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I love this web site, especially the blogs. A lot of the great advice, stock picks, new idea's, research. And I believe there's a lot of entertainment factor here if you enjoy the investmenrt crowd. Jon Coyle's blog about buying ETF's for some reason entrigued me. I have never bought ETF's , I guess because the time I take to invest in evaluating stocks how could I work ETF's in. Well was I surprised at what I found. There is something for everyone with every type of investing interest. I saw a whole new world. Now, I, consider myself a pretty good Mutual fund investor but, the volatity just isn't there. Besides how exciting is watching the numbers turn over at 5:30 PM everynite? I still own them because they have a place in my investing stradegy. Now, back to ETF's. How great is that you can buy a small mutual fund and the price changes throughout the day? I found it quite interesting. So it began, I started with Proshares, all of them so as not to leave any slip past me. I first looked for % gains over YTD, 3 months, 4 weeks & 5 days and picked out the best gainers. The reason I didn't go back further than 3 months was because of the way the market has been it didn't seem to make much sense since 3 months ago is actually 1/2 to 3 years as far as stock price's go, so why waste time? Well, that widdled down the group to about 15. I spent some time looking over the individual holdings just to make sure they knew what they were doing, You know, I didn't want to be buying any lame ducks. Well it seemed to me they hold mostly commonly held stocks with a few ETF's holding some unkowns but not many. I quickly came to realize that they know what they are doing. I then began charting the earnings and growth of the ETF's over 5 days , 3 months and YTD and found to my astonishment a lot of these ETF's are beating the markets. I scratched my head, sharpened my pencil and it was so. As bad as the markets have been 8 have beat the markets substantially. I was surprised that the financials have been doing so well recently. Well now I have myself a watch list made and after I was done I felt confident enough in PIO (Water Companys), PEJ (Leisure & Entertainment), PKB (Building and Construction), PZI ( Micro Caps) to purchse in my SLOR2 portfolio and ADRE ( Emerging Markets ) & ADRU ( European Markets ) I plan to buy Monday in my personal portfolio. I have a soft spot for the emerging market's, It just has done so well the last 2 years. My overall take on the market is momentum growing in micros, small caps and then the very large Value Corperations able to buy and sell the competition.These are also areas of the markets I believe are gaining momentum. One thing I learned was that as with Mutual funds they are a seemingly safe investment vehicle. It's not my cup of tea but, I am all about making money and this sure has a place in my investment stratadgy. As the markets turn for the better, I also believe this is going to take a lot of the volatilly out of our retrurns.Therefore make more money quicker and hold it longer than individual stocks. So, thanks Jonathon for sharing , I know it will help my portfolio grow and really that's all we really want. Now its time to vote in case your new to this and aren't sure what to do next. Please. Its up top at the stars, just click one, OK? Thank's and as always comments are welcome, all of them good or bad. Timeismoney | ||
