Category Archives: ETF’s

Which Sector Would You Buy?

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Tom

Which of these sectors would you buy right now? The answer depends on whether you’re a trader or investor, and of course your holding time.

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SLV Tricked Us!

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Tom

$SLV seems to have tricked us after bouncing and closing above the 50 WMA last week.  That's good news and it appears SLV will be gaining steam this week as it rides up trend channel.  If $SLV closes above the … Continue reading →

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Is SLV Tricking Us?

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Tom

$SLV is acting strangely again. A warning flag came up in my model that the trend might be breaking down in this ETF BUT it sure looked that way back in July 2009 as well.  Then it broke below the … Continue reading →

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A Review Of My RFV Trade

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Tom

$RFV was a winner for me. In fact it was my largest winner in the bunch, clocking in over 12% or about +3R.  However, it got taken out via a stop on 1/21/10 as the market looked like it started … Continue reading →

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Making Money In Microcaps

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Tom

I got taken out in FDM yesterday after riding a bit of its trend.  I made money on this one, about 8.5%.  Not too shabby.

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Mr. Market Took Me Out Today

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Tom

And yesterday out of a total of 5 positions.  One position was a good gain (FDM) but the others added up to slight losses; add them all up and I'm down only $5.  I'm not upset, just satisfied my system … Continue reading →

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Current Positions in FDM and GWX

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Tom

I went long these ETF's back on 11/19 (as well as others I will post about).  These holdings are part of the AAII ETF portfolio and I was experimenting with them.  These do not fit my new trend strategy but … Continue reading →

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Real Estate Still Sucking

Posted on April 15, 2009 by Tom

As I wrote in my Feb 2009 post,  “Where’s the Market Bottom,” I believe the real estate and equity markets have more downside coming.  Now someone’s IYR model , is setting up for a possible test of its March lows. … Continue reading →

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Testing Out EWS Model

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Tom

I’ve been working on updating my various stock and forex models, both in Rapidminer and other platforms, and just built a test model for EWS using Stock Neuromaster. It seemed that it had some false signals at the most recent … Continue reading →

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Small Position in EWH

Posted on April 9, 2009 by Tom

I entered a small position in EWH yesterday after my newly updated neural net model said “go short young man.”  So I went short @ $10.95 and currently sit on a small loss.  Based on how the index futures are … Continue reading →

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Currency ETF List

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Tom

Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) come in so many flavors these days that it’s hard to keep track of them all. I really like them because it gives the average investor exposure to different asset classes such as currencies, commodities, and … Continue reading →

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Stock Signals

Posted on February 17, 2008 by Tom

I’m busy going through my list of stocks in my neural net program looking for buy and sell signals. My actual trades in XOM and EWZ have been profitable and I’m looking forward to doing some more trading this week. … Continue reading →

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