Re: ETF's . What are they?
many of the ultra's are funny money......
SSO 4 exp:
The investment seeks daily investment results, before fees and expenses, which correspond to twice the daily performance of the S&P 500 index. The fund normally invests 80% of assets in financial instruments with economic characteristics that should be twice the return of the index. It may employ leveraged investment techniques in seeking its investment objective. The fund is nondiversified.
derivative swaps that mimic 2X or 3X...blah blah blah
which leads into the counterparty risk reality of um all
this bbs spends hours hashing it over and over and over.... http://www.tickerforum.org/cgi-ticker/akcs-www
they are an interesting bunch to read..... has an obviously bearish tilt & really wtf do you do with all the tin foil after u eat it???...lol
curious where most of you absorb info from the net regarding stocks?
my daily reading links below
http://1link.in/mnure
Re: ETF's . What are they?
Re: ETF's . What are they?
So back to the subject of this thread, what is the difference between an ETF and ... say ... a mutual fund?
And how many rookie questions am I allowed per day? :embarrest:
Lady
Re: ETF's . What are they?
Some ETFs are jsut like index mutual funds but much more liquid and easy to trade. Non-index mutual funds are generally managed and this have fees associated with them.
Hear a better explanation in the videos of post #5 and #6 of this thread.
Re: ETF's . What are they?
So here's another rookie question. :embarrest:
Say you're going to be out of touch for a while. Away from a computer and the phone. Or you just need to step back and catch your breath for a day or two. Where do you park your trading account in those cases? Do you find a bond ETF that appears fairly stable? (Recognizing that you'll get basically zip for returns there, of course.) Or what?
Will you please take a moment to share your preferred methods with this fledgling investor?
And do I need to start a new thread entitled, "Dumb Rookie Questions"? :rolleyes:
Lady
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XL-entLady
So here's another rookie question. :embarrest:
Say you're going to be out of touch for a while. Away from a computer and the phone. Or you just need to step back and catch your breath for a day or two. Where do you park your trading account in those cases? Do you find a bond ETF that appears fairly stable? (Recognizing that you'll get basically zip for returns there, of course.) Or what?
Will you please take a moment to share your preferred methods with this fledgling investor?
And do I need to start a new thread entitled, "Dumb Rookie Questions"? :rolleyes:
Lady
So I am guessing from the lack of responses to my question that everyone rolled their eyes and thought to themselves that I should just stick everything in a money market fund? If I don't hear differently I will assume that is the safe haven of choice for everyone .... :)
Lady
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I missed this one Lady. I'd say cash / money market, in my case. Sorry for the delay.
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etftalk
I missed this one Lady. I'd say cash / money market, in my case. Sorry for the delay.
No worries! I probably wasn't as patient as I should have been, but that was because it was such a dumb question I felt silly asking it. :rolleyes:
I've stressed over my tiny (but growing :)) e-Trade account a lot more than I ever stressed over my mega-huge government IRA-type account. I think that is because I learned what to do with my govt account gradually over many years. And the lessons learned in 2002-3 were painful ones! :wacko: With my ETF account I just kind of jumped in with a thousand to learn how to swim.
But I'll keep asking the stupid questions because maybe others will be as green as I am and the answers might help them too. :bigsmile:
Thanks for all your help, Tom! And Teknobucks and Show-me and Bullitt and Spaf and ....
Lady
Re: ETF's . What are they?
may want to be in t bills....or gold...lol
think products are
columbia cash reserves at bac
fdlxx at fidelity
forgot the others...but u know govt backed blah blah
Re: ETF's . What are they?
Lady, it's a tough call. How confident are you in your position? I bought TNA at an average cost of 27 a few weeks ago and watched 'em take it down without stops, but there were days I didn't check it even once. Obviously I could have gotten in at a better price, but what can you do, I got emotional and thought I'd catch it before hitting the pivot price. I don't know, it's the big trends I'm looking for and it's been up since November so until that gets violated....
It all depends on whether you look at the short or long term I guess. Beware stop loss orders, they can cost you just as much as buy and hold. Since buy and hold is a tough sell these days, I can see the crooks promoting stop loss orders in the years ahead. Shoot, Scottrade is holding classes on stop orders at some of their branches!