All Entries in the "ETF" Category
Eight Lazy ETF Portfolios
Some investors believe in passive investment management and don’t have the time to actively (daily) manage their portfolios. I’m not a day trader by any means, but I do think you should re-evaluate your investment portfolio on a consistent basis, at the very minimum once per year. I look at my personal financial situation weekly, [...]
5 ETF charts for your viewing pleasure
This evening was quite busy, so I did not have a lot of time to conduct investment research related to today’s market action. Below you will find 5 ETF charts for your viewing pleasure. These are five of the most popular (in terms of volume) ETFs being traded. The charts look pretty similar to me [...]
Monday and SecondMarket
Happy Monday. The major U.S. market averages were lower today and the bearishness continues. Dow 10,066.57 -126.82 -1.24% Nasdaq 2,213.55 -15.49 -0.69% S&P 500 1,073.65 -14.04 -1.29% The S&P seems to be trading in the same range as Thursday and Friday of last week and many investors are looking for a trend reversal, but are [...]
200 day ma = broken
Wow, what a day in the markets. The S&P 500 was down 3.9% today, to 1071.59, closing below the 200 day moving average. This does not look very promising at all and the next item of contention is testing the previous 2010 lows from February at around the 1060′s in terms of closing price. Chart [...]
XLF, FAS and an Investment Club
U.S. stocks fell Wednesday as Germany’s move to ban some naked short-selling fueled a fresh wave of worry about financial regulation. Additionally, the mortgage crisis is dragging on the economic recovery as more homeowners fall behind on their payments. Stocks may be threatening to break down, however many people think that this may be a [...]
ETFs and Mutual Funds – what’s the difference?
Mutual Funds, in the simplest terms, are traditional actively managed funds of stocks usually. There are also funds that specialize in other things such as bonds, indexes, etc, but the average mutual fund is managed by a group of investment managers that choose a particular investment strategy (i.e. long term growth) and buy and sell [...]
COMING SOON!
Financial literacy is generally lacking in this great world of ours. The reason (usually) why individuals and corporations make poor financial decisions is due to lack of education related to personal finance. Sometimes these poor decisions are due to greed, but on the whole, I would say that the people on Main Street primarily make [...]
