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  • What Is Etf Trend Trading?
    By: Mark Thomas Walters | - Below you will find a short overview on ETF (Exchange Traded Funds) trend trading, which will allow you to make a more informed decision about whether it is the right type of investment for you.

    ETFs were first introduced to the world during the 1990's. Today, they are used as an investment vehicle, traded comparable stocks or shares on the stock exchanges. They are seen as an attractive option to investors because they are low cost and tax efficient. Many are also drawn to them b ...
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  • These Best In Breed Etfs Hold Amazing Profit Potential
    By: panny1 | - Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) have taken hold as one of the most popular investments on the market today. Now, with global assets in ETFs estimated to hit $1 trillion by 2010, a new class of actively managed ETFs is poised to become the next big thing for your portfolio.
    Heres a look at how these exciting new investments are gaining ground and how you can get a piece of the action with an ignored small-cap fund
    ETFs baskets of securities that trade on major exchanges ...
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  • Understanding The Forex Market
    By: AHmad Hassam | - Right now forex trading is being promoted as the Recession Proof Business of the 21st Century. Many investors got their fingers burnt in the recent stock market crash. They are looking for new opportunities to rebuild their retirement savings. Is forex trading the solution? Forex trading has got some benefits. You can trade forex from anywhere in the world. You only need a computer, an internet connection and a few hundred dollars to begin trading. But before you trade forex understand the forex ...
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  • Comparing Equity Index Annuities To Etfs
    By: Steven Hart | - Equity index annuities (EIA) earn interest based on the performance of another financial instrument. Usually this is a stock or an equity index. The most commonly used index for an EIA is the S&P 500.

    An alternative to investing in an equity index annuity is an exchange-traded fund (ETF). ETFs, like EIAs, are securities that track indexes. Or, at least most ETFs are. They can also be set up to track commodities and sectors. ETFs offer the same diversification benefits of equit ...
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  • Etf Trading For A Living - What To Know About Etfs
    By: Tom Leroy | - Much similar to stocks, an exchange-traded fund (or ETF) is an investment medium traded on stock exchanges.

    Most ETFs in the United States are structured as open-end management investment companies. However a few ETFs are structured as unit investment trusts and include some of the major ones.

    ETFs are a fast growing class of assets. By improving your ETF trading with quantified strategies, High Probability ETF Trading will give you the edge in certain quantified strat ...
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  • Mutual Funds Trading Vs Exchange Traded Funds Trading
    By: Tom Leroy | - Taking it individually ETFs and Mutual Funds have their advantages, with each having their disadvantages as well. Exchange-Traded Fund or ETF for short is an umbrella of stocks or bonds that trade on the stock market at a set price, just like any common stock. Since 1993, ETFs have been traded in the US and since 1999 in Europe. They have grown considerably from the recorded 32 in the US Markets in 1999. There are now about a 1000 available to date. They are traditionally index funds and in 200 ...
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  • What Are Your Etf Trading Strategies ?
    By: Tom Leroy | - ETF Trading , just like any other form of trading requires few skills and knowledge. But your trading experience can also be improved with a good strategy. Here are few ETF strategies you may or not know about.

    An Exchange-traded Fund (ETF) is a form of investment portfolio made up of many investments that characteristically trade like stocks. The American stock exchange is where ETFs are mainly found to be traded on.

    It holds an assortment of securities that are intend ...
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  • Etf Trend Trading - Set Up In 5 Minutes ?
    By: Tom Leroy | - An exchange-traded fund also known as ETF is nothing but an investment fund, to a large extent like stocks, and are traded on the worlds stock exchanges. They can be bought and sold right through the day, similar to stocks, on a securities exchange via a financial advisor, mutual fund manager or broker. To augment your stock market returns spectacularly there are numerous diverse types of trading systems available at your fingertips.

    One significant thing to keep in mind abo ...
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  • Have You Considered Etf Trading ?
    By: Tom Leroy | - An ETF or Exchange-traded Fund is another form of an investment portfolio made up of many investments that trade like stocks. It holds an assortment of securities that are intended to track the performance of an index and unlike many mutual funds; it can be bought and sold rapidly working in response to market movements similar to stocks or bonds that are traded throughout the day, mainly on major stock market exchanges. The American stock exchange is where ETFs are mainly found to be traded on. ...
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  • How To Invest With A Internet Stock Broker
    By: Ayna Miah | - A stock broker has the privilege for a lifetime to invest your money in the best possible manner. In the fast moving world, you need a stock broker that can take care of your business on a phone call or via email. This has led to emergence of internet stock brokers.

