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Double Exposure Exchange Traded Funds
2008-04-09 00:40:00 If you ever watch BNN you're bound to see Howard Atkinson promoting Horizons BetaPro ETFs which allow you to "profit or protect" in an up or down market. Their lineup of ETFs are more than just index tracking exchange traded funds - they also return 200% of the daily performance of the indices in question. Not only that, they offer a Bull and Bear version of each "double exposure" ETF. The Bull version gives you 200% of the daily performance of the underlying index while the Bear version gives you 200% of the INVERSE daily performance. (Horizons BetaPro are not the only company offering double and double inverse exposure ETFs.)What does this mean? Let's say your index goes up 1% today. The Bull version of the ETF should be up 2%. The Bear version should be DOWN 2%.If the underlying index is down 2%, then the Bull version is down 4% and the Bear version is UP 4%.There is a reason they always stress 200% of the DAILY performance. You cannot just take the 1 year, ...
All about Exchange Traded Funds ????????????
2008-04-01 13:59:00 All about Exchange Traded Funds????????????# Author: Jr., Archie Richards# Publisher: McGraw-Hill # Number Of Pages: 292 # Publication Date: 2002-07-15 # ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0071393021 # ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780071393027 ALL ABOUT . . . SERIESAll AboutEXCHANGE-TRADED FUNDSExchange-traded funds, priced like a stock and traded continuously throughout the day, are the hottest thing in investing today. All About Exchange-Traded Funds is one of the first introductory guides to provide investors with the nuts-and-bolts aspects of ETFs, from various types and basic trading rules to effective trading strategies for building core assets.
ETF Profit Driver - Another Reason To Favor Exchange Traded Funds
2008-03-30 19:05:00 Bill Poulos has developed a comprehensive course designed exclusively for use with Exchange Traded Funds. ETF Profit Driver consists of four trading methods that, when used with ETF's, offer earnings potential that will make you question why your capital is tied up in mutual funds. Based on a study conducted a few years back, about 10% of all long-term mutual-fund assets were held in index funds. Those funds offer comparatively low fees track indexes familiar to most investors. The drawback of index fund investing has been holding those positions during market downturns. In the past several years Exchange Traded Funds have started opening up significant new investment strategies. While ETF behave much like traditional index mutual funds, they have key differences. Exchange Traded Funds are actively traded on electronic exchanges, allowing you to open and close positions during market hours. They also offer highly liquid option chains, further expanding their use as an investment a...
Exchange Traded Funds - Today?s Alternative to Mutual Funds
2008-03-24 14:59:00 Exchange traded funds are becoming more popular every day. Many of the large investing web sites have whole sections dedicated to the topic of exchange traded funds (or ETFs as they are commonly labelled.) Why all the attention to this new class of investments. Some Advantages of ETFs The most widely touted advantage of ...
By: Personal Finance
Fancy Exchange Traded Funds for all Appetites
2008-01-30 10:42:00 ETF’s are a relatively safe way to invest in the stock market. It is often the preferred way to invest for inexperienced investors or those who don’t have much to invest. It allows you to diversify even the smallest of portfolio’s without the cost of buying many different stocks. With the markets in recession mode, here are some ETF’s that you might consider:MOO – Agriculture is one of the more bullish areas of the market and this is a good way to play the sector. This ETF has 3 of my favorite names in agriculture including Monsanto (MON), Mosaic (MOS) and potash (POT). A recent 15% pull-back presents a great buying opportunity.TAO – This ETF covers the real estate market in China, Hong Kong and Macau. While some of the high flying Chinese stocks and the major indices in Shanghai are due for a pull-back, China is still growing at over 11% and wealth creation is in full swing. As more people migrate to the middle-class, there will be an increase in urbanization, resulting...
GOLD EXCHANGE TRADED FUNDS
2008-01-24 13:14:00 Gold ETF’s are open ended scheams that invest the money collected from the investors into the gold bullion. The investors holding will be denoted in units, which will be listed in a stock market. These are passively managed funds and are designed to provide returns that would closely track the returns from physical gold in the stop market.Investor can buy and redeem the units directly from the mutual funds or from the stock exchange. There are GOLD ETF available in the stock markets of most of the developed countries.Requirements to choose the Gold ETF:Gold holds it weightage in any investment evaluation and also work as a hedge product against inflation. Gold value remains unchanged in the events of any political uncertainties and it is traditionally negatively co-related with other asset classes such as stocks, fixed income securities and commodities.The value of good and services gold can buy has remained stable unlike currencies that have seen significant fluctuations.Gold pro...
By: Investinternals
No Load Mutual Funds or Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)?
2007-12-25 00:00:00 If you are fed up with early redemption charges and ever increasing mutual fund management fees on top of bad-performing fund managers, read on. There is a quiet revolution going on in the no-load mutual fund industry and you, the individual investor, may benefit from it greatly. I am referring to Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), which ...
By: Trading Studio
Two New Exchange Traded Funds Allow Unique Oil Investment Strategies
2007-11-25 00:00:00 Investors can now track the price of oil futures without buying oil futures through a new Exchange Traded Fund. (UCR), operated by Claymore Securities. The thing that makes this unique is that the ETF does not invest in the futures either. “We’re not buying oil, but because we issue shares in pairs we can generate ...
Best Performing Exchange Traded Funds for 2006 Thru August
2007-11-25 00:00:00 Now that we are approaching Labor Day we are at a transformation point for the trading year. The slow low volume trading of summer is about to come to an end and we are likely to see higher trading volumes going into the fall. Looking at the top ten ETFs for this year so far, we ...
