The use of sell stops and re-investing monies you have been stopped out of as the market resumes its upward trend, has been the hot topic of the past few weeks. Reader Paul had this to add: A few questions regarding your tactics for reentering the market with “stopped out” money: 1. Typically, what kicks off your decision to start …
An Emerging-Markets Bubble?
The WSJ featured an interesting viewpoint in “Are ETFs Causing an Emerging-Markets Bubble?” Here are a few highlights: U.S. investors have pumped roughly $26 billion into emerging-markets funds so far this year. Of that, $15 billion came in through exchange-traded funds — portfolios that hold every stock in a market benchmark with utterly no regard to price. Several hedge-fund managers …
A Lot Of Green
From the moment the markets opened yesterday, it was up, up and away with the Dow hitting a new high for 2009. Friday’s unemployment figure of 10.2% contributed in a perverse way to yesterday’s rally supporting the view that with such dire news, interest rates will have to stay low for some time to come, which bodes well for stocks. …
Price Discrepancies
While ETFS have many advantages over mutual funds, they have not been around long enough to address all issues that might affect their NAVs as Seeking Alpha reports in “Bond ETFs Suffer from Pricing Discrepancies:” Exchange traded funds (ETFs) have many of the built-in advantages that mutual funds have, but there are also differences. In my view, the biggest difference …
Sunday Musings: Missing The Point
A few days ago, I posted about Schwab’s venture into “Commission Free ETFs.” While I think that this move is a great step in the right direction, most readers who commented missed my point entirely by being more concerned about venting petty grievances. In case you don’t remember, back in 1992, Schwab was the innovator when they created the mutual …
How To Track Your Sell Stops
A convenient and efficient way to track sell stops has been on many readers’ minds. Tom had this to say: How can I get a fund or ETF price automatically downloaded into my personal investment spreadsheet? Setting sell stops based on new highs, etc. requires finding the price and manually entering it in the spreadsheet everyday. When I don”t look …