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Monday morning's gap up in the S&P and Nasdaq faded shortly after the market opened, into the 10:00 AM reversal period. This enabled yesterday's short fade plays on DIA and PPH to work out great, as well as our shorts from over the weekend. Yesterday morning was a great example of how you can...

Please add XLK to the list of ETFs that I posted on page 3 of this thread. That one qualifies because it trades an average daily volume of 867,000 shares, but I failed to include it on the list.

I've just completed my article on getting efficient order executions. This is the first of three parts, so I will only be posting the first part here. Hope this is helpful to you: The most important thing I have learned for getting good ETF executions is to always follow each ETF's...

The reason everyone does not make money usually comes down to discipline. Many traders have a trading methodology that could be profiable a majority of the time, but lack the discipline to rigidly stick to it. Not to mention the fact that the market is dynamic and a good system needs to take...

Ed, Basket trading is what I used to exclusively do before ETFs hit the scene. I have since moved away from doing that and gotten into trading the ETF HOLDR instead because it is much easier to manage just one position than a whole basket of them. However, the way Fidelity is doing it...

I totally agree with you! SMH is one of my favorite ETFs to trade. It's great for days when you know the SOX is moving, but are not sure of which one to be in. It reduces your overall risk and trends better than an individual stock. I also like trading BBH and OIH. Traded SWH short on...

Ubiquity, While I can't speak for anyone else, I personally prefer trading ETFs over futures because I have more options with the quantity of trading vehicles available. There are many days when the S&P and Nasdaq indexes are choppy and in a tight trading range. However, there are often a...

Trader 963, I guess I will take that age comment as a compliment! I'm actually knocking on 30, but just have a baby face I guess. :D I will post the ETF order routing article tomorrow. . still working on it.

Hi, It's great to hear that you are interested in sector/industry trading because that is exclusively what I do as well. I recommend you start by going to CBS Marketwatch (www.marketwatch.com) and clicking on Market Data, and then clicking on Industry Analyzer. That will enable you to see...

Limitdown, While I am not sure if I agree that QQQ and SPY don't move in whipsaws, I do agree that they are great vehicles for swing trading. In fact, swing trading the ETFs is exclusively what we do because they are ideal for that. The ETFs I like best for daytrading are QQQ, SPY, DIA...

Thanks for the interesting info. about the Toronoto Stock Exchange. By "pioneer," I did not mean that AMEX had the first ETF, but meant they were at the forefront of bringing them into wide public exposure. They were also the first to bring ETFs to the domestic (US) market.

Good to see you around here! Glad to see Reality Trader is rocking for you. Just swing-trading the ETFs here.

I am a friend of Tony's and spend time with him at every trading expo. While I do not trade his exact style, I can tell you that he is a good person who truly likes to help people (and I have no motive for saying this). Just my 2 cents. . .

If I have a good setup that I am waiting for but don't want to stare at the screen all day, I set price alarms on RealTick and go about my business catching up on e-mail, studying charts, whatever. I've found that alarms are great because they help reinforce my discipline not to trade when...

Yes, there are a lot of great reasons to trade the e-mini and many of my friends do that too. I personally prefer the ETFs because a majority of my trades are swing trades (not scalps) and I also like the diversity afforded by being able to trade various market sectors. To each his own I...

Not sure about which ETFs trade good options. I don't really follow the options too much. I will check around with some of my friends and let you know if I discover anything. Perhaps someone else here can help with that?

Bilbo, Here is the complete, inclusive list of all domestic ETFs and HOLDRs that trade an average of at least 300k shares per day as of August 2002 (in no particular order): QQQ SPY DIA BBH OIH PPH RTH SMH SWH IWM EWJ IBB EWZ IWN EFA IVV IWD IWV MDY XLF XLB This list...

Richk, That's great to hear that you are daytrading the Qs profitably. I have a friend who does exclusively the same thing. Although I do trade the Qs frequently, I also like trading the sector HOLDRs and ETFs because they offer a lot of different opportunities depending on which sector(s)...

Hi everyone, It's great to see the interest in trading ETFs. The longer I trade them, the more convinced I am that I will never go back to individual equities. I find my stress level is much lower because I don't have to play games with the specialist or market makers; they simply mirror...