momentum & Dividend ETF From 01/05/24

2024-01-05 02:00:00 ET Summary The year started out with a massive run up in treasury yields that began in mid-2020 nearly resulted in financial catastrophe for the US banking industry. 2023 was another year in which geopolitics remained center-stage for global investors. For ...

2024-01-04 00:30:00 ET Summary The S&P 500 is still within 2% of its record closing high reached exactly two years ago on January 3rd, but beneath the surface, there have been some big moves. While the S&P 500 is down 1.9% from its high, over that same period, the ‘...

2024-01-03 11:15:00 ET Summary Assets bid up by irrational amounts eventually end up on clearance sale. Large-cap companies are typically more financially stable but still saw a tripling of the negative earnings share during past recessions. January clocks stock market gains f...

2024-01-01 20:30:00 ET Summary The forward 4-quarter estimate (FFQE) ended 2023 at $234.60, versus the $235.77 from mid-Dec ’23. The P/E on the forward estimate is 20.3x versus the 20x from mid-December ’23. The S&P 500 earnings yield (EY) has settled in the ...

2024-01-01 19:40:00 ET Summary In 2023, there were a total of 560 earnings triple plays during the year, and the average one-day performance of the companies reporting them was a gain of 6.10%. Within those 560 reports, 32 companies managed to report three or more triple plays, si...

2023-12-30 11:53:38 ET Summary The C/C Ratio is now the only control in the investment strategy since the adoption of online savings accounts in 2020. The S&P 500 Index has become a dual-control system in the investment strategy. The recent surge in the S&P 500 Index h...

2023-12-25 03:12:00 ET Summary Calendar 2023 is a perfect example of the S&P 500 returning 24-25%, with one week left in the year, while S&P 500 earnings are up just 2% before we’ve seen Q4 ’23 earnings. There is no question that 2023 is a year of P/E expansi...

2023-12-24 01:02:00 ET Summary The S&P 500's 10-day advance-decline line has shown positive readings 57.9% of the time in 2023 and is right in line with the annual average dating back to 1990. The 10-day advance-decline line has pretty consistently sat at least one standard de...

2023-12-19 04:08:00 ET Summary The SPX index closed out the week at 4719.19, almost a 2.5% increase over where it closed the previous week. After the bulls were let loose on Wednesday, the S&P drifted slightly higher through the rest of the week as Fed officials sought to walk...

2023-12-16 07:10:00 ET Summary Speculative bubbles collapse when investor psychology shifts from speculation to risk-aversion. The uniformity of market internals is a key gauge of speculative psychology and market conditions. Current market internals remain divergent, indicati...