Risky Business Monitor: Oct. 27, 2014

The Federal Open Market Committee appears poised to announce the conclusion of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s current quantitative-easing program, aka QE3+, Wednesday. If the FOMC does it, then I believe the present equity-market bubble may begin deflating immediately thereafter. If the FOMC does not do it, then I think the stock-market bubble might remain inflated a while longer.

Meanwhile, our droogies at Seeking Alpha published this month 13 of my articles focused on the behaviors of carefully chosen exchange-traded funds during the first three quarters of the year. I employ multiple metrics to monitor 12 of these ETFs on a daily basis and one of them on a periodic basis because I believe their relative performances speak volumes about the condition of the market. Below are links to all these stories:

SPDR S&P 500 ETF: SPY’s 2014 Third-Quarter Performance And Seasonality

SPDR S&P MidCap 400 ETF: MDY’s 2014 Third-Quarter Performance And Seasonality

IShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF: IJR’s 2014 Third Quarter Performance And Seasonality

PowerShares QQQ’s 2014 Third-Quarter Performance And Seasonality

Health Care ETF: No. 1 Select Sector SPDR Over 2014’s First 9 Months

Utilities ETF: No. 2 Select Sector SPDR Over 2014’s First 9 Months

Technology ETF: No. 3 Select Sector SPDR Over 2014’s First 9 Months

Materials ETF: No. 4 Select Sector SPDR Over 2014’s First 9 Months

Financial ETF: No. 5 Select Sector SPDR Over 2014’s First 9 Months

Consumer Staples ETF: No. 6 Select Sector SPDR Over 2014’s First 9 Months

Energy ETF: No. 7 Select Sector SPDR Over 2014’s First 9 Months

Industrial ETF: No. 8 Select Sector SPDR Over 2014’s First 9 Months

Consumer Discretionary ETF: No. 9 Select Sector SPDR Over 2014’s First 9 Months

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