Posted by 3 November 2005

Random Roger on Country Specific ETFs

Roger was nice enough to chime in on the question about judging the performance of country-specific ETFs yesterday. Today’s he’s expanded on his answer over on his own weblog. Bottom line (I think) is that you need to know what kind of companies make up the ETF so you know how to judge its performance.

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Posted by 2 November 2005

Gauging Performance of ETFs / iShares

I was asked the following: I was wondering how do you judge how well iShares are doing? I was watching EWL, Swiss Ishares and it broke out today. However, since it does not belong to any sector/industry and it is from a different country, thus how do we go about looking at it? Random “ETF” [...]

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Posted by 18 September 2005

Swapping EWZ for BZF

Here’s a move I’m planning on making in my IRA beginning tomorrow. I bought EWZ, the Brazil iShares/ETF, back in October of 2004. It’s up just over 63% since my purchase. (Note that UBB, a Brazilian bank, is up about 87% from when I said it was in a good buying position on October 18th. [...]

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Posted by 1 December 2004

Gold ETF could Lead To to ETFs for Other Commodities

I just heard about the potential for other commodity ETFs (besides gold) on Kudlow & Cramer last night. Here’s an article that says “currencies and precious metals ETFs likely.” It sounds like a great idea to me. Especially since I’m itching to read Jim Rogers’ new book “Hot Commodities : How Anyone Can Invest Profitably [...]

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Posted by 1 October 2003

NASDAQ ETF, ONEQ, Begins Trading

In case the QQQs don’t provide enough fun for you, now there’s an ETF to track the entire NASDAQ Composite Index. (but it actually only tracks a sample of all the Naz stocks) It’s ticker symbol is ONEQ. I just want to know if it can be shorted on downticks like the QQQ can.

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