Profitable ETF Trading Strategies - Monitoring Global Markets
By Ken Long
One of the phenomena of a truly global market is the interconnectedness of everything. A good example for situational trader is the recent episode of swine flu that has many people worrying about a worldwide pandemic.
Because of the concentration of confirmed cases in Mexico, the first place we could look to find a potential weakness at the open on Monday morning would be in the Mexican ETF, symbol: EWW. In fact what we saw was a gap down opening of eight percent, followed by weakness throughout the day to close down 9 1/2% for the session.
The next place that we can look is to expand our focus to the geographic region, by looking at the ETF for Latin America, symbol: ILF. As we might have suspected, Latin America was down much greater than the rest of the world also. So, we can see the connection between countries and regions very clearly here.
Mexico and Latin America are both members of what is considered to be emerging markets. This collection of countries is represented by the ETF symbol: EEM. This ETF was also down much more than the rest of the world today. What contributes to the potential weakness in emerging markets is perhaps the relatively less resourced national healthcare systems which may make emerging market countries more vulnerable to a flu epidemic than the mature first and second world countries.
Taken together, these ETF's show us how macro economic events in the news unfold across country and regional boundaries and can help us confirm the hypothesis of tradable ideas that appear every day in the news.
By developing trading scenario ideas, the short-term trader is able to assemble a bundle of ETF's that serve both as tradable vehicles and as research instruments. By having all of these on the trading screen it is possible to see the idea of the tradeunfold in real time right before your eyes. You can then select which of the targets is moving the most in your preferred direction and you can turn your research idea into a tradable vehicle.
By monitoring a standard set of international, regional, country and specialty ETF's, the short-term trader is able to monitor world events and take advantage of trends in the global market.
Ken Long, Chief of Research, Tortoise Capital Management
finance: http://www.tortoisecapital.com
essays: http://kansasreflections.wordpress.com
Independent research, combining technical analysis and behavioral psychology. 30 day free trial of reports and live trader chatroom. Training, education, mentoring and coaching for professional traders.
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How to Get Rid of Debt?
By Zoran Maksimovic
If you want to get rid of debts you should follow simple principles.
1. Track down your debts.
Create a debt book. Actually one sheet of paper will be enough. Write down for each debt, the name of your creditor, actual debt, interest rate and current date. You might add the amount of minimal monthly payment and payment due date. There will be about dozen of items. You might add costs of services that are necessary for you. For example, rent and car payments might be necessary for you, and they might not appear on the list (technically it is not a debt, you are just paying the services)
2. Prioritize your debts
There are several ways to prioritize your debts.
- pay the one with the biggest interest rate,
- pay the one you are afraid of (if you don't pay mortgage you might lose your home),
- pay the smallest debt (this way you will reduce the number of debts, and clean your mind)
3. Make a plan
The idea is to have no debts. In order to achieve this you should eliminate the first one. Using the list of debts, mark a debt you should eliminate first. You would probably like to eliminate your mortgage, but that is probably impossible, unless you have $200k on your bank account. Rule of thumb is to payout debt with the biggest interest rate.
So the plan is: "Pay minimal monthly payments for all debts, and pay as much as you can for the one that is marked as eliminate first." Your financial goal is to payout that debt as soon as possible. With that on your mind whenever you want to buy something ask your self should I buy this or should I save that money and pay the debt? You might choose to pay a certain amount each month until it is payed out.
4. Stick with the plan until the debt is payed off. When you do that choose one of the remaining debts.
I forgot to mention STOP ACQUIRING NEW DEBTS!
Zoran Maksimovic is an author focused on investing for beginners. To see more articles about fundamentals of investing visit his site Investing made easy.
By Ken Long
One of the phenomena of a truly global market is the interconnectedness of everything. A good example for situational trader is the recent episode of swine flu that has many people worrying about a worldwide pandemic.
Because of the concentration of confirmed cases in Mexico, the first place we could look to find a potential weakness at the open on Monday morning would be in the Mexican ETF, symbol: EWW. In fact what we saw was a gap down opening of eight percent, followed by weakness throughout the day to close down 9 1/2% for the session.
The next place that we can look is to expand our focus to the geographic region, by looking at the ETF for Latin America, symbol: ILF. As we might have suspected, Latin America was down much greater than the rest of the world also. So, we can see the connection between countries and regions very clearly here.
Mexico and Latin America are both members of what is considered to be emerging markets. This collection of countries is represented by the ETF symbol: EEM. This ETF was also down much more than the rest of the world today. What contributes to the potential weakness in emerging markets is perhaps the relatively less resourced national healthcare systems which may make emerging market countries more vulnerable to a flu epidemic than the mature first and second world countries.
Taken together, these ETF's show us how macro economic events in the news unfold across country and regional boundaries and can help us confirm the hypothesis of tradable ideas that appear every day in the news.
By developing trading scenario ideas, the short-term trader is able to assemble a bundle of ETF's that serve both as tradable vehicles and as research instruments. By having all of these on the trading screen it is possible to see the idea of the tradeunfold in real time right before your eyes. You can then select which of the targets is moving the most in your preferred direction and you can turn your research idea into a tradable vehicle.
By monitoring a standard set of international, regional, country and specialty ETF's, the short-term trader is able to monitor world events and take advantage of trends in the global market.
Ken Long, Chief of Research, Tortoise Capital Management
finance: http://www.tortoisecapital.com
essays: http://kansasreflections.wordpress.com
Independent research, combining technical analysis and behavioral psychology. 30 day free trial of reports and live trader chatroom. Training, education, mentoring and coaching for professional traders.
===============================================
How to Get Rid of Debt?
By Zoran Maksimovic
If you want to get rid of debts you should follow simple principles.
1. Track down your debts.
Create a debt book. Actually one sheet of paper will be enough. Write down for each debt, the name of your creditor, actual debt, interest rate and current date. You might add the amount of minimal monthly payment and payment due date. There will be about dozen of items. You might add costs of services that are necessary for you. For example, rent and car payments might be necessary for you, and they might not appear on the list (technically it is not a debt, you are just paying the services)
2. Prioritize your debts
There are several ways to prioritize your debts.
- pay the one with the biggest interest rate,
- pay the one you are afraid of (if you don't pay mortgage you might lose your home),
- pay the smallest debt (this way you will reduce the number of debts, and clean your mind)
3. Make a plan
The idea is to have no debts. In order to achieve this you should eliminate the first one. Using the list of debts, mark a debt you should eliminate first. You would probably like to eliminate your mortgage, but that is probably impossible, unless you have $200k on your bank account. Rule of thumb is to payout debt with the biggest interest rate.
So the plan is: "Pay minimal monthly payments for all debts, and pay as much as you can for the one that is marked as eliminate first." Your financial goal is to payout that debt as soon as possible. With that on your mind whenever you want to buy something ask your self should I buy this or should I save that money and pay the debt? You might choose to pay a certain amount each month until it is payed out.
4. Stick with the plan until the debt is payed off. When you do that choose one of the remaining debts.
I forgot to mention STOP ACQUIRING NEW DEBTS!
Zoran Maksimovic is an author focused on investing for beginners. To see more articles about fundamentals of investing visit his site Investing made easy.
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