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Friday, November 20, 2009

What Goes Into 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.

There are over 100 different exchange traded funds listed by the American Stock Exchange. These funds represent a wide range of indexes and market sectors, including industries, all of the broader stock market indexes, most sectors in the markets and also international regions around the world. An ETF can also engage in representation of Treasury and corporate bond 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.

Any size investor (large institutional or small individual) will readily see the numerous advantages to participation in an exchange traded fund. Small investors normally are participating through a trading system, so keep that in mind. Costs involved in running an ETF are usually much lower and -- as they are not indexed based -- management fees are also very low.

This is particularly attractive, and is made possible because an ETF is not considered to be actively managed on a very close basis. In other words, there are not a lot of movements in the fund that require management to get involved on trades and such. This is supported by the fact that studies reveal that there is no advantage with actively managed funds over these kinds.

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. - 23210

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