How to Buy Shares - QQQQ Power Shares Trading Tips

QQQQ is an exchange traded fund (ETF) in the fund family of PowerShares QQQ Trust. The fund was incepted on March 10^th 1999 and has net assets of $18.7 billion in the large growth category. Some investors appear to believe that the liquidity of an ETF is dependent on the fund's average trading volume, or the number of shares traded per day. However, this is not the case. Rather, a better measure of ETF liquidity is the liquidity of the underlying stocks in the index.

QQQQ is As Good As a Stock

QQQQ is 1/40^th of the 100 stocks that makes the Nasdaq-100 index. Nasdaq-100 index consists of the largest 100 non-financial securities listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The QQQQ fund is a unit investment trust designed to correspond generally to the performance, before fees and expenses, of the Nasdaq-100 index. QQQQ is therefore as good as a stock; it pays dividends and has options. Rather than having a portfolio of the 100 stocks that comprises the Nasdaq-100 index, you can instead have QQQQ and benefit from low fees, instant pricing and tax advantages among other attractions.

Ten Top Holding Stocks

The ten top holding stocks of QQQQ fund include Apple (AAPL, 13.17%), Microsoft (MSFT, 5.64%), Qualcomm (QCOM, 5.54%), Google (GOOG, 4.89%), Research in Motion (RIMM, 4.22%), Cisco Sys (CSCO, 3.14%), Gilead Sciences (GILD, 3.08%), Oracle (ORCL, 2.88%), Intel (INTC, 2.76%), and Teva Pharm (TEVA, 1.85%).

Sector Weightings

Sector weightings for QQQQ is Software - 16.97%, Industrial Materials - 2.52%, Hardware - 38.51%, Media - 6.09%, Telecommunication - 1.66%, Healthcare - 14.51%, Consumer Services - 9.74%, Business Services - 9.83%, and Consumer Goods - 0.17%.

Why You Should Prefer Trading QQQQ

You should prefer trading QQQQ Exchange Traded Fund because QQQQ will spread risks across the other 100 stocks, QQQQ pay dividends, QQQQ is less noisy, QQQQ is not very prone to rumors and or manipulations, QQQQ Options are spread at workable intervals for spread strategies, QQQQ options have very high volumes and above all, QQQQ trades are easily predictable by using the broad market indices of Nasdaq, SP500, Dow, Russell 3000 and NYSE.

Following QQQQ Power Shares' Trading Directions with Precision

By intermarrying several facts and in consideration of only proven mathematical logics, the table below will provide you with logical trading tips and conditions that will beat everyone else's trades hands down. The table shows trades on QQQQ as a stock from April 05, 2007 to the current date.

If you look at the net profit realized from QQQQ trades in the table shown (click on the table to view larger size of the table in a new window), to many people, these gains are small percentages perhaps not worth the effort. Then why should you risk trading these QQQQ trades? The real gains are in between the tops of crests and bottoms of troughs. All you need to know is to be able to identify where the tops of crests and bottoms of troughs are. A 5% gain in QQQQ stock may translate to 100% gain in its options. The opposite is also true. You may look at trading these small gains to generate better gains from options.

Refer to the page QQQQ Power Shares' Tradable Crests and Troughs  as a reference to understanding these trades.

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1. Look at the current trade entry which is a Short on QQQQ which was initiated on June 11, 2008 at a price of $47.37. You will notice that the only driving forces are QQQQ price and price of Nasdaq Composite index.

2. Looking further you will notice that what triggered that short trade was the conditions that (a) If QQQQ less than $47.82 AND (b) If $COMQ less than $2430.36, sell to open (short) QQQQ stock. You are able to achieve that by using an automatic multiple conditional order that you set and resides in your broker's trading system.

3. Immediately that trade was initiated, a automatic conditional stop loss order was set to prevent you from losing substantial amount of money had the QQQQ gone to the upside. In this case the automatic stop was buy to close (long) QQQQ stock on conditions (a) If QQQQ is greater than $50.61 AND (b) If $COMQ is greater than $2549.94. Luckily in this case the choice of the QQQQ trading direction was correct and QQQQ sunk far deep.

4. What do you do next? You try to lock your gains by adjusting your automatic stop loss order with your broker. As you can see that automatic stop loss order has been adjusted until it is currently standing at (a) If QQQQ is greater than $36.15 AND (b) If $COMQ is greater than $1896.95, buy to close (long) QQQQ stock.

5. With time and if QQQQ sunk far deep, that automatic stop loss order will be adjusted downward accordingly (watch this page for updates).

6. Between June 11, 2008 and now there have been tops of crests and bottoms of troughs which have been very profitable when traded to the downside because the market has been in a downtrend. All you needed was only to be able to identify where the tops of crests and bottoms of troughs were.

7. December 8th 2008: The stop loss order has been penetrated. The market is now uptrend.

8. January 16th 2009: The stop loss order has been penetrated. The market is now downtrend.

9. April 02, 2009: The stop loss order has been penetrated. The market is now uptrend.

Automatic Stop Loss Order

As QQQQ stock currently stand, it will remains in an uptrend (a) If QQQQ is greater than $34.30 AND (b) If $COMQ is greater than $1727.05. With time and as QQQQ stock moves, that automatic stop loss order will be adjusted accordingly (watch this page for updates) to protects your profits or losses.

It is important to note that the price of QQQQ is getting closer to stop loss price of $34.30 which means the trend can change any time but until then remain uptrend.

Contents for Entertainment Purposes

And because losing a trade can be painful to some people, the contents of this hub are meant for entertainment purposes only.

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