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Tracking Stocks offer a trader to participate in the stock market with broad based ownership of an index vs. owning one or several individual stocks. Tracking Stocks are often referred to as Index Exchange Trackers, or ETFs. Ownership of Tracking Stocks or ETFs offer the advantages of both mutual funds and shares of stock. These are securities purchased like any other stock. The difference is that instead of owning one or a few stocks, buying these provides ownership of an entire index thus reducing risk exposure.
More than a decade after exchange-traded funds emerged as easily traded alternatives to index mutual funds, market forces seem to be aligning for ETFs. As of late 2008, they held $440 billion in assets, and made up only a small fraction of overall investments in mutual funds. But they have accounted for nearly 4 in every 10 trades on U.S. exchanges, as ETF investors moved in and out of markets amid wild swings in trading sessions. Their popularity has prompted at least 114 ETFs to enter the marketplace in 2008. Please click on this link to view the Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) Center.
Below, there is a reference of Major Indices & Respective Tracking Stocks. If you click on the ticker symbols following the names, an information page will open revealing the last 5-sessions trading and Year-to-Date movements in several periods of time. Also, once the page opens, if you look at the left column menu under 'Technicals' you will be able to open a chart and several other options.
Finally, if you click here on ETF Heat Maps a tremendously useful page will open that allows for a fast view of how individual ETFs have done after the close of each session. Double-clicking on any symbol will then open a financial information page, complete with a chart of that symbol. This is a great fast and easy reference if you trade ETFs!
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Major Indices
SPDRs
International ETF Listings |
Tracking Stock Sectors
Inverse Funds (Short) |