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Exchange Traded Fund (ETF)

HTMW Team — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 12:44:46 +0000

A stock like security that follows an index, a commodity or a basket of assets like an indexed mutual fund. Securities like ETFs trades like a stock. ETFs prices change throughout the day, like a stock, as they are bought and sold.

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ETFs showing signs of stress with high trading!

Kevin Smith — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 13:52:28 +0000

ETFs have been one of the most popular investment vehicles in the world over the last decade or so, with investors of all types attracted to the low fees, but diverse holdings, falling somewhere between mutual funds and stocks in terms of how easy they are to manage in a portfolio. However, one of the Read More...

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Leveraged ETFs

Kevin Smith — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 16:05:39 +0000

ETFs are collections of assets into bundles you can invest in all at once, the most popular ones follow indecies (such as SPY following the S&P 500), which is one way for an investor to build a diverse portfolio without holding dozens of individual positions. However, using financial derivatives and debt, there are also “Leveraged ETFs”, Read More...

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ETFs with Best Returns

HTMW Team — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 09:49:03 +0000

ETFs with best rate of return for one and three years

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Direxion Small Cap Bear 3X – Triple-Leveraged ETF (TZA)

HTMW Team — Tue, 07 May 2013 21:16:24 +0000

Direxion Small Cap Bear3X - Triple-Leveraged ETF is an index fund ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) designed to seek a daily result of 300% of the INVERSE of the performance of the Russell 2000 Small Cap Index.

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Hedging with ETFs

HTMW Team — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:41:29 +0000

With ETFs, you can scaled down the size of the transaction for small investors.

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Bull and Bear ETFs

HTMW Team — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:10:03 +0000

Bear ETFs short stocks to achieve their goals. Bear ETFs show gains when the underlying stocks loose value. Bull ETFs use long positions and show gains when the underlying stocks show gains.

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Diamond ETFs

HTMW Team — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:34:30 +0000

The DIA -DIAMONDS Trust, Series 1 ETF invest in a basket of Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks that will track the price and performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) Index.

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Most Active ETFs by Volume

HTMW Team — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 08:59:46 +0000

ETFs with the most trading volume and the most total assets.

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Screeners

HTMW Team — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 18:05:11 +0000

A tool that investors and traders can use to filter ETFs based on user-defined metrics. ETF screeners are offered on many websites and trading platforms, and they allow users to select trading instruments that fit a certain profile set of criteria.

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Spider ETF

HTMW Team — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 16:56:59 +0000

A Spider ETF is a summary of Standard & Poor's depositary receipt, an exchange-traded fund (ETF) administered by State Street Global Advisors.

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Most Popular ETFs

HTMW Team — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 11:53:02 +0000

Most Popular ETFs by Volume Symbol Name Avg Volume Total Assets SPY SPDR S&P 500 122,437,320 $120,699.8 M XLF Financial Select Sector SPDR 49,102,004 $8,232.3 M EEM MSCI Emerging Markets Index Fund 42,278,938 $37,379.9 M IWM Russell 2000 Index Fund 40,192,414 $17,667.3 M QQQ QQQ 34,720,602 $34,638.4 M VWO Emerging Markets ETF 19,842,342 $57,872.7 M Read More...

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Commodity ETF

HTMW Team — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 11:45:58 +0000

Exchange-traded funds that invest in physical commodities such as natural resources, agricultural goods as well as precious metals.

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Country ETFs

HTMW Team — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:57:13 +0000

A group of risks combined with investing in a foreign country.

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Indexed ETFs

HTMW Team — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:46:17 +0000

A type of mutual fund with a portfolio constructed to match or track the components of a market index, such as the Standard & Poor's 500 Index (S&P 500). An index mutual fund is said to provide broad market exposure, low operating expenses and low portfolio turnover.

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ETFs vs Stocks

HTMW Team — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:58:34 +0000

What are the differences between investing in Exchange Traded Funds verses stocks? This article will discuss the pros and cons …

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ETFs vs Mutual Funds

HTMW Team — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:08:22 +0000

Your goal should be to build and manage a diversified portfolio of stocks and bonds with the lowest possible fees and the greatest possible tax efficiency. ETFs offer seven advantages over index mutual funds: lower cost, greater tax efficiency, better tax management, easier asset allocation, easier portfolio rebalancing, no fraud and you can short ETFs.

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Learn To Trade ETFs

HTMW Team — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 05:02:43 +0000

ETFs are Exchange Traded Funds. They act like Mutual Funds but they can be traded intra day like a stock. Learn more.

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