Tips For Beginners: Effective ETF Trading System
There are many effective different strategies, methods, and systems when one begins learning and working in ETF trading. Finding the ETF Trading System that will be most effective will be a matter of matching your personal style, your ETF goals, and your skills together and then working through the system to see if it will fit effectively.
Many websites offer books, training, or secrets about an effective system that is guaranteed to work. The really effective websites offer training and books on all of the systems that are available so that you can find the one that works best for you.
When a person is just starting to participate in ETF trading they will be starting out slow. The first couple of years spent in ETF training are the learning curve that most successful traders say is average. This will be an opportunity to make a plan on how to try on different strategies and systems without committing a major amount of resources to any particular one.
There are a few steps that one can take to ensure that they have a safety net when moving through the learning curve. One is to set a stop-loss and stick to it. By setting a stop-loss, a person is not going to lose more than they expect. The ETF moves in fifteen second increments during the trading day. A person can lose a lot of gains in that amount of time if they are using the wrong system or strategy for them.
Another helpful net when beginning will be to set buy and sell points or set take profit prices. This will be a huge help until you have got a good knowledge base of how ETF trading works. Once you know how to do the technical and historical analysis that makes any system and strategy you use work more effectively, you will be able to have less structure in your safety net. But until you feel very comfortable with ETF trading, the stronger your safety net is, the more consistent your gains will be.
Starting to trade in sectors that have clear trends and trend lines to track will be easier than the more complex sectors. Trading in at least two separate sectors is also a good idea. Somewhere in your research of ETF trading systems you will find the actual formula for the system. This formula will show how the system is set up, how it works, and it’s risk. There may be some systems that have a low risk, but I haven’t seen any, so try to stick with systems that have a medium low to medium risk.
Any system that involves trend following will be a great way to learn the structure and inner workings of ETF trading. Using a system such as the ETFA System is a great way to start out. The ETFA System is used for XLE, RTH, SPY (Long only), XLF, and TLT. ETFA stands for Exponential Moving Average. It works based on the fast and slow EMA of sectors.
Tracking a system before using it to trade is a good way to find out how consistent and effective it is. A good rule of thumb to keep in mind is that if a system is great and effective, it can be tracked and followed. There is no way for a trader to keep a system a secret in ETF trading. Look for key clues in advertising. When an individual is “selling” a can’t fail system, every trader knows that there is no “can’t fail” system. If there were ETF trading would not be the fun that it is, and successful trades would not be as exhilarating as they are.
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