It’s tough to be a bear … is making money more important to you than being right? … the average investor has missed much of this bull market … how Luke Lango is positioning himselfHere’s a hypothetical:You can be right in your market analysis and yet lose money (or miss the chance to make money) …Or you can be “wrong” – meaning, you act contrary to your “correct” market belief – and yet make a boatload of money …Which would you prefer?Perhaps you find the answer obvious. But for many investors it’s not.Our ...

Investors are continuing to abandon Cathie Wood's flagship fund, ARK Innovation ETF ARKK. Over the past week, ARKK lost $151.2 million in AUM, representing about 2% of the fund.The exodus comes as ARKK continues to struggle in what has largely been a hot market. As of the time of writing, ARKK is down almost 7% since the markets closed in 2023. For comparison, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust SPY is up almost 8.5% in the same period.No Nvidia?Many investors pulling out of the fund are at odds with Wood's take on ...

Torsten Asmus The ARK Innovation ETF (NYSEARCA:ARKK) is profiting greatly from the rise of Bitcoin and the resurrection of the cryptocurrency market. The ARK Innovation ETF shot to fame during the pandemic which is when the ETF’s aggressive bets on a small number of high-potential stocks of companies in disruptive industries paid off big time. Since then, however, the exchange-traded fund has struggled with its concentrated investment approach and produced rather disappointing annual returns. Most recen ...

AXS Short Innovation Daily ETF SARK was trading near flat on Monday, while the Cathie Wood-led ARKK Innovation ETF ARKK was trading near Friday’s closing price.ARKK, Wood’s flagship fund, has shown weak performance compared to the general market for the last few years, failing to trade above the April 22, 2022, high of $55. In contrast, the S&P 500 has risen about 17% since that same date.SARK is an actively managed fund focused on shorting disruptive innovation by tracking its ETF counterpart, the AXS 2X I ...

ARK CEO Cathie Wood Calls NVIDIA A Massive Bubble - Is She Right? Shutterstock / JRdes Cathie Wood rose to fame thanks to the incredible performance of the ARK Innovation ETF (NYSE: ARKK) from 2016 to early 2021. The past three years haven’t been as kind to the ARK Innovation ETF, which still sits 70% below all-time highs reached in early 2021 even as the Nasdaq sets new highs.One reason for ARK’s struggles is that the fund sold NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) before its most recent run. Yet, Wood recently doubled ...

adventtr/E+ via Getty Images The iShares Exponential Technologies ETF (NASDAQ:XT) continues to be one of my go-to holdings for several reasons: 1. Market conditions are so wacky (technical term there) that I feel the need to have a representative position that grabs its fair share of a potential "moonshot" up move which could be either the blowoff phase of a dot-com like ending (as in 2000) or a name I'll keep adding to if I see more evidence of a 1995-1999 type of new long-term up leg. I may be a risk- ...

Marco Bello The rally since the bottom in US equities since October has been absolutely epic. I’ve been bullish on high growth/high beta names as evidenced in my work here on Seeking Alpha, but I’ll also note that equities have run further than I thought they would by this point. This is one of those bull market rallies that takes no prisoners and just keeps going, despite conditions being overbought and any number of fundamental factors saying we need a breather. One name that I’ve been bullish on that ...

Unless you’re heavily invested in some of the hot semiconductor stocks or the more magnificent members of the Magnificent Seven (perhaps soon to be called the Fantastic Four), odds are you may be trailing the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 on a year-to-date basis. Indeed, it’s nothing to beat yourself up over. Instead, it may be an opportunity to re-evaluate your portfolio’s overall exposure. If you’re like many investors sitting out the market’s run, you may be missing high-tech ETFs to watch.Undoubtedly, tech val ...

Cathie Wood seems to be having a bad start to 2024 considering investors have pulled close to $1.0 billion out of her flagship Ark Innovation ETF over the past two months.ARKK is significantly underperforming NASDAQCopy link to sectionInvestors are concerned because the “ARKK” continues to materially underperform the Nasdaq Composite – a fair comparison since that benchmark is also growth-oriented like Wood’s exchange-traded fund. Ark Innovation ETF is down nearly 3.0% year-to-date at writing versus Nasdaq ...

It has been a great few months for Cathie Wood as her Ark Innovation Fund (ARKK) has bounced back from its lowest level in 2023. It has jumped by over 73% and is now hovering near its highest point since August 2022. Some of its top holdings have become among the best-performing stocks in Wall Street. Coinbase, its biggest holding, has surged to its highest point since 2022 as Bitcoin and other altcoins have bounced back. It has soared by over 560% from its lowest level in 2023. Other companies in the ARKK ...