    Internet stock brokers take orders online and buy or sell stock on your behalf. They offer all the services of an ordinary stock broker but do not offer any personalized services like personal advice about handling yo ...
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  • The Importance Of Investment Portfolio Diversification
    By: Ted Brumby | - Part of the importance of investing is maintaining your purchasing power. With "safe" funds, you rarely earn an interest rate as high as the inflation rate, which means you're losing purchasing power over time, even though you aren't likely to lose the money you have.

    For your investment portfolio, you should also internalise the importance of diversification. There are very few, if any, stocks or funds that are guaranteed to be 100% safe, so putting all of your money into one inves ...
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  • The Benefits Of Exchange Traded Funds (etfs)
    By: Ted Brumby | - Exchange Traded Funds are designed to hold assets such as stocks or bonds, and generally trade at the net asset value of their underlying assets. Like index tracking pooled funds, Exchange Traded Funds are designed to track a chosen market index. However, ETFs tend to have a lower expense ratio than index funds. The easiest way to think of ETFs is that they are akin to mutual funds that trade like stocks.

    There are a number of benefits to investing in Exchange Traded Funds. ETFs a ...
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  • Introduction To Exchange Traded Funds (etfs)
    By: Ranju Kumar | - An Exchange Traded Fund (or ETF for short) trades on stock exchanges just the like any other stock. ETFs are usually linked to a stock, bond or commodity index. The underlying basis for an ETF is that it is backed by assets in the same proportion as the index to which it is linked. This process is known as replicating the index.

    Some stock-index ETFs undertake "representative sampling", in which case the ETF comprises of the key stocks which represent the index. The ETF price ther ...
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  • Short Selling In A Nutshell
    By: Ranju Kumar | - Most investors think that when the stock market is going down, you cannot make any profits. Well, they are wrong because there are traders out there who are able to easily earn profits when stocks are tanking. You can also do this by using a technique called short selling (or shorting).

    Short selling is not really complicated. However, many people have trouble grasping this concept. Generally, people invest by purchasing an asset with the expectation that it will appreciate in pri ...
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  • Make Money Day Trading - 6 Day Trading Tips How To Make Money
    By: Peter Skotnicky | - Day trading is hard and intimidating but with these quick tips you can make money day trading and have successful side income that makes you money. In day trading you need to constantly be watching the markets picking stocks and following market trends. Here are a few tips to help you.

    1. Do your homework

    Part of trading is getting in tips and information and keeping up on the markets. Yahoo Financial, The Journal, and other places to find your information and then ...
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  • Trading On The New York Stock Exchange
    By: Caterina Christakos | - This is one of the leading markets on which to trade in the United States. For starters, the Dow is composed of only 30 large cap stocks. The New York Stock Exchange, sometimes called "The Big Board", on the other hand, consists of roughly 3,000 companies at a value of around $17 trillion and is one of the largest markets in the world in stocks and bonds trading.

    With the current economic downturn, however, the daily reports from the New York Stock Exchange are not glowing. Ther ...
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  • What Does "timing The Market" Or "market Timing" Really Mean?
    By: Dr. Winton M. Felt | - "Timing the market" is considered by many to be a foolish exercise. Timing the market is indeed foolish if it is done the way many seem to think it is done. However, it is really a matter of having a good sell strategy or stop loss system coupled with a good buy strategy. Expert timers do not buy because they feel a stock is a "good" one to own, or sell because they feel it is "high." They buy because there has been a buy signal, and they sell because there has been a sell signal.
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  • Investing Tips, Swing Trading, Investing Journal
    By: brucejack | - swing trading- a swing trader looks for short-term opportunities in the market to go long at a relative low, or get short at a relative high, with the expectation of closing their position in one to several days. Swing trading involves a longer time horizon than day trading, but avoid holding an open position beyond a week or two.
    Swing trading can be effectively utilized on a part-time basis, allowing a trader to also have a day job. With the sophisticated conditional orders available t ...
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  • Swing-trading, Investing-tips, Investing-journal
    By: brucejack | - swing trading- a swing trader looks for short-term opportunities in the market to go long at a relative low, or get short at a relative high, with the expectation of closing their position in one to several days. Swing trading involves a longer time horizon than day trading, but avoid holding an open position beyond a week or two.
    Swing trading can be effectively utilized on a part-time basis, allowing a trader to also have a day job. With the sophisticated conditional orders available t ...
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  • Make Money With Swing Trading, Investing Tips And Investing Journal
    By: Mark Waugh | - Swing trading systems capitalize on the oscillations experienced in the stock prices. In this style of trading, the returns on a stock can be gained in few days. Traders employing this style can leverage on the short term stock movements without fearing any stiff competition from the big players in the market. Swing trading systems are best suited for the at-home investors who can afford to watch over the market progress once in a day or week.
    Investing tips - the stock market should pre ...
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  • Hedge Funds: An Under The Radar Crisis
    By: Steve Selengut | - The other day, with the market giving up about a third of its March gain in DJIA points, I went looking through my favorite market stats to see if any remaining profits could be pounced upon. Typically, profit possibilities can be identified quickly on NYSE lists of the largest dollar and percent gainers.

    Alarmingly, 75% of the largest percent gainers were ETFs, and many of those operate using the same strategies as classic hedge funds--- most owned no common stock at all! At the ...
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  • Swing Trading, Investing Tips, Investing Journal
    By: Mark Waugh | - Swing trading is a popular method of capitalizing on the short-term price variations of the stock market. It has earned a reputation of being a powerful method of maximizing profits at lower risks. The best swing trading strategy involves choosing the right stock and the right market. Swing traders usually choose the stocks that fluctuate at extreme ends. Swing trading strategy is employed in a stable market, because here the prices tend to have minor variations on which the swing trader can cap ...
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  • What Are Etfs -- Exchange-traded Funds
    By: MACarticles | - You may have heard of ETFs. What exactly are they?

    Introduction
    Exchange-Traded Funds, or ETFs, are just like mutual funds but that trade on stock exchanges, with a few differences. This gives them many of the advantages of stocks while avoiding some of the downsides that mutual funds have.

    Why Use ETFs
    Have you ever wanted to trade shares of an index like the Dow Jones Industrial Average or the S&P 500? You can't trade that directly but you can do it ...
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  • What Are Etfs (exchange-traded Funds)?
    By: Nicholas Swezey | - Exchange-Traded Funds, or ETFs, are basically like mutual funds that trade on stock exchanges, with a few important differences. This gives them many of the benefits of stocks while removing some of the disadvantages that mutual funds have.

    Purpose of Them
    Have you ever wanted to trade shares of an index like the Dow Jones Industrial Average or the S&P 500? Well, you can't do that directly but you can do it indirectly through ETFs. The managers who run them usually inves ...
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  • The Market Is Rising But Stocks Keep Breaking Down
    By: Dr. Winton M. Felt | - The market appears to have changed from being a declining market to being a rising market. Day after day, reporters announce that there has been another market advance. Yet, it may seem that every time you invest in a stock it breaks down and your stop loss is triggered. It is not always easy to participate in a new uptrend. During the transition from a bear market to a bull market, is parking your assets in a money-market fund really your best option? Here are some alternatives.
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  • Swing Trading, Investing Tips, And Investing Journal
    By: Bruce Jack | - Swing trading is a popular method of capitalizing on the short-term price variations of the stock market. It has earned a reputation of being a powerful method of maximizing profits at lower risks. The best swing trading strategy involves choosing the right stock and the right market. Swing traders usually choose the stocks that fluctuate at extreme ends. Swing trading strategy is employed in a stable market, because here the prices tend to have minor variations on which the swing trader can cap ...
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  • Advantages Of Etf Trading System
    By: Danny Braks | - The biggest advantage of using the ETF trading system in general is it provides you with diversification. The funds are containers or baskets. This is different to the stock of a single company. There are many opportunities to increase your funds using the ETF trading system but its important you use a reputable system to track ETFs. If you have no knowledge of this kind of trading then it would be to your advantage to use a suitable software package. T ...
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  • Basics Of Etf Trading
    By: Danny Braks | - ETFs, or exchange-traded funds, were first introduced to the market in the early 1990s and are used as an investment vehicle, traded similar to stocks or shares on stock exchanges. These funds are often attractive to investors because of their tax efficiency, low costs and similarity to stocks. ETFs have been called the most innovative investment medium of the last twenty years by 67% of investment professionals in March 2008. Of these professionals, 60% reported that ETFs have significa ...
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  • Brief Review On Types Of Mutual Funds
    By: Tarun Jaswani | - A mutual fund is a professionally managed type of collective investment scheme that pools money from many investors and invests it in stocks, bonds, short-term money market instruments, and/or other securities. The mutual fund will have a fund manager that trades the pooled money on a regular basis. Currently, the worldwide value of all mutual funds totals more than dollar 26 trillion.

    A Trading Fund is a UK government department, or an executive agency or part of the department, ...
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  • Constructing A Diversified Portfolio Of Socially Responsible Investments
    By: sristocks | - The Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) emphasizes that diversification is critical for minimizing your risk exposure. Diversification is a core value in successfully investing and it is no different for socially responsible investments (SRI).

    The value of diversified asset allocation
    The importance of diversifying your asset allocation is absolutely critical in effectively managing your portfolio's risk. The types of assets you include in your portfolio, such as stocks, options ...
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  • How To Invest And Make Good Money Off Rising Oil Prices
    By: Christopher Carter | - The price of oil continues to soar as the demand is obviously way more than the supply. Developing countries like China and India have increased their demand for oil supply to support their massive growth rate. Developed countries like the United States and Japan also increase their demand for oil supply to maintain day to day operating needs. The overall growth in population also have led to the rising need for oil supply.

    For investors, the rise of oil prices signifies a golden ...
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  • Options Trading Quotes - Option Trading Tools - Option Quotes 619
    By: optionstradingdomain | - On the contrary, if the underlying stock associated with an option were susceptible to violent price fluctuations, also called beta, it is said to be of high volatility, and rewarded with a higher premium. The Bear Call Spread is implemented by buying a put option while simultaneously writing a put option with a lower strike price. There are certain stock investment options which deliver assured and consistent high returns over the long term and allow you to sleep peacefully too. One benefit of ...
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  • Trading Forex- Why Trade Currencies? (part 1 Of 2.)
    By: Mike P. Kulej | - When a person wants to enter trading arena, one of the most important questions is What should I trade?. There is an overwhelming choice of financial instruments available for trading; stocks, bonds, futures, commodities, options, mutual funds, ETF's, all kinds of derivatives like swaps and forwards and , of course, currencies or spot Forex.

    Perhaps it's not a surprise, that majority of people start their trading adventure in stocks. These financial vehicles are relative ...
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  • Series 7 License - Professional Guarantee
    By: Lara Newcomb | - While there are many professionals who provide investment advice in one form or another, there are certain credentials and licenses financial professionals should possess before you entrust them with your savings.

    Financial Advisor, Financial Consultant, Investment Advisor, Financial Planner, Registered Representative, Stock Broker, Variable Products Agent or Insurance Agent are many of the terms used in the financial services industry to describe the professional duties performed ...
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  • Stock Options - The Greatest Wealth Building Tool Ever Invented
    By: Danny Swad | - It is a well known fact that serious investors seeking long term growth of capital have as their main objectives the two most basic goals in investing:

    to find an investment vehicle that would effectively preserve capital and minimize risk in the face of a fluctuating and constantly flexing economy
    the investment vehicle must provide better than decent yields in all economic conditions to promote constant growth of capital value.

    With the stock market ...
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  • Etf Profit Driver Review
    By: TheOptionClub.com | - ETF Profit Driver takes investing in exchange traded funds to a new level, adding one more reason to abandon your old mutual funds in favor of ETF products. Bill Poulos has assembled a comprehensive method of managing a portfolio of ETF's in a manner that drastically reduces risks associated with market downturns, while dramatically increasing potential for sustained capital appreciation.

    Based on a study conducted a few years back, about 10% of all long-term mutual-fund assets we ...
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  • Etf Profit Driver - Another Reason To Favor Exchange Traded Funds
    By: TheOptionClub.com | - Holding equity positions during a sustained market downturn can decimate a portfolio. An alternative is to adopt a trading methodology that inserts capital into the market at safe entry points as a favorable trend emerges, then removes capital as the trend breakdown. Bill Poulos has compiled such a method in his ETF Profit Driver course.

