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Friday, December 4, 2009

Getting A Handle On ETF Trading Strategies

By Patrick Deaton

Today, exchange traded funds or ETFs make for a great investment vehicle that hold out the possibility of a good income for those traitors willing to take the time to learn how to make exchange traded funds really work. Understanding good ETF trading strategies, though, is probably one of the first things to learn after gaining an understanding of the basics of what ETFs are.

Exchange traded funds have a lot of things going for them. Their costs are low and their tax efficiencies are very high. They are constituted somewhat like mutual funds in how they are operated by a fund manager. Normally, and ETF limits membership to authorized participants such as large institutional investors can buy large blocks of assets. Small investors usually use in ETF trading system.

Think of ETFs as similar to corporate stocks, also, because of the way they are bought or sold or traded and you'll be well on the way to understanding the general principles that underlie these funds. Just about every one of these funds also tracks one of the major market indexes such as the S&P 500, so following trends or tracking trends can be one good way to set up a trading strategy.

For a fact, there are endless trading strategies out there that can be used to track market movements and then timing buying and selling by those movements. Most, however, fall into two categories known as technical trading strategies and fundamental trading strategies. Technical strategists believe they can pick out shapes and patterns in market movements.

Being able to discern these patterns or shapes in a stock chart (basically up-and-down movements of the stock over a defined period of time) can give a signal of the possibility of profitable trading opportunities which might exist. Many traders claim that they can make consistent profits from trading using technical analysis in this manner.

Probably one of the most ubiquitous strategies when it comes to technical trading is to employ what traders call a moving average cross. These crosses attempt to line up the short-term movements in the price of a stock or a fund and then place that short-term movement over a long-term trendline in the market or the stock. Short-term movements over-- to 25 days can establish the moving average line.

After that moving average line has been created, most traders will superimpose that over an analysis of the short-term movements in an attempt to discern the actual movement the price of the stock or stock held in the ETF will take once it crosses the moving average line. Long-term trendline analysis, which is the second element, takes a 50 day moving average, which can damp the short-term trend.

In this way, ETF trading strategies involving the long-term trend can be used as what industry experts call a "moving support line." A typical strategy by most traders in this instance would be to purchase a stock or an asset in the ETF when it is in the beginning of an uptrend or if the stock price goes back up after it either touches or barely penetrates the 50-day moving average. One could short the stock also. - 23223

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