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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Effective ETF Trading System Hints For Beginners

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.

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.

There are a few steps that one can take to ensure that they have a safety net when moving through the learning curve. One is to set a stop-loss and stick to it. By setting a stop-loss, a person is not going to lose more than they expect. The ETF moves in fifteen second increments during the trading day. A person can lose a lot of gains in that amount of time if they are using the wrong system or strategy for them.

Another helpful net when beginning will be to set buy and sell points or set take profit prices. This will be a huge help until you have got a good knowledge base of how ETF trading works. Once you know how to do the technical and historical analysis that makes any system and strategy you use work more effectively, you will be able to have less structure in your safety net. But until you feel very comfortable with ETF trading, the stronger your safety net is, the more consistent your gains will be.

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.

When looking at systems, any system that involves following trends is a system worth looking at. Learning to follow and spot trends, patterns, and variables is a great way to gain confidence in ETF trading. A system like the ETFA is one good way to start. The Exponential Moving Average System is a medium low to medium risk system that involves following trends. It is used primarily with TLT, XLE, RTH, XLF, and SPY (long term). Most people run the system on a fifteen day cycle. When the fast EMA and slow EMA cross, you move.

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. - 23211

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