How to Make Money Trading
Exchange Traded Funds (EFT)

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Exchange Traded Funds (EFT)
1.1 What is exchange traded funds?
1.2 Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) popularity
1.3 Why Exchange Traded Funds?
1.4 The advantages of ETFs:
1.4.1 Tax efficiency
1.4.2 Lower costs (ordinary brokerage commissions apply)
1.4.3 Transparency
1.4.4 Buying and selling flexibility
1.4.5 All day tracking and trading
1.4.6 Diversification
1.4.7 Dividend opportunities
1.4.8 Wide array of investment strategies
1.4.8.1 Core investment
1.4.8.2 Portfolio diversification
1.4.8.3 Hedging
1.4.8.4 Cash management
1.4.8.5 Rebalancing
1.4.8.6 Tax loss strategy
1.4.8.7 Risks and other considerations
1.5 ETF Liquidity Myth
Different Flavors for ETFs
1.6 Sector ETFs
CLOSED-END ETFs
1.7 What is a Closed-End ETF?
1.8 Is a Closed-End ETF closed to new investments?
1.9 How do I buy/sell Closed-End ETFs?
1.10 Is there a sales charge associated with purchasing shares?
1.11 How can I hold my Closed-End ETF?
1.12 What is a rights offering?
1.13 What is an automatic dividend reinvestment plan?
1.14 What is the portfolio composition of these funds?
1.15 What is leverage and how is it used?
1.16 Can Closed-End ETFs go out of business?
1.17 Can an investor make money by buying funds selling at a discount?
1.18 Are dividends paid on Closed-End ETFs?
1.19 How long has the taxable preferred securities market existed?
1.20 What makes taxable preferred securities different from regular preferred securities?
1.21 Who are the buyers for $25 par taxable preferred securities?
1.22 Who are the buyers for $1000 par value taxable preferred securities?
1.23 Why Were REITs Created?
1.24 How Does a Company Qualify as a REIT?
1.25 Who Invests in REITs?
1.26 How are REITs Different from Limited Partnerships?
1.27 How do Shareholders Treat REIT Distributions for Tax Purposes?
Asset Allocation with ETFs
1.28 The importance of asset allocation
1.29 Investor Profiles
1.30 Asset Classes
1.31 Asset Allocation the Easy Way
ETFs versus Mutual Funds
Fixed Income ETFs: Trading in a Bear Market
Book Value and Small Cap Growth/Value ETFs
Model Portfolios
1.32 Basic Domestic Stock/Bond Split
1.33 Basic global stock/bond split
1.34 Core & More Model Portfolio
1.35 Slice & Dice Model Portfolios
MarketVolume™(MV) Indicators Overview
With MarketVolume's indicators (MV indicators) you
can predict directional changes in the market with ease
1.36 What is the New York Stock Exchange Indicator?
1.37 How to read the New York Stock Exchange Indicator?
1.38 How to read the NASDAQ Indicator?
1.39 How to read the American Stock Exchange Indicator?
Index Indicators:
1.40 How to read the Dow Jones Industrials Indicator?
1.41 How to read the Dow Jones Transports Indicator?
1.42 How to read the Dow Jones Utilities Indicator?
1.43 How to read the NASDAQ 100 Indicator?
1.44 How to read the S&P 100 Indicator?
1.45 How to read the S&P Mid Cap 400 Indicator?
1.46 How to read the S&P 500 Indicator?
1.47 How to read the S&P Small Cap 600 Indicator?
1.48 How to read the Russell 1000 Indicator?
1.49 How to read the Russell 2000 Indicator?
1.50 How to read the Russell 3000 Indicator?
1.51 How to read the S&P Market Movers Indicator?
Volume Introduction
1.52 Index Volume
1.53 Exchange Volume
1.54 MV Select Volume
1.55 Why Volume?
1.56 Why is volume a trader's best friend.
1.57 What is a Chart?
1.57.1 Chart Example
1.58 Volume Moving Average – VMA
1.59 Upside/Downside VMA's
1.60 Up/Down Volume
1.61 Example for mid-term traders playing long.
1.62 Example for Short-Term traders playing long.
1.63 Understand Critical Volume by Using Multiple Charts
Intraday Scalping
1.63.1 8 Important rules to follow when index scalping with our volume indicators:
Normalized Volume
Volume Averaging
Volume Analysis
Advantages of Trading Index Securities:
All About Index Shares
1.64 New Opportunities arise with ETFs:
What is QQQQ?
1.65 Trading QQQQ:
What are SPDRs?
1.66 Trading SPDRs:
What are DIAMONDS?
1.67 Trading DIAMONDS:
1.68 “Best Short-term trade”
The relationships between volume spikes and index reversal points
1.69 Terminology
1.70 Basic principles
1.71 Practical considerations
1.72 Chart examples
1.73 Conclusions
Several Ways to Profit from MarketVolume (MV) Services
1.74 How to make money using our Market Commentary?
1.75 NASDAQ 100: For Long-Term Traders
1.76 Nasdaq 100: For Short-Term Traders
1.77 The Power of the Head and Shoulders
Frequently Asked Questions
1.78 What is an index ETF?
1.79 Are basket-based products such as HOLDRs also index ETFs?
1.80 What is the difference between a unit investment
trust and a managed investment company?
1.81 Will index ETFs replace index mutual funds?
1.82 Do investors receive the voting rights associated with the underlying stocks?
1.83 How do I buy and sell index ETFs?
1.84 What are the tax implications of trading index ETFs?
1.85 How can I hold my index ETF?
1.86 Are index ETF expenses low?
1.87 How is the net asset value and market price of an index ETF linked?
1.88 What is tracking error?
1.89 How do index ETFs handle dividends?
1.90 Why is the gap between the price and net asset
value greater on some index ETFs than on others?
1.91 Do index ETFs use leverage?
1.92 Why do some investors purchase a basket of sector funds
(that replicate a broad market index)
instead of a broad market index fund?
1.93 Are there actively managed index ETFs?
1.94 What is the difference between an index ETF and a futures contract on an index?
1.95 How can I use index ETFs to manage my portfolio?
1.96 Can index ETFs be used to hedge portfolios?
1.97 What is the turnover difference between passively managed
index-based ETFs and actively managed funds?
1.98 What is the difference between various fixed income indexes?
1.99 Why do index-based fixed-income ETFs sometimes trade at a
premium to NAV during days when the fixed income markets are closed?
1.100 Do index-based ETFs hold every security in the underlying index?
What is Trading System?
What is Market Timing?
Why Technical Analysis is important for a Trader?
Technical Analysis Tips
ETF Glossary
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