“Do not hesitate to buy this book, it will make you money!” --Ike Iossif, President/Chief Investment Officer, Aegean Capital Group, Inc. ETFs offer exceptionally low expenses, outstanding performance, and unparalleled transparency. But, the number and variety of choices can be overwhelming. Now, one of the field's leading experts cuts through the ETF hype, offering a start-to-finish plan for choosing the right ETFs and using them to beat the market, year after year. Dr. Marvin Appel explains exactly how ETFs work, what they can and cannot do, and why they’re not all equally attractive. Then, drawing on objective data and proven, back-tested strategies, he shows you how you can quickly move into the right ETFs at the right time, consistently staying on the winning side of major market trends. Appel illuminates every facet of ETF investing: quantifying potential risk and reward, using ETFs to improve diversification, implementing simple ”active strategies,” deciding when to move into cash, and more. He also presents a full chapter on international ETF investing, as well as a discussion on how ETF investing can reduce your taxes. From start to finish, this book candidly assesses risks, costs, and rewards, helping you become an informed ETF consumer and a powerfully effective ETF investor. <ul>
<li> Use ETFs to invest like the big players </li>
<li> Drive down costs and fully leverage diversification, the only “free lunch” on Wall Street </li>
<li> Learn what your investment advisors won’t tell you </li>
<li> The objective truth about ETF costs, risks, and opportunities </li>
<li> Build your “one-decision” portfolio </li>
<li> Profitable investing has never been this easy </li>
<li> Drive even greater profits with proven “active” strategies </li>
<li> Simple asset allocation strategies you can implement in just minutes </li>
<li> Choose ETFs that match your investment style </li>
<li> Build a profitable portfolio you’re comfortable with</li>
</ul> “Today, exchange-traded funds are the most innovative and rapidly growing investment vehicles. Marvin Appel’s new book provides, in a highly readable framework, a wealth of information on what they are and–more importantly–how private and professional investors can use them to build wealth through a simple and easy-to-implement investment program.” –C. Michael Carty, Principal and Chief Investment Officer, New Millennium Advisors, LLC “In the ever-expanding complex world of ETFs, Marvin Appel has cut through all the fluff and created a one-stop guide to not only using them, but using them profitably. The sections on diversification and the use of relative strength in comparing asset classes are invaluable. Individual investors and financial advisors alike will get a significant return on investment by spending time with this book.” –Bob Kargenian, CMT, President/Principal, TABR Capital Management, LLC The first step-by-step investment program built around low-cost, top-performance ETFs! Back-tested, verifiable strategies from one of the world’s leading ETF experts! All you need is a discount brokerage account, a few minutes on the Internet each month, and this book! ETFs give investors the best of all worlds: instant diversification, unprecedented flexibility for profiting from market shifts, and incredibly low costs. Now, there’s a step-by-step, plain-English guide to profiting from ETFs from one of the world’s leading experts. Chapter 1 Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs): Now Individuals Can Invest Like the Big Players Chapter 2 The Multifaceted Stock Market: A Guide to Different Investment Styles Chapter 3 A One-Step Strategy for Selecting Superior Investments: Indexing Chapter 4 Investment Risk: A Visit to the Dark Side Chapter 5 How Well Are Your Investments Really Doing? Risk-Adjusted Performance Chapter 6 Diversification: The Only Free Lunch on Wall Street Chapter 7 The One-Decision Portfolio Chapter 8 When to Live Large: An Asset Allocation Model for Small- Versus Large-Cap ETFs Chapter 9 Boring Bargains or Hot Prospects? Choosing Between Growth and Value ETFs Chapter 10 When Is It Safe to Drink the Water? International Investing Chapter 11 What Bonds Can Tell You About Stocks: How to Use Interest Rates Chapter 12 It’s a Jungle Out There: Selecting from Among Different ETFs with Similar Investment Objectives Chapter 13 The Ultimate ETF Investment Program in Just 30 Minutes Per Month Appendix Internet Resources for ETF Investors Index

Investing With Exchange Traded Funds Made Easy: Higher Returns With Lower Costs-do It Yourself Strategies Without Paying Fund Managers

