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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 an ETF, also, as a corporate stock in how it is sold or traded and bought. This will give you a good idea of how ETFs can be tracked in a market. Additionally, it is even easier to do so because all ETFs track one of the major market indexes. For purposes of discussion, assume that a particular ETF will track the Standard & Poor's 500. This makes it very easy to follow trends.

There are more strategies out there that can probably be counted, though they usually fall into a couple of major categories; fundamental and technical. For those with the savvy, or patience, to sit down and learn technical strategies, the rewards can be quite lucrative. Most traders using technical indices believe they can discern patterns or shapes in a stock chart, basically.

Those traitors who are good at picking out patterns and shapes in the movement of markets use stock charts to do so. Income earned can be very lucrative if done correctly. Those movements upwards or downwards can, basically, be timed through analysis and then markets can be exploited by those movements through trading of stocks at the right time.

One of the most common technical trading strategies used by many traders is what is called a "moving average cross." Moving average crosses try to match up a short-term evolution in the price of the stock and superimpose that over a long-term trend in that same stock or market. By tracking a short-term up-and-down movement over-- to 25 days, it may be possible to establish a 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. - 23196

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