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Friday, November 20, 2009

What To Know About ETF Trading

By Patrick Deaton

Understanding what goes into ETF trading (and ETF is what is known as an exchange traded fund) will be necessary before deciding to participate in an ETF. As an investment vehicle, these funds can deliver good returns on investment with a little bit of effort. ETFs are index funds set up to track one of the large market indexes such as the S&P 500, for example.

Additionally, an ETF can also be set up as a trust. Regardless, their general structure resembles a mutual fund, and they all contain a large basket of securities. ETFs have listings on the stock exchanges and can be traded throughout the day, which is sometimes known as intraday. Traders tend to look at the intraday trading as a way to make money from the activities in an ETF.

Currently, there are over 100 different ETFs on the American Stock Exchange. Most ETFs have a wide range market sectors and indexes that they represent. They are involved in many industries, most stock market indexes, many sectors in individual markets and also represent many international regions. They also may represent a wide range of corporate bond or Treasury indexes.

Those investors who are thinking of participating in ETFs should know that investors will be buying and selling shares based on the collective performance of a particular portfolio which is treated as a single security. The benefits to such trading activity are numerous, including that this combines stock investment liquidity with the stability of investing in index funds.

For an investor of any size -- including large institutional or small non-institutional investors -- there are a great many advantages in participating in an ETF (small investors usually get into it through a trading system). Fund costs are usually much lower due to the lower annual expenses and, since they're not indexed based, they usually have low management fees.

The reason this is so is because most ETFs aren't actively managed throughout the trading day. They moved on much broader scales than what day traders engage in out in the markets. Another way of saying this is that there is not a great deal of movement in the fun that requires management to get involved in. Most studies point out that there's really no difference between actively managed funds and these.

Exchange traded funds are set up deliberately to operate this way because they've tied their net asset values -- which are determined during the trading day -- to the assets underlying the fund. This gives a very good transparency to any exchange traded fund, because the fund itself is designed to replicate the holdings that are contained in the index that it is tracking and is tied to.

Most small investors usually trade throughout the day through pricing and trading of security portfolios. ETF trading makes this possible because there aren't any restrictions placed on trading activity, such as restricting trades to once a day, at the end of the day. Many small investors using a trading system, though, do this. Additionally, ETF pricing is also available throughout the day, making it particularly attractive. - 23221

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