(ETFTrends.com by Todd Shriber): "Betting on insider buying is again proving to be an efficacious strategy as the Direxion All Cap Insider Sentiment Shares (NYSEArca: KNOW) has been noticeably less bad than the S&P 500 to start 2015. Add to that, investors are warming to the merits of KNOW's insider sentiment strategy." [Editor's note: KNOW tracks the Sabrient Multi-cap Insider/Analyst Quant-Weighted Index (SBRQAM)]. Read article

KNOW, the Direxion All-Cap Insider Sentiment Shares ETF, is ETF Trends' "Chart of the  Day."  KNOW tracks Sabrient's Multi-Cap Insider/Analyst Quant-Weighted Index.

"First Trust, the sixth-largest U.S. issuer of exchange traded funds, will introduce the First Trust Long/Short Equity ETF (NYSEArca: FTLS). The new actively managed ETF can take long and short positions in U.S. and international equities, using earnings quality as a primary determinant of stock selection."  Read ETF Trends article.

Gradient Senior Analyst Nicholas Yee reports on six companies that are using a variety of techniques to shift pretax profits to lower-tax areas. Featured in this USA Today, article, the companies include CELG, ALTR, VMW, NVDA, LRCX, and SNPS. Read more

Brent Miller, CFA, has been named president and chief operating officer of Gradient Analytics, a Sabrient subsidiary, among other staff changes. More

David Brown is on a speaking tour on behalf of  the Baker's Dozen Unit Investment Trust (UIT).  Publication of "What the Market Wants" will resume next week.

Sabrient's Baker's Dozen 2013 is up 37.24% since January 11, 2013.  The top 5 performers are EPL +80.10%, GNW +71.27%,  JAZZ +53.61%, STX +50.32%, and OCN +47.91%.  All 13 stocks are positive; 12 have double-digit gains, and the only single-digit performer, ASH, is doing fine at +8.09%.Baker's Dozen 2013 up 37.24% YTD.

You can track the Baker's Dozen performance here

The Sabrient Earnings Busters Q4 is up 4.05% since October 1.  Its top five include SAVE +25.40%, WOR +16.46%, EPL +13.78%, BC +12.06%, and CTRX +9.52%.  Seventy-five percent of the 20 stocks are in positive territory.

Sabrient's Earnings Busters Q Series, first launched in April of this year, has had outstanding success.  The Q2 2013 portfolio – the first in the Earnings Busters Q Series -- gained +12.25% in the second quarter.

As of September 19, the Q3 2013 portfolio is up +5.68%. Fourteen of the 20 stocks—70%—are positive, with the top 5 performers boasting double-digit gains.  You can sign up for Q4 here.

The Q Series is predicated on the same that produced the award-winning Baker's Dozen portfolio for the past five years. The shorter-term Earnings Busters Q Series is living up to its name and its lineage.

"The Pain in Spain: More Room for a Short ETF Bet?"

Sabrient's Daniel Sckolnik was quoted at length in this article by Ronald Fink in Institutional Investor: