Articles, tagged with "exchange traded fund", page 4
29th September 2009
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 ...
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Author:
Tom Leroy
17th August 2009
Gold has climbed recently trading as equity gains and an improving economic outlook boosted demand for the metal as a hedge against accelerating prices. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index of equities gained for a sixth day after an index of leading economic indi...
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Author:
Neil Dennis
13th August 2009
If you're looking for flexible investment autos that you manipulate in your portfolio like stocks, bonds, futures you need to pay close attention to ETF's. By definition ETF stands for exchange traded fund, an ETF holds assets such as bonds and stocks an...
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Author:
Jasper Fowler
10th August 2009
While I am writing this article, the exchange traded fund (ETF) for the S&P 500 index, is dealing at around $85.95 and the near money call option (with strike 86 and leaving only eight days before expiration) is dealing at $3.45! Call option means buying ...
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Author:
Ryan Mac
03rd August 2009
For some individuals, the self-directed pension is a better alternative to ordinary fund managed pension packages available. The types of individuals most likely to gain from self directed pensions are those who are wishing to manage their pension portfol...
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Author:
Rochelle
28th July 2009
In a slumping economy, it can be not easy to know precisely how to invest your wealth. With market indexes going down from corner to corner the panel, there are still a few things to do to assist out your investments.
Chris McClelland, founder and chie...
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Author:
Robert Bell
24th July 2009
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 mo...
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Author:
TedBrumby
19th May 2009
ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) have been launched in 1993 with introduction of SPDRs that tracks the S&P 500 index. SPDRs remains by now as one of the most traded stock on the stock market. ETFs should be considered as funds that could be traded as stocks a...
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Author:
Viktor Ka
19th May 2009
An ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) is an investment vehicle designed to have characteristics of the mutual funds and flexibility of trading as stocks. ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) are traded on stock exchanges in the same way the stocks are traded. They could ...
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Author:
Viktor Ka
25th March 2009
Types of Vertical Spreads
A spread by definition, is when you sell one option and you buy another option that is correlated to the one you sold. This way if one loses value, then the other gains value and vice versa. This reduces the volatility and is ...
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OptionSpreadTrades.com
17th March 2009
Diversification is a widely accepted investment principle. It merely means investing in a large number of stocks or bonds. This decreases the risk to your portfolio if one particular stock or bond should decrease in value. There are many methods of achiev...
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Author:
Robert Palmer
20th February 2009
Using seasonal patterns to make money in the forex markets can be quite simple. Although not 100% accurate seasonal patterns can give one a roadmap to which trades to look for from month to month and year to year.
For example since 1999 when the Euro b...
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OptionSpreadTrades.com
07th February 2009
Using credit spreads is a good way to make a consistent income using options without taking too much risk. However very few non-professional investors know how to use it and believe it to be too complicated. This article shows you how to write credit spre...
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OptionSpreadTrades.com
03rd November 2008
In today's depressive stock market it is hard to find a silver lining. Green investing is a way to feel good about your stocks and mutual funds while having the potential to make a healthy return on investment. Socially responsible investing makes sense...
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Author:
Larryburke
06th October 2008
How quickly time does fly. It is almost a year since the stock market posted a significant long-term High. It was marked by a bearish Candlestick pattern, and has been followed all the way down by a series of similar bearish formations. The events ...
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Author:
candleman