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Monday, January 4, 2010

ETF Trend Trading For Beginners

By Patrick Deaton

If you've just entered ETF trading you are going to hear a lot about different types of trading, methods, and strategies. One of the popular discussions will include ETF Trend Trading. Some people talk about trend trading as though it is a separate kind of trading that isn't related to ETF trading as a whole. Some sites will talk about ETF trend trading as a way to increase one's gains in trading.

When people begin to look at ETF trading they usually will read books, take some courses, and get information from successful traders. In all of this information there will be one theme that will make a trader successful. That is to do a technical analysis and historic data collection on the sector that is going to be traded. You do this to spot trends and patterns. When a trend starts, you jump in. When the trend reverses, you get out.

There are different types of trends that a technical analysis can be used for. When a person does a three to five year analysis on a section they are focusing more on the short term. Short term indicators may show the changing trends, but those trends may be more affected by other variables in the current market and may have some false indicators that will not be helpful in reaching the kind of gains that a person is working towards.

It is very easy for a person to get caught up in the analytics of sectors when they are trying to make the most favorable trading decisions. In order to keep from being bogged down in the details and lose valuable time trading, it is a good idea to decide what type of ETF trend trading you are going to do as far as technical analysis and stick with it.

When a technical analysis is done on a section that covers one to three years, it is called short-term trends. These trends are more volatile when analyzed by themselves because it is hard to spot a long term trend or pattern within them. Some sectors that have a yearly upswing due to a product presentation will have a clear trend line for those times. But, it will be hard to tell what the long term trend for that sector is.

Long term trends last from ten to thirty years. Within these trends are intermediate trends. When a person does ETF trend trading using long term trend technical analysis they can identify intermediate and short term trends and take advantage of the opportunities that are presented over the long term. Long term trending provides information that is more consistent for a sector.

When traders act on trends without having the background to know when to get in and when to get out, they can suffer losses. However, a person can use an intermediate trend in a sector to their advantage if they know that the same patter occurs every four years and what the buy and sell limits for that trend should be.

There are opportunities for individuals with long term ETFs to take advantages of trend trading as well. Even long term ETFs reverse course. If a person has done the analytics on a sector over a thirty year period and sees when the trend is going to reverse, they can take appropriate action before losing assets on the sector they are involved with. - 23167

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