Thread: Swing trading ETF's with a brokerage account.

It's great that you opened this thread. we sure will learn a lot.
Where to look for long or short signals? I remember you said somewhere that you follow Robo's? I could not find it.

Thanks

In the Long Run, We're All Dead

Posted Mar 26, 2008 12:22pm EDT by Aaron Task in Investing Related: ^SPX, ^DJI, SPY, TLT

When the market is as wild as it's been of late, it's easy to get sucked into the daily drama. But it's always important to keep the long-term view in focus.
And the long-term reality is this: The U.S. stock market has been essentially flat for the past nine years and has wildly underperformed other assets, including Treasuries, as detailed by The Wall Street Journal.
Key takeaways from this grisly track record:

• Owning stocks, even for a long period, is not a guarantee of success as many came to believe in the 1990s. There also the debate over buy and hold vs. market timing to consider.
• Having a diversified portfolio of assets -- not just diversity among your equity portfolio -- is critical to long-term investing success, if not survival.
• The current morass does help set up the next bull market cycle, and U.S. stocks are cheap relative to Treasuries, real estate, and international markets. That may help in the short term, but the stock market has a history of moving in 17-year cycles, which means we may be only about halfway through the current long-term slump.

Originally Posted by Show-me

Roth IRA's are great.

Use limit orders ALWAYS! Use stops in case you get killed on the drive to work and your trade goes to crap. This does nothing for you, cuz your dead, but protects your families inheritance so they can bury you in a nice box.

What would you set as a limit sell order? Still at 5%?

TIA

List of all (??) ETFs.
http://www.etfconnect.com/select/FindAFund.aspx


Show-me, any thoughts on those ETF with really high yield? (>5%)?

Thanks,

Originally Posted by RPM

List of all (??) ETFs.
http://www.etfconnect.com/select/FindAFund.aspx


Show-me, any thoughts on those ETF with really high yield? (>5%)?

Thanks,

Not really, I stick to my core etf's. SDS and SSO. I use a very loose stop range between 5% and 10%.

Quotes for Long 1x 2x, Short 1x 2x for NASDAQ, S&P500, MID CAP 400, and DOW:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/cq?d=v1&s...ia,ddm,dog,dxd