The Wall Street Journal posted an article about ETFs which made a point that I have been making here and at the Street.com for years which is about the need to look under the hood of any ETFs you study or buy to see what the largest holdings are and de...
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First up is that discount brokerage Charles Schwab, where we custody client assets, is making meaningful progress with regard to accessing foreign stocks. Very soon, possibly this month, Schwab will make foreign ordinary shares available through the we...
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A thought occurred to me the other day as I was looking at the filings page on the IndexUniverse weekly ETF Watch. It might be interesting to create a portfolio from some of the funds that are in registration. To be clear these funds do no exist (yet) ...
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The title for this post comes from a couple of articles from the other day. One was from The Housing Time Bomb blog (great name) and the other from The Business Insider.First from Housing Time Bomb, Jeff (the blogger in question) asks the very reasonab...
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At the start of the show Power Lunch yesterday Sue Herrera rhetorically asked "are we lost" as a tease for a discussion to be had later in the show (that I missed). She also noted something along the lines of many headlines expressing concern that we c...
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Filed under: International Markets, China, Options, Technical Analysis, Economic DataEconomic data out of China this week is suggesting a slower pace of growth for the emerging economy, and one options player is trying to capitalize on anticipated weak...
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Special nerd fight on the Clackamas River edition.The nerd fight in question (just teasing a little) is the apparent different conclusions that have been drawn about the proposed First Trust Smart Phone ETF (proposed ticker FONE I believe) by Index Uni...
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You may have heard about the recently launched Market Vectors Emerging Market Bond ETF (EMLC). I wrote an article about it for theStreet that you can read here. Generally speaking it is the first such ETF to own bonds denominated in local currency as o...
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Two items today from yesterday's FT Alphaville.One was part of an ongoing dialogue about correlation having increased lately and the extent to which high frequency trading (HFT) and the popularity of ETFs might be contributing to the problem. Concerns ...
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On Monday the S&P 500 closed above it's 200 DMA so I was prepared to sell our current inverse ETF position which is the ProShares Ultra Short Dow 30 (DXD) on Tuesday near the close. Typically I wait for a second straight day, which would have been ...
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