Business & Money

Appel, Marvin

Economics

Ft Pr

“Possessing a rare skill set amongst professional investors and authors, Dr. Appel has successfully managed to provide readers with the perfect mix of up-to-date details on the various types and asset classes of ETFs, crucial, tried, and true concepts of risk management, and just the right mix of backing historical data to pull it all together–all in a “user-friendly” package. Upon conclusion of this book, readers will have experienced a paradigm shift in the thought process of their own current investment strategies. Taking it to the next level and actually implementing the concepts will automatically cause readers to experience a higher level of profitability and consistency; one they might never have thought possible from the utilization of concepts in just one small book.” —Deron Wagner, Founder and Portfolio Manager, MorpheusTrading.com, author, Trading ETFs: Gaining An Edge With Technical Analysis “Today, exchange-traded funds are the most innovative and rapidly growing investment vehicles. Marvin Appel’s new book provides, in a highly readable framework, a wealth of information on what they are and–more importantly–how private and professional investors can use them to build wealth through a simple and easy-to-implement investment program” —C. Michael Carty, Principal and Chief Investment Officer, New Millennium Advisors, LLC “In the ever-expanding complex world of ETFs, Marvin Appel has cut through all the fluff and created a one-stop guide to not only using them, but using them profitably. The sections on diversification and the use of relative strength in comparing asset classes are invaluable. Individual investors and financial advisors alike will get a significant return on investment by spending time with this book” –Bob Kargenian, CMT, President/Principal, TABR Capital Management, LLC ETFs offer exceptionally low expenses, outstanding performance, and unparalleled transparency. With more than 200 new ETFs added in just the last year, for typical investors, the choices are simply overwhelming. In this fully updated guidebook, renowned ETF expert Dr. Marvin Appel cuts through the ETF marketing hype, offering a start-to-finish plan for choosing the right ETFs–today, and for years to come. Appel reveals what ETFs can and can’t do, explains why they’re not all equally attractive, and shows exactly how to use them to beat the market. Drawing on objective data and proven, backtested strategies, Appel shows how to quickly move into the right ETFs at the right time, consistently staying on the winning side of major market trends. Appel starts by explaining how ETFs work, then illuminates every facet of ETF investing: quantifying risk and reward; increasing investment income; deciding when to move into cash; and much more. This book includes new chapters on commodity ETFs, using ETFs for investment income and all new coverage of emerging market ETFs. Appel also provides a clear assessment of tax-oriented ETF investing. From start to finish, this book candidly assesses risks, costs, and rewards–helping you become an informed ETF consumer, and an exceptionally effective ETF investor. <ul>
<li> Discover what today’s newest ETFs can do for you Get the real deal on commodity ETFs, emerging market ETFs, and more </li> <li> Use ETFs to invest like the big players Drive down costs, and fully leverage diversification, Wall Street’s only “free lunch” </li> <li> Learn what your investment advisors still won’t tell you The objective truth about today’s ETF’s: changing costs, risks, and opportunities </li> <li> Build and maintain your “one-decision” portfolio–the easy way! Profitable investing has never been this simple </li> <li> Derive even greater profits with proven “active” strategies Simple allocation strategies you can implement in just minutes </li> </ul>

Investing with Exchange-Traded Funds Made Easy: A Start-to-finish Plan to Reduce Costs and Achieve Higher Returns

