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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Effective ETF Trading System Tips For Beginners

By Patrick Deaton

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.

Setting a stop-loss and committing to it will provide a level of safety when trading with a new system. The ETF moves in 15 second intervals during the trading day. A lot can happen very fast. A person who is trying to figure out a new system, and monitor a sector at the same time can miss opportunities to move at the most opportune time.

Setting buy and sell points and/or "take profit" prices is also a great part of a good safety net. If a person has not quite gotten the knack for spotting trends and knowing when things are getting ready to tank down yet. Having buy and sell points can get you out of trouble before you get into it. Once you feel confident with technical and historical analysis of your sectors you may want to relax the strategies that you employ for safety. But many traders use the setting buy and sell points strategy very successfully throughout their trading.

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. - 23167

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