Fundztrader ETF Trading System


Our newest system trades Exchange Traded Funds (ETF).
There are several advantages to using ETF's for a trading system:


  • Unlike ordinary mutual funds, there are no limits on how often ETF's can be traded. It's not uncommon for even the best mutual funds today to charge a fee if the fund is not held 90 to 180 days, which severely limits your investment flexibility. ETFs can be traded just like stocks

  • These are diversified within the sector or country, so the risk is reduced, and the persistence of ETF sector trends is consistent enough to trade.

  • There are literally over 100 ETF's, with the number growing daily. There is an ETF fund is available for almost any market sector, and dozens of countries, so if there is market strength anywhere at a given time, there's a good chance you can capture it using Exchange Traded Funds. There are even ETF's being introduced that allow you to take a long position in a bear fund. These exchange traded funds are backed by large financial institutions like Vanguard, Barclays iShares, PowerShares, and the S&P HLDRs, so liquidity and stability are not a concern.

  • You can trade Exchange Traded Funds with about any discount broker, even in many Individual Retirement Accounts (IRA), and many can be traded in odd lots so the minimum amount to invest can be just a few thousand dollars.

Performance of the FundzTrader ETF Trading System:

Funds for this portfolio are selected using a proprietary metric that captures both fund momentum and volatility. They are then held for about 60 days. This system has been backtested since 2000, and tracked real time starting in August of 2006. The fund selection approach is similar to that used to select the best Fidelity funds in our Fidelity Mutual Fund system.

These systems have been optimized to reduce volatility and drawdowns. You can see that in periods of strong market advances the system can under perform the market, but in down years it should outperform the market. We trade every 60 days as that seems to be long enough for trends to materialize, but gets us out of underperforming sectors before a lot of damage is done.

We have selected a family of about 50 exchange traded funds that have at least 3 years of trading history, and good daily volume so that liquidity should not be a problem. There are several types of exchange traded funds, often referred to as iShares, Powershares, HLDRs, or simply ETF's.

We have chosen to use funds that trade like the Fidelity family of funds we have used successfully for years (our Fidelity Select Funds system has been trading in real time since 2002). These funds tend to be somewhat more narrow in focus, specializing in specific industries or countries. These funds generally trend better and give a better chance for a profitable move that we can capture. Generally we will not be investing in the broader market indices, like the QQQQ or IWM.



So, does buying and holding index funds really give you what you are looking for? Or would you rather have your money working harder for you? Just look at the difference!


Year
2002
2003
 2004
 2005
Ann Return
MDD
Fundztrader
ETF System
 -3.9%
59.9%
 27.1%  11.5%   21.5%
-33.9%
Nasdaq
(QQQQ)
-37.4%
49.7%
 10.5%  1.6%    1.3%
-34.0%
S&P 500
(VFINX)
-22.2%
28.5%
 10.7%  4.8%    3.8%
-33.8%

The MDD stand for Maximum Drawdown.
Results before 2006 are backtested.
Current performance updates can be seen on the performance page.

The Fundztrader ETF system gets good returns when the market is up, and moves to defensive issues during periods of extreme market weakness.

Make your money start working harder for you.  To see the current trades and the recent history of the system, just create a user account and login.  All we ask for is a name and an active email address. After signing up you'll be asked to confirm your email address, (this helps control spam for everyone.
Go here now and create a user account to see our model portfolios. Start following one or all of them and make your money start working for you!

Click here to create a FREE user account now!


When you sign up, you get web access to:

  1. ETF System Trades
  2. ETF Fund Rankings (Pick your own trades)
  3. Fidelity Equity Fund System Trades
  4. Fidelity Select Fund System Trades
  5. Fidelity Seasonal System Trades
  6. Fidelity Select Fund rankings (You can time your own trades)
  7. Fidelity Equity Fund rankings (You can use these to trade the funds available in your account)

Important note: As trading systems become popular, they start to lose their edge as more people trade them. So to guard against that, we are going to limit these free systems to the first 1000 users that sign up. We trade these ETFs ourselves, so we want them to continue working. Too many people trading them will break them, so we really are going to limit the number of users. Sign up today before we close them down!

Signing up is simple. Just HERE, fill out the form with your name and email information, pick a user name and password, and you're done. We will email you more information on using the system, and it really is free.

If you don't want to try our system for some reason, please do yourself a favor and get off the buy and hold treadmill. Look at the record over the last seven years: The S&P 500 has been treading water and the Nasdaq has been taking on water. Find a system you can trade with a good track record, and get to work securing your future. If it's not one of ours, find another system that works for you!


Not Ready to sign up yet? Want to know more?


Here’s what we have done. We've put together a FREE report on the Success Investing in Mutual Funds. There's no obligation, all you have to do is give us your name and email address. You don't have to buy anything, but we think you will find the information in this course to be not only a refreshing change of pace from the normal advice you see, but effective as well. There's no obligation to buy anything. But you will learn how to beat the markets, and do it trading just a few times a year.

Why should you bother to look? Because using the approaches in this report, over the first 4 years we published our Fidelity Select system

The S&P 500 was up less than 3 % per year

Our system was up 16% a year


You can get that kind of advantage too! To start on the path to building real wealth with mutual funds and ETF's, simply put your name and email address in the form below.


By the way, we hate spam too. We promise we won't rent, sell, or trade your email address when you sign up. And if you change your mind you can easily remove your email address from our database.






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