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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Tips For Beginners: Effective ETF Trading System

By Patrick Deaton

Your personal style, goals, and skills are going to help you to find the ETF trading system that will be best for you. The system that works for one person will not work for everyone. That is why you will find hundreds of strategies, methods, and systems on the Internet. During the learning curve you will have the opportunity to try on different strategies and systems and find the one that is most effective for you and fits you best. That will be the most effective ETF trading system.

The challenge of finding the best trading system is in researching and learning how to identify systems that are worth trying. There are many websites that offer training and books about an effective system that will work. However, in reality the best websites will offer training, books, information, forums, and chat groups on all the strategies, methods, and systems. You will be able to learn from successful traders who have already tried various systems and can tell you why they were not effective.

When a person is just starting to participate in ETF trading they will be starting out slow. The first couple of years spent in ETF training are the learning curve that most successful traders say is average. This will be an opportunity to make a plan on how to try on different strategies and systems without committing a major amount of resources to any particular one.

The safety net will help you to stay afloat in a very fast moving trading medium. The ETF is moving at 15 second intervals. If a person has committed to the wrong system, in the wrong sector, they can lose gains before they have finished their first cup of coffee. So, setting a stop-loss will help you to avoid those kinds of losses.

Setting buy and sell points and/or "take profit" prices is also a great part of a good safety net. If a person has not quite gotten the knack for spotting trends and knowing when things are getting ready to tank down yet. Having buy and sell points can get you out of trouble before you get into it. Once you feel confident with technical and historical analysis of your sectors you may want to relax the strategies that you employ for safety. But many traders use the setting buy and sell points strategy very successfully throughout their trading.

Starting to trade in sectors that have clear trends and trend lines to track will be easier than the more complex sectors. Trading in at least two separate sectors is also a good idea. Somewhere in your research of ETF trading systems you will find the actual formula for the system. This formula will show how the system is set up, how it works, and it's risk. There may be some systems that have a low risk, but I haven't seen any, so try to stick with systems that have a medium low to medium risk.

When looking at systems, any system that involves following trends is a system worth looking at. Learning to follow and spot trends, patterns, and variables is a great way to gain confidence in ETF trading. A system like the ETFA is one good way to start. The Exponential Moving Average System is a medium low to medium risk system that involves following trends. It is used primarily with TLT, XLE, RTH, XLF, and SPY (long term). Most people run the system on a fifteen day cycle. When the fast EMA and slow EMA cross, you move.

Tracking a system before using it to trade is a good way to find out how consistent and effective it is. A good rule of thumb to keep in mind is that if a system is great and effective, it can be tracked and followed. There is no way for a trader to keep a system a secret in ETF trading. Look for key clues in advertising. When an individual is "selling" a can't fail system, every trader knows that there is no "can't fail" system. If there were ETF trading would not be the fun that it is, and successful trades would not be as exhilarating as they are. - 23196

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