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Friday, December 4, 2009

Knowing What Makes Up Good 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.

These particular funds resemble mutual funds in some ways, especially in how they are set up. Additionally, ETFs usually restrict membership -- if you want to call it that -- to what ETFs refer to as "authorized participants." This usually means institutional investors who have the ability to buy and sell huge blocks of assets. Small investors can participate through ETF trading systems, though.

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.

Once the moving average line can be established, traders then take that line and lay it over the analysis of the short-term movements in order to pick out the actual movement in the price of a stock or asset such as held in an ETF will result in after the stock crosses over the moving average line. The second part involves long-term trends, which use a 50 day moving average in order to smooth out the short-term trend.

Employing this strategy, traders can look at trends in the long-term and develop the moving support line. Those who are skilled at this strategy can pick out the right time to buy a stock at the bottom of its upward climb or at the point when the stock has touched or lightly penetrated the 50 day average. One can also use it to sell the stock short in an effective manner. Money is usually made on the margins. - 23218

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