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Monday, January 4, 2010

Beginners Look At ETF Trend Trading

By Patrick Deaton

There will be a lot of different types of trading discussed when a person enters ETF. One of the often discussed types of trading is ETF Trend Trading. If you have taken a course or read about ETF trading, you already know that to be successful you need to do a technical analysis of a sector. This and other historical information helps you to spot patterns and trends in the sector in which you are trading.

When people begin to look at ETF trading they usually will read books, take some courses, and get information from successful traders. In all of this information there will be one theme that will make a trader successful. That is to do a technical analysis and historic data collection on the sector that is going to be traded. You do this to spot trends and patterns. When a trend starts, you jump in. When the trend reverses, you get out.

The technical definition of ETF Trend Trading is to do an analysis of a sector, get in when the trend starts to move and get out when it reverses. If you've been following the instructions of your training, you are already trend trading. The people who do a technical analysis of a sector that covers a three to five year period are getting only a snapshot of the trends and patterns within a sector and will have less success with proactively capturing gains when there is a trend.

It is very easy for a person to get caught up in the analytics of sectors when they are trying to make the most favorable trading decisions. In order to keep from being bogged down in the details and lose valuable time trading, it is a good idea to decide what type of ETF trend trading you are going to do as far as technical analysis and stick with it.

Short term trends are usually historical data for a sector covering one to three years. A technical analysis using historical data of one to three years is going to show only trends that occur in that time frame. When a person is going to use short term trends as their primary indicator, they will need to move very quickly in creating a long position when the trend rising or short when the trend is dropping and get out quickly when there is a blip on the screen. Employing only short term trending may prevent a person from seeing trends that occur within a longer time period.

Long term trends cover a sector for a ten to thirty year period. Within that chart will be intermediate term trends that occur on a regular basis. Some sectors, especially financial products have more long term and intermediate trends than short-term trends in the market. By identifying the intermediate trends and using them in combination with short term trends a person has opened a whole new level of opportunities for making strategic trades and gains in their trading efforts.

Successful traders do not act without some background information on the sector in which they are trading. When a person hops in and out of trades without doing the research that is required to be effective, they may have some wins. But, they will have more lost opportunities than a person who knows when a trend is going to reverse and can take proactive steps before it starts to free-fall.

When a person has a long term ETF, they are most interested in long-term trends. A sector that is in a rising trend for ten years, then reverses course rapidly can catch a person unaware if they have not done the technical analysis to prepare for that reverse. - 23162

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