The USDA had no surprises for corn and beans last week. Now the market will wait for national yield estimates in the August USDA report. 25% of the corn belt is dry, so the next 2 weeks will be ...

The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index has lost its momentum lately on surging yields, which has led to fears of overvaluation. In fact, the tech sector, which outperformed during the pandemic and has ...

These funds seek to generate returns equal to an inverse fixed multiple of short-term returns of an equity index. The compounding of short-term returns results in performance that does not correspond ...

Suppose you believe that the market is going to go down, what would you do? The normal answer is sell what you have and get out. However, what if you have nothing to sell? Until a couple of years ago, ...

With thousands of exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, out there, it's easy for investors to pick a specific strategy and buy into it with just a single holding. Want to invest in tech stocks? There are ...

A version of this article was published in the July 2016 issue of Morningstar ETFInvestor. Download a complimentary copy of ETFInvestor here. It is hard to overstate the risks of owning leveraged and ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on an implementation of the technique that emphasizes simplicity and ease-of-modification over robustness and ...

Inverse ETFs are investment vehicles designed to deliver daily returns opposite to a specific index, using derivatives like futures to hedge against market declines or capitalize on bearish trends. As ...

With gold's downward momentum accelerating, interest is climbing in inverse gold ETF and ETN products. In order to help investors sort through the details of this space, this article will quickly ...