Here are a few ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) exhibiting the Fundamental Swing Trading pattern I mention in my swing trading educational eBook Swing Trading Fundamentals.

By viewing this blog you agree:

Neither the Swing Trade Playbook nor the ETF Updater “Lite” are solicitations to purchase or sell securities. It is an informational service. I am not a financial advisor therefore you should consult your financial advisor for suitability before making any investment decisions.

Remember, we actively trade these ETFs, so always assume we already own them.

FAQ about the ETF Updater and the ETF Updater’s Service

Other services of the ETF Updater:

Swing Trade Playbook:

The Playbook gives subscribers to look at the trades I anticipate trading during the next trading session. I screen over 600 securities seeking out the best ETFs for buying and the worst ETFs for good short selling opportunities.

Subscribers see my anticipated entry prices, exit prices, share sizes and the expected volatility for each ETF.

All informational products are disseminated the night before a possible trade can occur allowing all subscribers equal and ample time to participate.

Swing Trading Fundamentals:

Swing Trading Fundamentals is an eBook that outlines how I trade. Some of the topics include Market Stages, Swing Trade Entry Signals, Stop Losses and Exit Strategies, Hedging the Portfolio, Stock Selection Ideas and many more topics.

If you’re interested in learning how I swing trade the Swing Trading Fundamentals eBook is for your.

Mike Matousek, CMT
Portfolio Manager, ETF Updater
http://etfupdater.com/

Here are a few ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) exhibiting the Fundamental Swing Trading pattern I mention in my swing trading educational eBook Swing Trading Fundamentals.

By viewing this blog you agree:

Neither the Swing Trade Playbook nor the ETF Updater “Lite” are solicitations to purchase or sell securities. It is an informational service. I am not a financial advisor therefore you should consult your financial advisor for suitability before making any investment decisions.

Remember, we actively trade these ETFs, so always assume we already own them.

FAQ about the ETF Updater and the ETF Updater’s Service

Other services of the ETF Updater:

Swing Trade Playbook:

The Playbook gives subscribers to look at the trades I anticipate trading during the next trading session. I screen over 600 securities seeking out the best ETFs for buying and the worst ETFs for good short selling opportunities.

Subscribers see my anticipated entry prices, exit prices, share sizes and the expected volatility for each ETF.

All informational products are disseminated the night before a possible trade can occur allowing all subscribers equal and ample time to participate.

Swing Trading Fundamentals:

Swing Trading Fundamentals is an eBook that outlines how I trade. Some of the topics include Market Stages, Swing Trade Entry Signals, Stop Losses and Exit Strategies, Hedging the Portfolio, Stock Selection Ideas and many more topics.

Here are a few ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) exhibiting the Fundamental Swing Trading pattern I mention in my swing trading educational eBook Swing Trading Fundamentals.

By viewing this blog you agree:

Neither the Swing Trade Playbook nor the ETF Updater “Lite” are solicitations to purchase or sell securities. It is an informational service. I am not a financial advisor therefore you should consult your financial advisor for suitability before making any investment decisions.

Remember, we actively trade these ETFs, so always assume we already own them.

FAQ about the ETF Updater and the ETF Updater’s Service

Other services of the ETF Updater:

Swing Trade Playbook:

The Playbook gives subscribers to look at the trades I anticipate trading during the next trading session. I screen over 600 securities seeking out the best ETFs for buying and the worst ETFs for good short selling opportunities.

Subscribers see my anticipated entry prices, exit prices, share sizes and the expected volatility for each ETF.

All informational products are disseminated the night before a possible trade can occur allowing all subscribers equal and ample time to participate.

Swing Trading Fundamentals:

Swing Trading Fundamentals is an eBook that outlines how I trade. Some of the topics include Market Stages, Swing Trade Entry Signals, Stop Losses and Exit Strategies, Hedging the Portfolio, Stock Selection Ideas and many more topics.

If you’re interested in learning how I swing trade the Swing Trading Fundamentals eBook is for your.

Mike Matousek, CMT
Portfolio Manager, ETF Updater
http://etfupdater.com

As ETFs have become more and more popular, I wanted to bring to our readers’ attention some indirect ways to invest in this growing trend.

Think about this; every time you buy or sell an ETF, there is a distributor, custodian, commission, and exchange that benefit from the transaction. While the following stocks have their own investment risks, I hope the symbols below can provide you with a starting point for investment ideas and profits:

This is not a solicitation or offer to purchase any securities. It is for informational purposes only.

AMTD
ETFC
SCHW
BCS
DB
MER
MS
TROW
WSDT
BK
STT
SEIC
GFIG
NYX
NDAQ
MF

Amaury
Contributing Author, ETF Updater
http://etfupdater.com/

Contrary to popular belief you don’t need to trade big share sizes to make a decent amount of money in the market.

In addition to trading for a living, I manage subscription based educational service called the Swing Trade Playbook. The idea behind the Playbook and this blog is to educate individuals about ETFs, trading, swing trading and day trading.

Every weekday night my Swing Trade Playbook outlines my trading plan for the next trading day. By doing this, I allow individuals to “peek over my shoulder” and see tomorrows trading plan today!

