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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Tips For Beginners: Effective ETF Trading System

By Patrick Deaton

Your personal style, goals, and skills are going to help you to find the ETF trading system that will be best for you. The system that works for one person will not work for everyone. That is why you will find hundreds of strategies, methods, and systems on the Internet. During the learning curve you will have the opportunity to try on different strategies and systems and find the one that is most effective for you and fits you best. That will be the most effective ETF trading system.

The challenge of finding the best trading system is in researching and learning how to identify systems that are worth trying. There are many websites that offer training and books about an effective system that will work. However, in reality the best websites will offer training, books, information, forums, and chat groups on all the strategies, methods, and systems. You will be able to learn from successful traders who have already tried various systems and can tell you why they were not effective.

When a person is just starting to participate in ETF trading they will be starting out slow. The first couple of years spent in ETF training are the learning curve that most successful traders say is average. This will be an opportunity to make a plan on how to try on different strategies and systems without committing a major amount of resources to any particular one.

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.

Starting to trade in sectors that have clear trends and trend lines to track will be easier than the more complex sectors. Trading in at least two separate sectors is also a good idea. Somewhere in your research of ETF trading systems you will find the actual formula for the system. This formula will show how the system is set up, how it works, and it's risk. There may be some systems that have a low risk, but I haven't seen any, so try to stick with systems that have a medium low to medium risk.

Any system that involves trend following will be a great way to learn the structure and inner workings of ETF trading. Using a system such as the ETFA System is a great way to start out. The ETFA System is used for XLE, RTH, SPY (Long only), XLF, and TLT. ETFA stands for Exponential Moving Average. It works based on the fast and slow EMA of sectors.

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. - 23212

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