    Based on a study conducted a few years back, about 10% of all long-term mutual-fund assets were held in index funds. Those funds offer comparati ...
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  • Understanding Online Brokerage System
    By: LesleyLyon | - Many industries have profited from data exchange over the Internet but they face several impediments when it comes to the actual transfer of physical products. Only with online brokerage industry, transactions occur where "information is sold as a commodity without the transfer of physical goods. The Internet is accurately the means, which transforms the dynamics of brokerage industry. Within the financial services, Internet trading is the first industry to maximize the Internet's potential a ...
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  • Stock Market Investing Basics For Beginners
    By: Gerry Wollert | - There are several important things you should consider before you begin investing in the stock market:

    First off, pay off any credit card balances and other short term loans before even considering an investment in the stock market. Also, get in the habit of paying off your entire credit card balances every month. Paying credit card companies large interest on your balances is a sure way to prevent you from building long term wealth.

    Second, maximize your contribu ...
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  • Investment Strategy - Why Exchange Traded Funds Are Hot
    By: Joel Teo | - You know something is hot when the Wall Street Journal stands up and pays attention. In fact they full page ads for ETFs. So are you wondering why exchange traded funds are hot and what role they can play in your investment strategy?

    Although Exchange Traded Funds or ETF's are not technically mutual funds they do offer some of the same types of advantages but they trade like stocks. They certainly should be part of your investment strategy because they are the best investment vehi ...
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  • Investing Advice: 5 Benefits Of Etfs
    By: Pat Regan | - When people ask for investing advice, ETFs usually come up pretty quickly, because they are so heavily marketed and trumped by the industry. Exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, are an easy way to diversify a small investment, but to get the most out of your investment, it is important to understand how they operate.

    ETFs are like mutual funds, in that they are a collection of investments, but they are traded on an exchange, such as the NYSE, instead of purchased directly from the issu ...
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  • Exchange Traded Funds How Dollar Cost Averaging Can Make You Money In The Long Term
    By: Joel Teo | - Exchange-traded can be seen as a mutual fund that trades like a stock. It represents a pool of stocks reflecting an index. The ETFs try to imitate the return on indexes but there is no assurance that they will do so precisely. However, an ETF is not a mutual fund and it trades like any other company on a stock exchange. The price of an ETF can change all through the day, wavering with the supply and demand whereas the mutual funds are traded once during the day. Mutual funds also require NAV to ...
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  • Investing: Level-headed Or Lazy?
    By: Robert Valentine | - Passive investment management may be the Rodney Dangerfield of financial strategies--it gets no respect. Active investment strategies have had the spotlight so long, some investors may be surprised to find there is an alternative to stock picking, market timing and other faster-paced, more glamorous methods.

    Active investment management uses research, investigation and analysis to select investments that the selector believes will outperform the general market indexes. Passive inv ...
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  • An Exciting Bond?
    By: Robert Valentine | - Since 1993, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have provided another investment tool for Americans. ETFs may offer easy trading options and their convenience, along with their added bonus: diversification.

    In fact, according to the Investment Company Institute, since their inception, money invested in ETFs has grown to over $250 billion dollars.

    ETFs mirror an index or focus on a specific industry or country. What sets them apart from mutual funds is that ETFs are traded ...
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  • Commodity Investing For Your Portfolio
    By: Randy Zakowski | - Even though throughout the last thirty or so years, the Commodity Research Bureau (CRB) has been in a downtrend and the S&P 500 as been in an uptrend many people continue to invest in commodities. Before we look at why and how they are becoming successful investors, let us look at what the CRB is. The Commodity Research Bureau is something similar to the Dow Jones. It mathematically combines the prices of commodities to determine just how the commodities are moving. The equation is performed by ...
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  • Etf - An Attractive Alternative?
    By: Robert Valentine | - Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), have quickly become one of the most popular ways for Americans to reach their financial goals. While they've existed in some form or another since 1993, lately ETFs have been given a great deal of attention from both Wall Street and Main Street.

    So what do ETFs offer that other investment vehicles don't?

    ETFs are unique in many ways and present a variety of benefits compared to other traditional investment vehicles. With that innovatio ...
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  • Exchange Traded Funds: Why You Should Never Buy A Mutual Fund Again
    By: John M. McClure | - Copyright 2006 Equitrend, Inc.

    Many investors still don't know about Exchange Traded Funds (or ETFs) and their advantages over traditional mutual funds. In this article, we'll examine Exchange Traded Funds, their history, performance and advantages and why you should never buy a mutual fund again.

    ETF 101

    Exchange Traded Funds can most accurately be described as the happy marriage of a stock with a mutual fund.

    Like mutual funds, when ...
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