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Monday, December 21, 2009

Making An ETF Trading System Work For You

By Patrick Deaton

If you're a small investor -- which most of us are, in relative terms -- you'll need an ETF trading system if you want to trade in an ETF itself. These exchange traded funds are potentially excellent investment vehicles which are basically trusts or index funds that represent a broad basket of securities of all types.

These ETFs also resemble mutual funds in the way they are constituted and ran. Additionally, picture a stock from a corporation and how it is traded and you'll have a fairly clear understanding of how many investors can get into an ETF and actually do fairly well at. All exchange traded funds are tied, by the way, to one of the several different market indexes out there.

At any rate, exchange traded funds tend to restrict membership in the fund to what it refers to as authorized participants which, in this case, means those really big investors that can afford to buy and sell large blocks of assets. There is a way, however, for a small investor -- who in many cases may have starting capital of only $5000 -- to get in by using an ETF trading system.

Trading systems stand-in for institutional investors in that they are the representative face to the ETF and will be making portfolio movements or other trading activities on behalf of the traders who enter the ETF trading system and will be settling their trades at the end of the day. Exchange traded funds are traded on all stock exchanges on an intra-day basis, meaning their traded all day.

Those who feel they might want to give ETF trading a try should take the time to identify a good-quality ETF trading system (a number of them exist on the Internet) and then go over everything that it is offering very carefully. Potential users should look at how easy it is to manipulate and should also plan on providing starting capital of up to $5000, on average.

Once you've found a likely trading system candidate, looked to see the kind of trading strategies the ETF system utilizes. Most of the time, these systems allow only one single type of strategy to be used. Commonly, many such systems tend to recommend trend following, which is exactly what it implies; you'll be tracking trends in the markets and then making trades based on those trends.

As in any other market -- whether broad or just a sector or some other sort of investment area -- you'll be looking to pick out certain movements and then trading based on those movements. You may be buying a stock at a low price and then selling it a few minutes later when the price rises, which is a common strategy. You'll be trying to make money based on many small margin movements, basically.

A good ETF trading system -- which is one that has definable and easy to follow rules and is simple to use with just the right amount of risk involved -- can really work wonders when it comes to engaging in trading activities which can be throughout the day or at the end of the day, all at once. Look carefully at each system and determine how easy it is to use before jumping in. - 23208

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