2 Fund ETF Trading System
This is our system that trades Exchange Traded funds. We hold 2 ETF positions from a list of about 50 ETFs that are chosen so we don’t have much duplication. We hold these funds for about 30 days, since this system trades using the same ranking approach as our Fidelity Select system. At times the system will go to cash ( a money market fund FDRXX), and those positions will not necessarily be held for 31 days.
This ETF trading system has been followed in real time since August 2009.
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The database date for this run is 04/30/10 ===================================================== ExprFamilyTrade history of ETF_2_Fund_System 04/30/10 ===================================================== Family = ETF_2_Fund_System MMarket = FDRXX Signal = FnuFile = fetf2 StartDate = 01/01/02 StopDate = 04/30/10 Positions = 2 RelativeRankSell = 0 BuyMinRank = 2 HoldMaxRank = 7 HoldMinDays = 30 PenaltyDays = 1 Penalty = 0.75% Buy Sell Hold Last Best Pcnt Pos Next Pos Fund Date Date Days Rank Rank Gain Value Trade --- ----- -------- -------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----- ----- 2 FDRXX 07/07/08 08/06/08 30 10 1 0.2 11076 1 BBH 06/03/08 08/29/08 87 20 1 19.7 13368 2 IBB 08/06/08 09/05/08 30 17 1 -7.0 10304 2 FDRXX 09/05/08 09/09/08 4 5 2 0.0 10307 2 RKH 09/09/08 10/21/08 42 9 1 -13.8 8880 2 FDRXX 10/21/08 12/09/08 49 6 1 0.3 8911 1 FDRXX 08/29/08 12/17/08 110 15 1 0.8 13469 2 XLY 12/09/08 01/08/09 30 15 1 4.1 9276 1 EWP 12/17/08 01/16/09 30 45 1 -13.6 11632 2 IGN 01/08/09 02/09/09 32 16 1 -2.1 9083 2 EWZ 02/09/09 03/12/09 31 8 1 -7.9 8366 1 FDRXX 01/16/09 03/13/09 56 8 1 0.2 11653 1 BDH 03/13/09 04/14/09 32 24 1 14.5 13341 2 EWT 03/12/09 04/20/09 39 26 1 14.3 9565 1 EWW 04/14/09 05/14/09 30 14 1 8.6 14482 2 IGN 04/20/09 05/20/09 30 23 1 12.9 10803 1 EWS 05/14/09 06/15/09 32 14 1 7.5 15564 2 EWW 05/20/09 06/19/09 30 17 2 -1.9 10598 1 XLU 06/15/09 07/16/09 31 11 1 3.1 16052 2 BBH 06/19/09 07/23/09 34 22 1 6.2 11256 1 SMH 07/16/09 08/17/09 32 39 1 2.8 16494 2 XLK 07/23/09 08/24/09 32 27 2 1.3 11404 1 EWO 08/17/09 09/17/09 31 14 1 19.9 19781 2 EWK 08/24/09 09/23/09 30 14 1 8.3 12349 1 IWS 09/17/09 10/19/09 32 27 1 2.1 20200 2 IGN 09/23/09 10/23/09 30 43 1 -2.7 12014 1 EWZ 10/19/09 11/18/09 30 12 1 0.3 20267 2 IYE 10/23/09 11/23/09 31 50 1 -1.7 11807 2 EWS 11/23/09 12/23/09 30 27 2 -0.7 11723 1 PPH 11/18/09 12/24/09 36 16 1 3.9 21054 2 IYZ 12/23/09 01/22/10 30 48 1 -7.0 10907 1 IJT 12/24/09 01/25/10 32 11 2 -2.9 20441 1 FDRXX 01/25/10 01/28/10 3 3 2 0.0 20441 2 FDRXX 01/22/10 02/22/10 31 17 1 0.0 10908 1 BBH 01/28/10 03/01/10 32 18 1 1.4 20726 2 IGN 02/22/10 03/24/10 30 23 2 5.0 11455 1 XLY 03/01/10 04/07/10 37 8 1 7.9 22374 2 IBB 03/24/10 04/23/10 30 51 1 -1.7 11265 1 ICF 04/07/10 Holding 23 1 1 4.6 23404 2 XLY 04/23/10 Holding 7 5 1 -2.4 10997 LastValue 34401, AnnRet 16.0%, Mdd 30.8% on 03/02/09 If a trade is called for it is indicated in the Next Trade column -^-
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If a fund symbol is in that column then the action to be taken is to sell the current mutual fund in the left column tomorrow and to buy the fund in the Next Trade column. If the fund indicated is FDRXX then simply switch to a money market fund.
The system holds 2 positions at a time, each of which is approximately 50% of the total invested. The mutual fund held for each position is indicated by the number in the leftmost Pos column, 1 for the first, 2 for the second.
What if I miss a Exchange Traded Fund System Trade?
Occasionally you will miss a trade. If that happens, don’t panic. Since there are no penalties trading ETF’s if you only missed it a day or so then you are probably OK making the trade. If not then sell the old holding and go to cash for that position until the next signal.