When we buy one share of the Qs (Powershares Exchange-Traded Fund Trust – Powershares Qqq Trust, (NASDAQ:QQQQ) for $45, we are purchasing a piece of all 100 shares in the fund. So how does that work? Are we applying $0.50 towards each stock? It’s actually a bit more complicated than that.
The Qs are an exchange-traded [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Exchange-traded funds'
ETFs- How they Operate and the Pros and Cons
January 23rd, 2010 · 27 Comments
Tags: Exchange-traded funds
The Covered Call Versus the Naked Put plus Keep an Eye on this ETF
July 26th, 2009 · 31 Comments
A will is a legal document that expresses the wishes of the author with respect to the disposition of property after the author’s death. So is a revocable trust. So they’re the same, right? WRONG. On the surface they are similar but when inspected closer there are differences that make one document more appropriate for a [...]
Tags: Exchange-traded funds · economic news · naked puts
Understanding the Significance of the Risk-Reward Profile plus More on ETFs
July 12th, 2009 · 23 Comments
When we make informed decisions about our investments, information is gathered, evaluated and interpreted. Then we act appropriately, based on intelligent, non-emotional reasoning. We never make an investment choice based on one piece of information (not even the tip you got by the water cooler!). For example, we don’t buy a stock simply because it [...]
Tags: Exchange-traded funds · economic news · risk-reward profile
Beware of Leveraged ETFs; The Changing Face of Exchange-Traded Funds
June 28th, 2009 · 12 Comments
How would you feel if your best friend and next door neighbor was metamorphasizing into a monster? A Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde if you will. Could that be happening to our old friend, the Exchange Traded Fund? The historical definition of an ETF is a security that tracks an index, a commodity or a basket [...]
Tags: Exchange-traded funds · economic news
