FYI: Leveraged Etf’s Born Losers, Or Just Misunderstood Pt
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Gold’s price action in the past 5 months has frustrated many traders. Especially those who have difficulty making money during consolidation periods which are in. The past couple months are consistently the weaker months for gold prices year after year. That being said August through year end have been consistently strong for trading gold and gold ETF’s.
Chart 1 – Gold Spot Price, you will see that gold found support at the 50 exponential moving average and also found major support at the 200 EMA. August is just around the corner when gold generally picks up steam, which you can see in the chart below in 2007.
Gold at support levels and entering August
Chart 2 – The Collapsing Dollar looks to be struggling at resistance and making a lower high and lower low (bear Trend). If the USD breaks down it should slide to the 67 cent level and send gold soaring for 2-3 months.
US Dollar at resistance making lower highs and lower lows.
Chart 3 – A close up chart of the USD, you can see its currently at the top of its Bollinger Bands and just made a lower low 2 weeks ago. Head and Shoulders anyone….
Weak dollar at top or range with head and shoulders pattern
Chart 4 – GLD Gold ETF is my trading vehicle of choice and is currently at support making higher highs and higher lows (bull trend). While this does not provide a buy signal with my daily trading model, it does provide an excellent trading opportunity for an intraday trade as we should see prices make a move much higher or much lower within the next couple days.
GLD Gold ETF is poised for a move, does not matter which way at this point thought.
Chart 5 – Recent Gold ETF trade. My focus for short term trading is simple. Wait for a breakout which satisfies my trading model, enter the trade and then exit 50% of position on the first sign of weakness. Exit second half on a trend line break. My goal for GLD ETF is 2-5% and we are in trades for 2-10 days unless prices continue to run. I generally have 10-20 trades per year with gold.
My recent Gold ETF trade which profited 3.4% with very little down side risk during a sideways market.
GLD trading for me is the most accurate trading vehicle I have come across. I have been using my proven trading model which avoids the price gaps and keeps risk for each traded under 3%.
Gold ETF funds makes it simple to profit from the markets using a proven trading model for trading long, and short term gold setups.
Reach Chris at: Chris [at] theGoildAndOilGuy [dot] com
This article is intended solely for information purposes. The opinions are those of the author only. Please conduct further research and consult your financial advisor before making any investment/trading decision. No responsibility can be accepted for losses that may result as a consequence of trading on the basis of this analysis.
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The original video of this part (1) was taken down by youtube due to a copyright issue with NBC… which must have been related to the section of video I used showing useless car parking and drivers as a background in parts, just to fill the visual space. Oh well – I just edited out those visuals.
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Tags: Chris Vermeulen, Etf Investing, Gold Chart, gold etf, Gold Etf Investing, Gold Investing, Gold Trading, NYSE:EEM, NYSE:EWY
October 29th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
yep:)
October 29th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
Yes, that is part of it. Corrolation to the spot price depends on the combination of trade in the futures, options, or stock of companies in or related to the commodity. Also depends on whether it is a ETF or an ETN. The UNG is an ETN and it is being discontinued within the next couple days because it has preformed poorly.
October 29th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
You can short the TLT if you want to bet long term interest rates will go up.
Alternatively, you can buy TBT. That is you take a long position on TBT to get the desired effect. TBT is double-short long bond ETF. That is, the return you get on this ETF is the same as that of taking a leveraged short position on long-term bonds.
October 29th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Hey Tiger! Good to hear from you:) You’re right; it seems like things have gotten worse in the last decade or two.
October 30th, 2009 at 12:42 am
SLV and GLD are derivative holders. At the same time they use there cash to short the real prices at the COMEX.
October 30th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
just trade the etfs, if ur gonna hold metals buy them and actually hold them for long term
October 30th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
I don't believe Fidelity operates any ETFs. You can buy and sell ETFs through your Fidelity brokerage/retirement account. iShares is one of the biggest ETF providers.
QQQQ looks very interesting and has returns near or better than Contrafund (FCNTX). FCNTX seems to perform better in bear markets, QQQQ a slight bit better in neutral and bull markets.
October 30th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
It depends.
If you plan to make a one time deposit, ETFs.
If you're making monthly deposits, funds.
If you're somewhere in between, it depends on the commission you'd pay to your broker to buy the ETF.
One warning, not all brokers let you buy ALL funds for free. Check with your broker first.