Today’s lesson, you don’t need to trade large size to earn a good living swing trading. The image below shows the positions my Swing Trade Playbook shared with subscribers about one week ago. As you can see the largest position is only 1,136 shares and if you were to enter the positions your unrealized P&L would be pretty close to $21,000 with an initial risk of approximately $7,000 (a 3 to 1 reward to risk ratio).

I wanted to show this since a potential subscriber emailed and asked how I can make any money trading small share sizes.

If you would like to learn more about my Swing Trade Playbook go to my website http://etfupdater.com/examples.

Mike Matousek, CMT
Portfolio Manager, ETF Updater
http://etfupdater.com

This weekend an individual wanted to learn how we trade ETFs.

I’ll start by saying there is no one Holy Grail in trading and to be successful traders only need to understand a couple of strategies.

The core strategy behind my method is to purchase ETFs during pullbacks and short ETFs during rallies. I feel my method offers less risk than traders buying breakouts and selling break downs since the majority of the trades are entered during either “oversold” or “overbought” conditions.

As many of my subscribers noticed I don’t have many breakout plays in my ETF Swing Trade Playbook and here is why:

Contrary to the “inexperienced” traders’ belief, the majority of breakouts are unsuccessful! Sure, it is easy to look at a chart and identify the best breakout points that happened in the past, but what most inexperienced traders fail to notice is how many breakouts fail – maybe this is why most inexperienced traders are unsuccessful.

Breakouts, the successful ones, don’t happen as often as people think. Realistically, there are only a few times each year an individual sector actually has the opportunity for a good breakout to exist.

Breakouts have greater risk. If a trader believes in trends, support and resistance levels the actual price in which the trend is broken, the stop loss price, is much farther away from the entry price on breakout trades. Therefore, to give the trade the opportunity to work the “wiggle” or stop loss level has to be larger than the “wiggle” for pullback strategies.

The majority of newsletters generally focus on breakouts, since my Swing Trade Playbook focuses on pullbacks and rallies, not only can subscribers diversify their trade discovery tools, but subscribers get see the trades I anticipate doing the day before I do them along with original and uncommon trading methodologies.

Sure, I do trade some breakouts, but they are not my core strategy since, technical analysis research has shown breakout type strategies fail more often than succeed. Generally, wait for the breakout to happen, confirm itself and then I buy the pullback.

I have an educational book called Swing Trade Fundamentals it details the how and why concerning finding trades, determine the correct amount to shares to purchase, determining entry points, exit points and much more.

If you would like to learn more about swing trading, day trading and investing feel free to sign up for our free weekly swing trading educational newsletter at http://etfupdater.com or click here.

Mike Matousek, CMT
Portfolio Manager, ETF Updater
http://etfupdater.com

Best Performing ETFs for Friday December 14, 2007

Energy, specifically clean energy and Commodities (Gold) were the only two sector ETFs I track that were positive on the day.

PBW PwrShr WilderHill Clean Energy 1.55%
GLD StreetTRACKS Gold Trust 0.15%

Worst Performing ETFs for Friday December 14, 2007

It seems the heavy selling was in the Real estate and Banking ETFs.

KBE SPDR Series KBW Bank -4.45%
ICF iShares Cohen & Steers Rlty Ma -3.62%
RWX SPDR DJ Wilshire Intl Real Est -3.43%
RWR SPDR DJ Wilshire REIT -2.93%
VNQ Vanguard REIT ETF -2.89%

Mike Matousek, CMT
Portfolio Manager, ETF Updater
http://etfupdater.com

The BIG story of the week was the FOMC meeting on Tuesday…and the market’s disappointment in ‘only’ 25 bps cuts on the Fed and discount rates. The Fed then surprised investors the next morning, in a coordinated plan with other global central banks, by injecting up to $40 billion in reserves into the financial markets in order to improve liquidity.

November PPI came in higher at 3.2% versus 1.5% (core at 0.4% versus 0.2%) on Thursday, and November CPI at 0.8% versus 0.6% (core at 0.3% versus 0.2%) on Friday. A better than expected Advanced Retail Sales (1.2% versus 0.6% expected in November) failed to impress investors, especially as reports that online sales for November and December are running below the 26% pace of a year earlier.

The major indices finished the week lower:
Dow Jones -2.10%
S&P500 -2.44%
Nasdaq -2.60%
Russell 2000 -4.02%

The US Dollar rallied 1.5% as investors pared down expectations for further rate cuts on the back of the biggest increase in consumer expectations in two years. Gold finished the week at $798, down $2.20.

Check out next week’s calendar at:
http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/ecalendar/index.html

Amaury
Contributing Author, ETF Updater
http://etfupdater.com/

The ETF Sector Rotation Strategy (our strategy for longer term investors) lost ground today, but the positions are still in positive territory.

The Swing Trading Playbook has been hitting it out of the park all week. We had very few trading signals since the positions entered earlier in the week are working great. The Playbook is up about 4.5% for the week and holding a few unrealized gains over the weekend and into next week.

It looks like Monday may be the time to hedge the portfolio or start ringing the register on few positions.

Here is a screen shot of the open positions for the Swing Trade Playbook. As you can see, huge positions are not necessary to make money swing trading. The key this week was keeping the losses small and letting the winners run.

To learn more about how you can benefit from us visit http://etfupdater.com/.

Have a good weekend!

Mike Matousek, CMT
Portfolio Manager, ETF Updater
http://etfupdater.com/