Introducing the TradingMarkets Everything You Need to Know About Trading ETFs Series
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have exploded in popularity over the past few years. From investors looking to save money and get better transparency compared to mutual fund investing to professionals looking to make leveraged bets on whole sectors or country stock markets, the growth in ETF trading shows no signs of slowing down.
Over the next several weeks, we’re going to show you all you need to know about ETF trading. We’ll show you what the major ETFs are, what stocks or indexes they track, and how to tell the difference between two ETFs that may sound same, but may have very different components and potentially very different results for investors or traders who buy them.
We’ll talk about the difference between regular and leveraged exchange-traded funds, and how short or inverse funds work. We’ll also introduce you to the major exchange-traded fund families: from iShares and SPDRS to ProShares and PowerShares and more.
Single-stock risk – the risk that one of the stocks you own will be the next Bear Stearns – has encouraged more and more professional money managers and retail investors and traders to move toward exchange-traded funds. And opportunities for short term trading in ETFs abound, from breakout trading styles to mean reversion swing trading using tools like our Short Term PowerRatings.
If a little knowledge is all that’s holding you back from participating in this growing market, then the TradingMarkets Everything You Need to Know About Trading ETFs Series is just what you need!
TradingMarkets Everything You Need to Know About ETFs Series Schedule:
Monday: December 1: Location, Location: Trading Real Estate ETFs
Thursday, December 4: Betting on Banks: Financial ETFs for Traders
Monday, December 8: Drill, Baby Drill: Trading Oil ETFs
Thursday, December 11: The Big Fish: Trading the S&P 500, Part 1
Monday: December 15: The Big Fish: Trading the S&P 500, Part 2
Thursday, December 18: Tech Time: Top Technology ETFs for Traders
Monday, December 22: Trading the Nasdaq ETFs
Friday, December 26: Trading the Russell 2000: IWM and RWM
Monday, December 29: Commodity ETFs
Friday, January 2: Trading Forex with ETFs
Monday, January 5: Trade Globally: Top International ETFs for Traders
Friday, January 9: Value, Growth and Style-Based ETF Trading
Monday, January 12: Triple Play: 3x Leveraged ETFs for Aggressive Traders
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David Penn is Editor in Chief at TradingMarkets.com.