October 30th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Hi Grace! I agree with you about the current state of bookkeeping. I’ve worked in the finance arena within several manufacturing companies; in my opinion, though there are still safeguards and boundaries governing business behavior, auditing standards have noticeably declined since the early ’90s. Twenty years ago, a leasing scheme like John describes here never would’ve passed an audit by a reputable accounting firm.
October 31st, 2009 at 1:06 am
Your last video; nothing a defibrillator couldnt fix, lol
Still subscribed. Thx
October 31st, 2009 at 6:31 am
LOL! I Saw That last video years ago and stopped watching it as soon as I it began LOL! I watch your channel every morning for breakfast like the paper.
What are your thoughts on Silver so low today. I woke up and it was only $13.18 us dollars. It made me really upset seeing it at $14.06 a few days ago. Just feels like they are minipulating the market so bad to strengthen the appearance of a falling us dollar.
I’m in silver for the long, but it’s very frustrating at times
October 31st, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Those anomalies are bubbles that rise while the books are being cooked…
October 31st, 2009 at 2:04 pm
If you want to short the market, then you need to sell individual stocks or widely traded ETFs like DIA or SPY short. Bear ETFs don't actually work the way they are described. Due to technical difficulties in the structure of the ETFs they don't always exactly mirror the market that are supposed to. In the big market drop a year ago, many bear funds experienced liquidity problems and the price of the ETF went down even though the underlying index was going down. This meant that people who predicted that the market was going down lost a lot of money even though they were right.
Moral of the story: if you want to go short, then go short; don't look for gimmicks.
October 31st, 2009 at 8:17 pm
I use Scottrade and have been very satisfied. They have a good trading platform and customer service. They are cheaper than Etrade.
I'm not familiar with Zecco, other than looking at their website. But based on your question, you won't need much in the way of service. They could be a no cost way to trade ETFs. I have noticed a number of questions about them which can indicate a customer service problem. Look their site over and see what you think.
November 1st, 2009 at 8:34 pm
History establishes a trend and gives cues as to how the market HAD dealt with the company in regard to things that went on. It does not directly bear on the future any more than if the previous coin toss were heads. As in the coin, there is still a 50-50 chance on either heads or tails (although I have had a few land on edge, they eventually fell one way or the other). What the market DID (past tense) does not require the market to do it again.
Still, check for major events and trends. Does your stock tend to go up when the Dow goes up? Or may be it goes the other way (as in folks would rather buy a popular blue chip than buy this company when they are in a buying mood)? Or is there any common correlation (often not)? Is your stock seasonal? My first purchases were for an air conditioning manufacturer, so I bought when it was cheap, Winter, and sold when it was higher, early to mid-Summer. If your company, say, made hot chocolate, it would have a different season than it it, say, sold snow cones. Has your company done a lot of ups and downs but within a fairly steady corridor? Then there are reasons why the market may have established a ceiling and a floor, so ferret out some ideas for those price supports or resistance. Similarly, if you can discern other characteristics that frequently happen, you've just been handed an opportunity to improve your odds–if your coin tosses have never gone more than one side four times in a row, for instance, I would bet for the other side, even if the actual odds for that specific toss were still only 50-50. If your stock tends to peak in January, April, and August, then look at your calendar and time your purchases, or sales, with that in mind, even if you haven't figured out the common causes. History, therefore, gives hints and clues. The market, however, doesn't have to bow to history. In that you are on your own.
Still, there is another important history. It involves comparative advantages. Does your company tend to make more profits than its peers? Does your company tend to make more profits more consistently than its peers? Does your company look like it will continue to perform this way? (If not, then look more closely at its peers) Profitability tends to win out over hope and hype in the long run, so look at its history of doing business, and let the market do whatever it wants.
The first is trading. The latter is investing. What are you really wanting to do?
November 2nd, 2009 at 12:29 am
Another consideration is that ETF's can be bought/sold like stocks. There is no "holding period" as required by many mutual funds that you purchase through a brokerage account or direct from the mutual fund company. So if the ETF sector is heading down (eg. real estate VNQ), you can get out by simply selling your shares.
November 2nd, 2009 at 3:17 am
etfconnect.com lists all by family. best resource available.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:07 am
Why somebody, after all the fraud & scandals wich have come out of the financial sector the last few years, would still put his trust (& money) in paper silver or gold, is completely beyond my comprehension.
They will be the ones hurt the most, when this scheme will also come crashing down.