I am really starting to like the Vanguard ETFs, almost as much as I like their mutual funds. They have really low expense ratios, they perform spot-on to the indexes they track, and they track sectors and indexes that I really like. In my rollover IRA, I have invested all in exchange traded [...]

Some of you might track certan ETFs from ProShares, Direxion, and other big ETF families that offer leveraged funds with increased performance. For instance, the FAS fund tracks the financials sector index at three times the normal rate due to leveraging. So, if the financial sector gaines 5% on the day, FAS will [...]

A few weeks ago, I wrote this article about my experiment with some battered market sector exchange traded funds in my rollover IRA.
Current Performance
So far, it has been right on pace with the S&P 500. It dropped about 7% in February, then it rose about 20% in March. They are doing [...]

Back in October, I left my day job to help my wife pursue a career as a physician assistant in childhood neurosurgery. We moved to Orlando, and even though I worked out of my house, I had a specific territory that I covered as a claims adjuster, and I was unable to transfer to [...]

Yahoo Finance posted an article from Investor’s Business Daily about investors putting more money into S&P 500 index exchange-traded funds.
This is a good sign, because investors are starting to realize that now is the time to buy domestic stocks. The quasi-recession will be short-lived, and buying domestic stocks at a discount [...]