Whats the difference in risk factor between ETF's and Index funds? What would you choose?
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 2:13 PM Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote: > > Playing the stock market is tough for the experts because they don't > really know what's happening. You can take their advice, and just be one > more step behind them. Buying indexes gives you the collective wisdom of > the entire market (whichever one the index tracks). Most of us do not have > them time or patience or resources or luck to be successful trading > individual stocks. > > -- > bp > part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com > > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 12:57 PM John Osmon <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 09:37:09AM -0600, Lewis Bergman wrote: >> > Indexes do well. You get the benefit of a pretty well managed fund but >> > without the high costs. All those indexes add and remove stocks >> regularly >> > which keeps their performance generrally marching upward. >> >> Yep. If you get into the math of portfolio management it becomes pretty >> obvious that a random smattering of diverse stocks performs (on average) >> at least as good as the market as a whole. While picking stocks has >> higher volatility -- and thus more risk/reward. >> >> If you want to pick stocks rather based on something other than an >> index, you need to be lucky, or have information few others have. >> >> To bring it back into networking, look up some of the HFT folks (Anton >> Kapella here?). Geting a few millisecond advantage of information can >> sometimes *BE* that "information few others have" and thus can >> make/break transactions. >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- -- *Sam Lambie* Taosnet Wireless Tech. 575-758-7598 Office www.Taosnet.com <http://www.newmex.com>
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