Understanding Good ETF Trading Strategies

Posted by Patrick Deaton

December 4, 2009

Today, exchange traded funds or ETFs make for a great investment vehicle that hold out the possibility of a good income for those traitors willing to take the time to learn how to make exchange traded funds really work. Understanding good ETF trading strategies, though, is probably one of the first things to learn after gaining an understanding of the basics of what ETFs are.

These particular funds resemble mutual funds in some ways, especially in how they are set up. Additionally, ETFs usually restrict membership — if you want to call it that — to what ETFs refer to as “authorized participants.” This usually means institutional investors who have the ability to buy and sell huge blocks of assets. Small investors can participate through ETF trading systems, though.

Imagine corporate stocks and how they are traded or bought and sold and you will have a good idea of how exchange traded funds are also moved through the markets. Almost every exchange traded fund establishes its operations so that it can track one or several of the major market indexes. For example, many track the S&P 500. This makes it easier to follow trends and set up trading strategies.

For a fact, there are endless trading strategies out there that can be used to track market movements and then timing buying and selling by those movements. Most, however, fall into two categories known as technical trading strategies and fundamental trading strategies. Technical strategists believe they can pick out shapes and patterns in market movements.

Those traitors who are good at picking out patterns and shapes in the movement of markets use stock charts to do so. Income earned can be very lucrative if done correctly. Those movements upwards or downwards can, basically, be timed through analysis and then markets can be exploited by those movements through trading of stocks at the right time.

One of the most common technical trading strategies used by many traders is what is called a “moving average cross.” Moving average crosses try to match up a short-term evolution in the price of the stock and superimpose that over a long-term trend in that same stock or market. By tracking a short-term up-and-down movement over– to 25 days, it may be possible to establish a moving average line.

Once this line is established, it can be superimposed over the short term evolution analysis in order to determine which way the stock price in the ETF will go through the moving average line after it is crossed. The bottom, or long-term trend analysis usually consists of looking at a 50-day moving average. This longer timeline tends to smooth or dampen out those short-term trends.

In this manner, ETF traders can look at the long-term trends and create a moving support line. Usually, traders using this technical strategy will look at purchasing a stock as it begins its upward movement or once it goes back up after it has touched or slightly penetrated the 50 day moving average. Opposite, a trader could sell the stock short. Either way can work effectively.

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