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While I’m of the camp that believes that the subprime meltdown will be relatively contained and that the economy and the stock markets will get through this current correction without a collapse in prices, there’s really no way to know for sure. The last few weeks may triggered profit taking or stop losses in your […]
I mentioned yesterday that inverse ETFs could be used in place of straight shorting for those that do not have access to margin accounts and, subsequently, the ability to short. After doing some more research on inverse ETFs, I realized that I should not have said that they give you exactly the same exposure. Shorting […]
So, you think you got what it takes to be a big shot hedge fund manager? Well, with ETFs at your disposal, you can practice similar hedging tactics as many hedge funds in your own portfolio. Now, let’s get something clear, a hedge fund is an investment fund which practices hedging as a way to […]
Now that we’ve been through most of the exchange traded products out there. Let’s take a look at how we can use them. The most popular use of ETFs these days has been for passive indexing sometimes referred to as an ETF wrap. For those of you who are familiar with mutual fund wraps the […]
The last of the exchange traded products that we’ll be looking at is HOLDRs. HOLDRs are trust-issued receipts which represent actual ownership of a basket of stocks. They are a bit more difficult to own for small investors as it is necessary to buy HOLDRs in round lots of 100 and essentially represent the same […]
Just as ETFs were becoming common place, one of the leading providers of ETFs, Barclay’s Bank, decided to throw a wrinkle into the whole thing. Barclay’s is the provider of iShares ETFs and recently launched a new class of exchange traded securities called the Exchange Traded Note (ETN). The use of ETFs and ETNs are […]
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