Wagner Trading ETFs

Gaining an Edge with Technical Analysis
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-470-88329-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Bloomberg Professional

An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a basket of stocks that trades onan exchange with the same simplicity and liquidity of an individualstock. By the end of 2007, 546 ETFs were trading on U.S. exchangesand some 450 were in registration. The total asset growth of ETFshas been equally impressive, doubling every year since 1994 andreaching $5.8 billion in 2007.
In Trading ETFs: Gaining an Edge with Technical Analysismoney manager Deron Wagner introduces the major types and familiesof ETFs and then provides step-by-step guidance to picking andtrading funds.
Benefits of ETFs include:
* Exposure to equities at a lower level of risk than tradingindividual stocks
* Lower fees
* Access to markets that were previously difficult and expensiveto participate in, including: Government Treasury bonds,international markets, commodities and even currencies.
Unlike other books on ETFs, Wagner's strategies are based ontechnical analysis, a method of timing the market that greatlyimproves an investor's chances of predicting short and intermediateterm ETF trends.
Benefits of Wagner's approach include:
* A 'top down' trading strategy that increases an investor's oddsof success
* A method for identifying the strongest sector indexes
* A method for identifying the ETF families with the greatestrelative strength
ETFs are as easy to invest in as mutual funds and they will soonbe as popular. Wagner's comprehensive catalog of the ETFs nowavailable, his insights into successful trading techniques, and hissolid research and informative examples, will be an invaluableresource for everyone trying to come up to speed on this newinvestment opportunity.
Gold Medal Winner (tie), Investing Category, Axiom BusinessBook Awards (2009)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wagner, Deron

Weitere Mitwirkende

Appel, Marvin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword.
Acknowledgments.
Part One: ETF Overview and Selection.
1 Why Use Technical Analysis with ETFs?
2 Major Types and Families of ETFs.
Part Two: ETF Selection Through Technical Analysis.
3 The Top-Down Strategy.
4 Finding Indexes with the Most Relative Strength.
5 Selecting the Best ETFs.
6 Supplementing the Basics.
Part Three: Timing Your Entries and Exits.
7 Strategies for Entry.
8 Strategies for Exit.
9 Ten ETFs Bought Long.
10 Ten ETFs Sold Short.
Part Four: Fine-Tuning Your Strategy.
11 Tailoring Your Approach.
12 Additional Pointers.
Afterword.
Suggested Reading.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Deron Wagner is the founder and head portfolio manager of Morpheus Capital LP, a U.S. hedge fund, and Morpheus Trading Group, a trader education firm that provides daily technical analysis of leading ETFs and stocks. Wagner is coauthor of The Long-Term Day Trader (Career Press, 2000) and The After-Hours Trader (McGraw-Hill, 2000), and he also appears in his popular DVD, Sector Trading Strategies. He teaches his trading methodology to nearly 3,000 Internet subscribers of his free weekly newsletter, The Wagner Weekly, and has a subscription newsletter, The Wagner Daily. He is a frequent guest speaker at various financial seminars around the world and has appeared on CNBC and ABC.