Digital/Synthetic Biology (Raymond McCauley) - Exponential Finance 2014

Biotechnology & Health Care Stocks & ETFs Continue To Lead The Stock Market Higher

Biotechnology and health care stocks and ETFs continue to lead the market.  This is becoming a dominant theme within the broad technology sector.  It is likely that health care and biotechnology stocks continue to grow in relative market cap weight in the major US indices (i.e. NASDAQ 100 & S&P 500).

Biotechnology ETFs post new 52 week highs

Amgen Breaks Out Of Very Long Term Base Pattern

Amgen is an extremely interesting company in an extremely interesting position.  They are one of the largest manufacturers of biologic pharmaceuticals in the world.  The market for this type of pharmacotherapy is expanding exponentially.  From a technical perspective, Amgen has a very bullish price chart.  It has broken out of a multi year period of price consolidation that has lasted approximately 11 years.  This uptrend could last a decade or more...

Big Pharma And Health Care Stocks Enter Year II Of Secular Bull Market

After a long, dark 10+ year secular bear market for mega cap drug companies plagued with expiring patents on blockbuster medications, a new secular bull market has now emerged.  We are currently in year II of the massive uptrend if you consider that XLV posted new multi-year highs in 2012.  JNJ is the ultimate bellwether for the health care sector and is also well on its way to higher highs.  Other mega cap drug companies (PFE, MRK and BMY) are nearing their old 2000 era highs now.  They will likely pause before smashing through these levels in the coming months (but one can never be too sure).  The biotechnology companies are leading the entire health care sector and will likely dominate the industry in the years to come.

IBB vs. FBT Extreme Biotechnology ETFs

If you can stomach extreme volatility (ie. a near 50% correction like in 2011), FBT by First Trust is the ultra biotechnology ETF.  They're also the creators of FDN, the Dow Jones Internet Index ETF which is also on fire (it's 10% GOOG).