Finance

“The authors have created a simple, systematic plan that gives investors a long-term edge with minimal effort and reduced risk. They’ve done all the work for you, and it’s rewarding and easy to follow.” –Bob Kargenian, President, TABR Capital Management “There are diamonds in them thar hills’ — but to find investment grade diamonds it pays to have experienced guides. Gerald and Marvin Appel provide a simple but powerful plan for the often complex world of investment opportunities.” –Dr. Alexander Elder, Author of Come Into My Trading Room and Trading for a Living A Complete Roadmap for Investing Like a Pro That Requires Only 1 Hour Every 3 Months <ul>
<li>The easy way to build a winning portfolio–and keep winning</li> <li>Reduce risk, increase growth, and protect wealth even in tough, volatile markets </li> <li>Absolutely NO background in math or finance necessary!</li> </ul> You can do better! You don’t have to settle for “generic” investment performance, and you needn’t delegate your decision-making to expensive investment managers. This book shows how you can quickly and easily build your optimal global portfolio–and then keep it optimized, in just one hour every three months. Top investment managers Gerald and Marvin Appel provide specific recommendations and simple selection techniques that any investor can use–even novices. The Appels’ approach is remarkably simple and requires only one hour of your time every 3 months, but don’t let that fool you: it draws on state-of-the-art strategies currently being used that really work. www.systemsandforecasts.com www.appelasset.com www.signalert.com If you know what to do, active investing can yield far better returns than “buy-and-hold” investing. But conventional approaches to active investing can be highly complex and time-consuming. Finally, there’s a proven, easy-to-use approach: one that’s simple enough for novices, quick enough for anyone, requires no background in math–and works! Gerald and Marvin Appel show you how to identify, and give you specific recommendations for, the best mutual funds, ETFs, bond funds, and international funds. They do not stop there. They demonstrate how you can quickly and easily evaluate each investment’s performance every 3 months, and how to make adjustments to continually optimize the performance of your portfolio. Using their easy to implement strategies, you can achieve better capital growth while reducing risk; profit from new opportunities at home and abroad; make the most of innovative investment vehicles; and protect your assets even in the toughest markets. Improving rates of return while you also reduce risk Setting intelligent investment targets and implementing strategies to meet them Identifying today’s most profitable market sectors… …and those that will continue to lead Short-term vs. long-term bonds, mature vs. emerging markets What to choose now, and when to switch

Beating the Market, 3 Months at a Time: A Proven Investing Plan Everyone Can Use

Appel, Gerald

Investing

“Marvin Appel is a discerning and highly regarded money manager. In this concise but compelling text, he shows how individual investors can use a range of fixed-income strategies to gain superior returns while ably managing risk.” --Nelson Freeburg, Editor, Formula Research “This book is a great source of knowledge. While reading I found myself learning things I didn’t know, and I’ve been in this business for over 20 years. Marvin Appel has done an excellent job; I am truly impressed.” --Ike Iossif, President and Chief Investment Officer, Aegean Capital Group, Inc., and Executive Producer of “MarketViews.tv” Today, many risk-averse investors simply can’t meet their income needs with conventional bank CDs, money market funds, or bonds. This book reveals how you can earn more, without exposing yourself to excessive risk or the costs of a highly active trading strategy. Dr. Marvin Appel shows how to take advantage of high-yield bond funds and income-producing equity strategies...when to purchase individual bonds, when to use bond mutual funds, and which bond funds are best...how to finally make diversification work again. Step by step, you’ll build a master portfolio for the coming years: one that can deliver attractive long-term returns more safely than you ever thought possible! <ul>
<li> Safer strategies for boosting fixed income returns Smarter ways to mix bond ladders, investment-grade taxable bonds, municipal bonds, and high-yield bond mutual funds </li>
<li> Stock strategies that create new income streams at lower risk Simple ways to use high-dividend stocks and covered call writing </li>
<li> Building the right income portfolio for your situation Practical choices that reflect your temperament, goals, and needs </li> </ul>
You can’t survive on what CDs and money markets are paying these days--but you can’t live with high risk, either. Fortunately, with this book’s powerful, proven strategies, you can earn more income without losing sleep! Dr. Marvin Appel reveals smarter, safer ways to use bonds and bond funds...derive more cash from stocks at surprisingly low risk...safely supplement your returns with preferred shares and options...plan for income you can actually live on!

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Investing With Exchange Traded Funds Made Easy: Higher Returns With Lower Costs-do It Yourself Strategies Without Paying Fund Managers

Investing with Exchange-Traded Funds Made Easy: A Start-to-finish Plan to Reduce Costs and Achieve Higher Returns

Beating the Market, 3 Months at a Time: A Proven Investing Plan Everyone Can Use

Higher Returns from Safe Investments: Using Bonds, Stocks, and Options to Generate Lifetime Income