The Money Farm Team

These Notes have been delisted, and issue has been put on hold. Details can be found in the news release. UGAZ ETF, what happened? Credit Suisse looks to have taken a step back from leveraged products involving volatile commodities. UGAZ and DGAZ are listed on the NYSE ARCA, which indicates that the delisting date is […]

The United States Oil Fund (USO) is an exchange-traded product (ETP) that aims to match daily price fluctuations of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) light, sweet crude oil with investment returns. The United States Oil Fund is for short-term investors who can keep track of their positions and are positive on WTI crude oil short-term futures

UVXY is a 1.5x leveraged ETF that tracks the S&P 500 Short-Term VIX Futures Index. S&P Global provides this index, which is simple to understand: it holds a basket of first and second month VIX futures with an average holding of 30-days into the future. Is UVXY a decent exchange-traded fund (ETF)? UVXY may appear

UCO belongs to the family of leveraged oil-focused exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Activate UW Email UW Exchange Online (part of UW Office 365) and UW Gmail are two cloud-based email services offered by UW (part of UW G Suite). To activate your UW Email, follow the on-screen steps. Forward Email to UW Exchange Online (part of

Vanguard Growth ETF is an exchange-traded share class of the Vanguard Growth Index Fund, which uses an indexing investment method to track the performance of the CRSP US Large Cap Growth Index, a broadly diversified index of growth equities mostly owned by large U.S. corporations. The fund tries to replicate the target index by investing

With over $8 billion in assets under management, the ProShares UltraPro QQQ ETF (TQQQ) is the most popular leveraged ETF. The fund aims to deliver 300 percent of the daily returns of the NASDAQ-100 index, which is mostly comprised of technology and communications stocks. The cost ratio for this ETF is 0.95 percent. Which ETF

What is an ETF’s Net Asset Value (NAV)? The NAV of an ETF is calculated by dividing the value of all the securities held by the ETF – such as shares or bonds, as well as cash – by the number of shares outstanding, less any liabilities such as the Total Expense Ratio (TER). The

Inverse ETFs, such as the S&P 500 SPDR (ARCA:SPY) and the Dow Jones Industrial Average SPDR (ARCA:DIA), move in the opposite direction of major index ETFs (ARCA:DIA). You can protect yourself and/or profit from a decrease in the major indexes by purchasing an inverse ETF. Given that the S&P 500 SPDR has already broken through

When the market price of an ETF on the exchange climbs above or falls below its NAV, it is called a premium or discount to the NAV. When the market price exceeds the NAV, the ETF is said to be trading at a premium “high-end.” It is trading at a discount if the price is

What is the most significant drawback of an ETF? A) Compared to equivalent index mutual bonds, ETFs have cheaper management fees. In most cases, there is no minimum investment amount for ETFs. What are the risks associated with ETFs? They are, without a doubt, less expensive than mutual funds. They are, without a doubt, more