All Things ETF

Its triple witching hour for options. The markets have been trading in a very tight trading band over the last two weeks. It's not even sideways anymore. This is the time that you should be working your investment plan. It feels like everyone is holding their breath, waiting for the next guy to jump in. There's that 'Jaws' music playing in the background again. 6/19/2009 1:19 PM

With so much information coming for everywhere, whom do you trust? Sheesh! Do you buy, sell or hold? What do you buy, sell or hold? Do you run for cover every time the market retreats 100 to 200 points, or do you just throw in the towel and go to high quality bonds. Well, you could lose lot of money in bonds also. Or, you could do like legendary investor Warren Buffet , buy value and stick with the investment as long as the value fundamentals of that investment stays constant over the next five years. One thing is for sure, if you stick to quality and value in this market you may still emerge unscathed. Here is a list of five large-cap value ETFs that deserves a second look. These five large cap value ETFs are about the same in performance, price, return, risks, portfolio holdings, fees and management . 1. Vanguard Value ETF (NYSE ARCA: VTV ) 2. Diamonds Trust ETF (NYSE ARCA: DIA ) 3. iShares Russell 100 Value (NYSE: IWD ) 4. SPDR Dow Jones ETF (NYSE: ELV ) 5. iShares NYSE 100 Index...

Volume of the ProShares Technology Fund (NYSE ARCA : ROM ) is heavy today. Now would be a good time to pick up some shares. There is approximately $3 per share profit to be made. On up DOW days the fund will easily trade above $33. 6/17/2009 11:03 AM

Wow! I posted nothing yesterday. I flaked out. The market posted nothing also. It was a nothing day! 06/17/09 07:53:55 AM

The markets have pulled backed sharply today. The DOW was down over 200 points as of 12:17 pm. During the summer months- June, July and August, market activity naturally slows down. This is normally a good time to implement strategy. From a tactical standpoint, you use this time to adjust your existing portfolio and reallocate resources to industries and companies that you believe fits your investment goals. For example, my overall strategy is to focus on companies that we believe will do well in this political environment such as health care, technology, oil, gas and alternative energy, and lastly real estate. Our goals are to look for and build positions in funds that have strong positions in companies with good valuations. That is what I will be working on today. On that note, volume on the ProShares Technology Fund (NYSE ARCA: ROM ) is above average, though the fund is down around 4% today. ProShares also have a short fund to their long fund, the ProShares Ultra Short Technology F...

It's good to be back this morning. I hope everyone had a nice restful weekend. Trying to clear the fog from my head and get going. Time to make some money or at least attempt to make some money. Ha! Lakers won! Who didn't see that coming. Stay tuned, will be posting important strategy for the week. 06/15/09 09:18 AM

The markets started strong yesterday then faded, but ended slightly in positive territory yesterday. Again that tug-o-war, and again, we are seeing oil prices skyrocketing for no reason other than greed, in my opinion. As the world largest consumer of energy products, the American consumer is really at the mercy of the greedy oil cartels and now institutional oil traders. It just makes me so angry to see how the markets are so easily manipulated. Oil up again at $73 a barrel by noon yesterday. The ProShares Technology Fund (NYSE ARCA: ROM ) experienced heavy trading but also lost steam in the last 30 min of trading yesterday. Here is a great 2 day technical chart of the fund in a short burst to the upside. Pinpoint the buy signal price if you can. Correction : Barclays Global Investment Unit which includes the iShares portfolio was sold originally to CVC Capital partners for $4.4 billion but Barclays, PLC renegotiated a better deal with US fund manager Black Rock, Inc for $13.5...