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ETFs (Exchange-traded funds)
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are securities that resemble index funds, but can be bought and sold during the day just like common stocks. These type of securities allow investors a convenient way to purchase a broad basket of securities in a single transaction. ETFs offer the convenience of a stock along with the diversification of a mutual fund. An ETF holds assets such as stocks, commodities, options, bonds.
Leveraged ETFs (Beware of leveraged ETFs)
Options
A financial vehicle that gives the owner the right, but not the obligation, to buy (for a call option) or sell (for a put option) a specific amount of a given stock, commodity, currency, index, or debt, at a specified price (the strike price) during a specified period of time.
Call options give the option to buy at certain price, so the buyer would want the stock to go up.
Put options give the option to sell at a certain price, so the buyer would want the stock to go down
Investment sites
Motley Fool. This site is not for fools. Instead, it is for everybody who stands apart from Wall Street's so-called wise mean: full commission brokers, market prognosticators and gurus.
StockCharts. Who thought making great looking financial charts could be so easy?. Very helpful for technical analysis.
Investor's Business Daily With very good Stocks on the Move daily updates and powerful investment strategies.
Where the money goes?
Largest domestic equity market capitalizations at the end of 2009 and 2008
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|
Exchange |
USD bn |
USD bn |
% change |
% change |
|
end-2009 |
end-2008 |
in USD |
in local currency |
||
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1 |
11 838 |
9 209 |
28.5% |
28.5% |
|
|
2 |
3 306 |
3 116 |
6.1% |
8.6% |
|
|
3 |
3 239 |
2 249 |
44.0% |
44.0% |
|
|
4 |
2 869 |
2 102 |
36.5% |
32.6% |
|
|
5 |
2 796 |
1 868 |
49.7% |
34.4% |
|
|
6 |
2 705 |
1 425 |
89.8% |
89.9% |
|
|
7 |
2 305 |
1 329 |
73.5% |
73.6% |
|
|
8 |
1 608 |
1 033 |
55.6% |
34.2% |
|
|
9 |
1 337 |
592 |
125.9% |
69.7% |
|
|
10 |
1 306 |
647 |
101.9% |
93.3% |
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