Exchange Traded Funds Venture Further Into Foreign Currency Markets
2007-11-25 00:00:00 In December of 2005, Rydex listed the Euro Currency Trust (FXE) Exchange Traded Fund. This was the first Exchange Traded Fund that allowed investors to enter the currency markets through investing in Exchange Traded funds. With the falling dollar this fund this fund has done well considering the recent market conditions. Rydex will now give investors ...
One of the Most Popular Exchange Traded Funds Will Soon have Solid Competit
2007-11-25 00:00:00 One of the most popular Exchange Traded Funds, the NASDAQ 100 Trust, known as the cubes, may be soon having some strong competition. The cubes (QQQQ) have been the default Fund for the tech industry. This may be about to change. A new exchange traded fund due to be introduced next year is being planned by ...
Making Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) Work for You
2007-11-17 00:00:00 Exchange traded funds are index funds which have advantages over open-end index mutual funds. ETFs trade all day long on the stock exchanges, may be purchased through any broker, have lower fund expenses than mutual funds, and have less likelihood of generating unwanted taxable gains than mutual funds. There are a number of ...
Adventures in Global Exchange Traded Funds
2007-11-17 00:00:00 Global exchange traded funds are not as complicated as the name implies. Below are some easy steps to creating a successful and profitable ETF portfolio. For anyone who is interested in any type of investing is it important first create and maintain a rainy day fund. This is 6 months of income placed into a ...
Making Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) Work for You
2007-11-14 20:06:00 Exchange traded funds are index funds which have advantages over open-end index mutual funds. ETFs trade all day long on the stock exchanges, may be purchased through any broker, have lower fund expenses than mutual funds, and have less likelihood of generating unwanted taxable gains than mutual funds. (See The ABCs of ETFs – Exchange Traded Funds). There are a number of reasons, which we’ll discuss, for investing in index funds (ETFs or mutual funds) but let’s start with the fact that the S&P 500 index beats 80% of all actively managed funds. (And, an index fund has lower expenses than an actively managed fund, further enhancing its net return.) If you can invest in an index fund and be in the top 20 percentile of fund returns, that’s a pretty good place to start. You can construct a well-diversified portfolio entirely out of ETFs. There are ETFs for almost every type of investment you can im...
The ABCs of Exchange Traded Funds
2007-11-14 00:00:00 Every investor should consider Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). The younger brother of open-end index mutual funds is growing up fast and showing greater versatility. ETFs are open-end index mutual funds that trade like stocks (and closed-end mutual funds). There are three legal structures of ETFs: Open-end mutual fund (the difference ...
The ABCs of ETFs - Exchange Traded Funds
2007-11-07 15:38:00 Every investor should consider Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). The younger brother of open-end index mutual funds is growing up fast and showing greater versatility. ETFs defined ETFs are open-end index mutual funds that trade like stocks (and closed-end mutual funds). Types of ETFs There are three legal structures of ETFs: Open-end mutual fund (the difference between the ETF structure and a open-end mutual fund is the ETF is exchange traded, whereas the traditional mutual fund is purchased and redeemed by the fund itself), Unit investment trust and Grantor trust. The open-end mutual fund structure has a diversification requirement, mandated by the Investment Company Act of 1940, which limit how it mimics some smaller or specialized indices and could result in a tracking error. The other principal difference for the investor is that other than the open-end mutual fund, dividends must be paid out in cash to investors (of cours...
Exchange Traded Funds (ETF): New Wave or Riptide?
2007-11-01 09:23:00 There was an excellent article discussing the pros and cons of investing in Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) in the July 3rd Wall Street Journal: As ETFs Seek Niches, Risks Rise (unfortunately, The Wall Street Journal doesn’t allow us to link to their articles, perhaps that will change after Rupert Murdoch buys Dow Jones.) There’s over ...
Exchange Traded Funds
2007-08-03 02:27:00 Think of Exchange Traded Funds like mutual funds that are traded like a regular stock. A bundle of stocks, commodities or even other ETFs - exchange traded funds have taken on a life of their own - not unlike the explosion of mutual funds in the 80’s and 90’s (did you know that there ...
Trading Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs)
2007-07-12 10:24:00 Exchange-traded funds or ETF are traded just like the stocks. They are funds traded in exchanged like the stocks. Traders can buy them, hold them and sell them when ever they want. ETF have same set up like the mutual funds but with the ever changing net-asset value; the net-asset value (NAV) of mutual funds are calculated on daily basis.Most of the ETF are based on indexes of different stock exchanges, Like Spiders (SPDRs) for S&P 500 index and Cubes (QQQQ) for Nasdaq 100 index. Sector wise or industry wise ETFs are also available for trading which are based on different sector wise indices of exchanges like Vanguard?s Health Care Viper for Health Care Sector stock index. Other major types includes those based on indices of large cap, mid-cap and small-cap stocks, value stocks, growth stocks, foreign country exchanges, metals etc.Now there is a marked surge in the number of ETF fund traded in various exchanges. Currently there are more then 400 ETF funds available for trading. But...
Mutual Funds VS Exchange Traded Funds
2007-07-01 15:49:00 I have been seeing many posters on Exchanged Traded Funds (ETFs) recently and they are basically promoting ETFs as having superior performance compared to Mutual Funds. Of course, there are many people who would look at these posters and shout “Oh! It’s SGX who puts up these posters, they got to be right since they ...
No Load Mutual Funds or Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)?
2003-08-16 10:34:00 If you are fed up with early redemption charges and ever increasing mutual fund management fees on top of bad-performing fund managers, read on. There is a quiet revolution going on in the no-load mutual fund industry and you, the individual investor, may benefit from it greatly. I am referring to Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), which have been around for years, but have grown tremendously since |
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