ETF Basics: A Conversation with Lisa Dallmer of NYSE Euronext

Click here to read our Big Saturday Interview with Lisa Dallmer of NYSE Euronext

There is no market like the market for exchange-traded funds (ETFs) right now. More and more long term investors and short term traders are learning about the many advantages that exchange-traded funds can provide. These advantages include lower costs, tax efficiency and much greater transparency compared to mutual funds. ETFs also have the buying and selling flexibility of stocks, but with the ability to have broad and diversified exposure to an ever-widening variety of markets.

TradingMarkets will be publishing a wealth of material designed to help short term traders add exchange-traded funds to their trading strategies. Over the next several days, weeks and months, you will not only understand what ETFs are, how they are structured and how they are built, but also you will learn how to trade exchange-traded funds using high probability, mean reversion strategies that have been backtested for more than a decade in many instances.

We will also be talking with the men and women who play important roles in the ETF industry – from exchange professionals involved in helping make ETF products available to the trading public to independent traders who have made ETF trading a major part of their trading strategies every day.

This weekend, our Big Saturday Interview features Lisa Dallmer, Senior Vice President of ETF and Index Services at NYSE Euronext. Having been involved with exchange-traded funds since the early part of the decade, Lisa Dallmer’s current responsibilities include helping educate ETF traders and issuers on the innovation and market structure provided investors by way of NYSE Arca. Her background includes a position as Vice President with Blackbird Holdings, an over-the-counter derivative trading technology firm.

In this conversation with Lisa Dallmer, we learn how her background in derivatives helped provide insights into the way that ETFs work, and she answers some common questions about the relationship between stocks, mutual funds and ETFs, what long term investors need to know about leveraged ETFs, and how the average trader or investor can learn how to find the ETFs that will help them meet their short and long term goals.

To read our Big Saturday Interview with Lisa Dallmer, click here.