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Yes. Assuming a majority equity/ minority cash, how much of the equity portion can you dedicate to the s&p before you start thinking you should put the rest of the equity portion into other etfs.

Since you do so much trading, some related things to think about: Try out the interface to see if it looks nice and you like the features. Find out about quality of order execution. Experienced traders here talk about obscure things like how many ticks it takes before an order gets completed...

Hello, I'm getting into ETFs. I keep buying the S&P 500 ETF while I figure out the other ones. So now I have about 10% of my total portfolio in the S&P 500. I know standard asset allocation often says 60% stocks, 40% bonds until you get closer to retirement. Is it OK to have 15% or even 20%...

Hello, I'm learning about ETFs. They seem like a great way to get efficient diversification. I know the SPY and the Russell 2000. The other ones I'm just getting to know. It pretty much consists of "wow, I'd like to buy that one, and that one, and that one...". Especially those iShares...

That is an interesting perspective. I get what you are saying, but I don't know why ugly is so often equated with advanced. The IB stuff looks like Java Swing code from 1997. I don't think the ugliness can be configured away. The Bloomberg terminal is advanced, but it is not ugly. I'd love...

Maybe buy some of XLF, KBE and KRE!

Thanks. That is an important point.

Hello, I saw this on investopedia: "Ultra Dow30 is a leveraged ETF that seeks to replicate two times the daily performance of the DJIA. The fund invests in a number of securities to achieve its objective. Investments include equity securities from the index, derivatives including SWAP...

$100 is a low amount. Even with a low-fee provider of $2, that is 2 percent of your money going to fees. That is a serious drag on performance. The lowest cost you could probably do is with Interactive Brokers. That would probably cost you $1 at a time. ETFs have an advantage that you can...

CM Hello, Thank you for your response. Why should a person first learn futures? I thought they were more exotic and had to do with advanced topics like international currency and commodities. I thought I was starting simple with options on stocks.

Thank you for your reply. I'm new at ETFs, so I wasn't sure if it was a strange one or a mainstream one. The SPY is easy to understand because it is the S&P 500. This one seemed to be something that was put together as a kind of giant shopping list. It looked reasonable to me. But when it...

Hello. Thank you for your response. What is a "purge play"? The midsize bank one sounds cool. They are supposed to benefit from the new tax rates (assuming these are USA midsize banks). I'll have to look into that.

Hello, Does anybody have an opinion on the XLF financial etf? I looked at the holdings. I thought it made sense. The big giant US companies made up about 52% of the fund. Then there were a bunch of mid-size financial companies that made up maybe 30%. Then the remainder was scattered across...

It depends on how technical you are. I've seen trading setups where people have six monitors all at once. Maybe you can do your research at home, then bring the tablet around to do the buy/sell of your research. If you are looking to complete with second-by-second day traders with six...

I just thought of something funny: foreign depends on what country you live in. So you could be looking for a "foreign" fund, and it would be someone else's "domestic" fund. Just a quirky detail. Not quite Einstein's relativity theory, but funny away.

Try different things. Two things you could try are: 1) go without coffee/tea for a few weeks 2) don't solve puzzle things late at night. they can keep your mind awake. do mentally easy things toward the end of the night.

I'm not a doctor, but here's my take on things. I find excess sugar consumption is the key factor to avoid. The blood is amazingly sensitive to sugar. Too much, and your body will store it as fat. It does so as a defense response. I don't know why the blood is so paranoid about excess...

Hello, Sometimes I see a call on a stock where the at-money and out-of-money strikes both make sense. I could see myself buying both. That way if the stock goes up a little, you make some money on the at-money call. And if it goes up a lot, then the out-of-money call kicks in and you make...

Thanks, Robert. What does "trading through" the NBBO mean? Do you mean they are not allowed to offer NBBO prices, or do you mean they cannot offer prices worse than NBBO? I got this from investopedia: "The National Best Bid and Offer is the lowest available ask price and the highest available...

Hello, I created post seeing what people think of Ally Invest. I found a comment so interesting that I though it warranted its own post: "... OANDA had better spreads than ALLY Invest, whose spreads were often RIDICULOUS!" I find this amazing. Is it true that, for example, something like...