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Tips For Beginners: Effective ETF Trading System |
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Written by PatrickDeaton
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Wednesday, 23 December 2009 |
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There are many effective different strategies, methods, and systems when one begins learning and working in ETF trading. Finding the ETF Trading System that will be most effective will be a matter of matching your personal style, your ETF goals, and your skills together and then working through the system to see if it will fit effectively.
by PatrickDeaton
There are many effective different strategies, methods, and systems when one begins learning and working in ETF trading. Finding the ETF Trading System that will be most effective will be a matter of matching your personal style, your ETF goals, and your skills together and then working through the system to see if it will fit effectively.
Many websites offer books, training, or secrets about an effective system that is guaranteed to work. The really effective websites offer training and books on all of the systems that are available so that you can find the one that works best for you.
Starting small and slow with ETF trading is going to provide an opportunity to learn the techniques that work best. Many successful ETF traders agree that the learning curve for ETF training is around two years. If a person loses nothing in the first year, most of these traders agree that it has been an excellent year for that beginner. Setting realistic goals and expectations and setting up a safety net will be extremely helpful in making it through the learning curve unscathed.
There are a few steps that one can take to ensure that they have a safety net when moving through the learning curve. One is to set a stop-loss and stick to it. By setting a stop-loss, a person is not going to lose more than they expect. The ETF moves in fifteen second increments during the trading day. A person can lose a lot of gains in that amount of time if they are using the wrong system or strategy for them.
Another helpful net when beginning will be to set buy and sell points or set take profit prices. This will be a huge help until you have got a good knowledge base of how ETF trading works. Once you know how to do the technical and historical analysis that makes any system and strategy you use work more effectively, you will be able to have less structure in your safety net. But until you feel very comfortable with ETF trading, the stronger your safety net is, the more consistent your gains will be.
When you are looking at the different types of ETF trading systems that are available, they will have a risk rating. A person who is just beginning ETF trading will be more successful working in sectors that have clear trends to track and have a risk rating that is medium low to medium. There may be some low risk systems, I just haven't seen any.
Any system that has trend following in some part of it is a good way to learn the structure of ETF trading and make effective use of the trends that are happening in a sector. Many new traders start with an ETFA (Exponential Moving Average) system. This system is a medium low to medium risk, easy to use system that basically is about trend following. The trader sets parameters for fast EMAs and slow EMAs and when the lines cross, you move. The system is most effective with RTH, SMH, SPY (long only), XLE, XLF, and TLT.
Tracking a system to see how effective it is will be a huge help when learning systems and strategies. By tracking before trading a person can develop the knowledge and confidence they need to make effective trades proactively. Another advantage of tracking before trading is that a person can track several systems on the same sector at the same time and see the effectiveness of each system for easy comparison.
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