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Friday, November 20, 2009

What To Know About ETF Trading

By Patrick Deaton

An exchange traded fund -- which is what an ETF is -- can be a great investment vehicle for those who are looking for solid rates of return on investment and who have the time to delve a little into the intricacies of ETF trading. Basically, ETFs are what are called "index funds" because they track one of the major market indexes out there, such as the S&P 500.

ETFs can also be trusts. At any rate, they are set up much like a mutual fund is, and they have a solid basket of market securities contained within. They are listed on the stock exchanges and are traded all throughout the trading day, which is sometimes known as intraday trading. Looking at trading activities in an ETF on the trading day basis is a good way to go about making money from one.

There are over 100 different exchange traded funds listed by the American Stock Exchange. These funds represent a wide range of indexes and market sectors, including industries, all of the broader stock market indexes, most sectors in the markets and also international regions around the world. An ETF can also engage in representation of Treasury and corporate bond indexes.

Investors who wish to participate in ETF trading sell or buy shares in the collective performance of one or several of an entire portfolio of bonds or stocks as a single security. As an arrangement, there are many benefits to doing so. This includes combining liquidity of stock investing with all the benefits of investing using traditional fund indexing.

Any size investor (large institutional or small individual) will readily see the numerous advantages to participation in an exchange traded fund. Small investors normally are participating through a trading system, so keep that in mind. Costs involved in running an ETF are usually much lower and -- as they are not indexed based -- management fees are also very low.

The reason this is so is because most ETFs aren't actively managed throughout the trading day. They moved on much broader scales than what day traders engage in out in the markets. Another way of saying this is that there is not a great deal of movement in the fun that requires management to get involved in. Most studies point out that there's really no difference between actively managed funds and these.

ETFs can operate in this way (meaning non-active management) because they tie their net asset value on each trading day to the assets that underlie the fund. This can make an ETF extremely transparent because it tends to replicate the holdings that are contained in the index that the ETF is tied to and which it tracks on a daily and intraday basis.

Many small investors of the non-institutional variety go one of two ways when trading in an ETF; they usually trade all day or they make their moves to single trades carried out at at the end of the day. There is really no restriction placed upon trading activities by the ETF when it comes to this, though. ETF trading, then, usually turns out to be very easy. - 23208

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