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THE ETF
The exchange traded fund offers excellent diversification, all in a single instrument that trades intra day with the ease of a single stock. Purchased and sold through any broker. ETF expense ratios are less and generally have less restrictions then mutual funds.
 
RISK MANAGEMENT
The exchange traded fund (ETF) offers excellent risk reduction through diversification; often into hundreds of individual holdings per each ETF. YourETF.com ranks each ETF holding and the portfolio with a risk ranking scored 1 through 10  based on historical price volatility in order to assess and manage your desired risk level. Price volatility has historically proven to be one of the most accurate measurements of a given investments risk.
 
INVESTMENT SELECTION AND ASSET ALLOCATION
During prolonged down trends in the market YourETF will recommend a more conservative approach possibly entering bond money market and short style ETF positions. YourETF does not believe in buying and holding in a long term bear market.  Bond ETF's, Money Market, and Stock Index ETF's both long and short can be used in our portfolio mixes and some ETF's have leverage.  When the market is in a long term down trend why be in the market 'Don't fight the trend' get out of the way. You can be in a Money Market positions and short sector ETF's with YourETF during those long term Bear markets. Why fight the tape and get hurt in the process?
 
SECTOR ROTATION
YourETF will keep your investments in the areas of the market that are performing best in any given phase of the current economic cycle. Why be in the lagging sectors of the global economy that are currently out of favor? It is aggregate corporate earnings expansion or contraction that moves the worlds markets and sectors plain and simple.   It is easy with only a few ETF's  to participate in the various sweet spots of the market, without risking overexposure to any one area. If an investor wishes a reduced risk level or increased income distributions, YourETF offers multiple ETF portfolios with just those objectives in mind. You will be rotated into the currently strong areas of the market. Moving your entire portfolio is as easy as trading only a few stocks. Why be stuck with a bloated immovable portfolio? The mutual fund industry typically uses the S&P 500 as a comparative Benchmark. At YourETF we believe that the S&P 500 is not a good Benchmark due to it's underperformance to several other indexes that offer far greater performance with lower levels of risk. In the short table of Basic Market Indexes on the home page you can see that the S&P 500 has more or the same risk with less performance than two (The VTI and the MDY) indexes in this very abbreviated selection of Index ETF's.
 
YourETF PORTFOLIO IMPLEMENTATION PROCEDURE
Buy, Hold or Exchange all of YourETF selections always using a Limit Order (Some ETF's have poor pricing issues due to volatility, caused by low daily trading volume) if a purchase or sale is required; to match all of the holdings in your chosen YourETF Portfolio. This should be done as soon as possible upon receiving  the Monthly revision or the sign up of a new YourETF membership.  You will receive a e-mailed market  and portfolio update sent on a as needed basis. If there are no changes, no notice is needed and nothing has changed either the market view or the separate holdings in the ETF portfolios. Again there will not be any updates or notices unless a change in the overall market condition warrants.  At the original Portfolio setup you should equal weight all four YourETF positions at 25% per each holding in your personal Portfolio. When rotating out of one investment into another during a portfolio change; exchange the entire position or positions into the new holding or holdings. If a portfolio requires re-balancing we recommend only doing so on an annual basis, as to prevent excessive trade or churn problems of trade commission expenses and overall hassle.
 
Below is a previously posted expired example of the
 PORTFOLIOS / MARKETS
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MEMBERS PORTFOLIOS / MARKETS
Yellow indicates a change from last Month
 
 AGGRESSIVE PORTFOLIO
ETF Name      (Symbol) Year
to
date		 One
year		 Three
year		 Risk
Rank
1-10
 Nasdaq 100 (QQQQ)       9
S&P 500 (SPY) quote   below 8
Mid Cap Value (IJJ) any   holding 7
Small Cap Growth (IJT)       9
Totals -7% 2% 3% 8
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Moderate Portfolio
ETF Name   (Symbol) Three
Year		 One
Year		 Year
To
Date		 Risk Rank
1-10
Nasdaq 100 (QQQQ)       10
Mid Cap Value (IJJ) Get quote below 1
Small Cap Growth (IJT) for each ETF 1
Money Market       1
Totals 4% -5% 5% 3
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Conservative Portfolio
   ETF Name      (Symbol) Three
Year		 One
Year		  Year
To
Date		 Risk
Rank
1-10
Nasdaq 100 (QQQQ)       8
Mid Cap Value (IJJ) Get quote below 7
Money Market for each ETF 1
Money Market       1
Totals 15% 3% 4% 4
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Performance as of the end of month market close 3-31-2009
(YourETF Portfolios initiated on 10-1-2004)
Portfolio return data is not total return (does not include yield return)
 
Portfolio Summary:   Changes are required: S&P 500 was exchanged for the Nasdaq 100 due to strength in Technology!

Bond Market observation:

Questions about the economy, oil, inflation and the financials, real-estate/mortgage issue overshadow the bond market. The Federal Reserve has cut interest rates due to the weakening economy.  Fear of inflation has been put to bed for now with the weakening global economy.  The feds concern over inflation (Inflation control has historically been their primary objective) containment has taken a back seat to their concern over the economic downturn. The Bernake Fed has taken action, as apposed to waiting for the economic downturn to get worse. The Fed is willing to risk the possibility of causing another potential future problem, that being increased prices or to weaken the US dollar. In December 2008 the Federal reserve emptied it's guns and lowered short term interest rates as low as it can and announced large expenditures to help prop up the weak economy and help finance the poor housing market. The fed has no more significant ammunition in it's tool, chest except buying assets and must now wait and hope for the previous moves to have a positive reconstructive effect on the US financial picture, we shall hope and wait as well with bated breath.

    Foreigners and other fearful investors are still scarfing up US treasury dept. This demand is due to the fact that the US is still the safest show in town on a global scale, lets hope that does not change!  For now interest rates are and probably will remain historically low. These bond holders are skewing the usual demand supply balance with their unprecedented appetite for our long term dept.  This high demand is causing low interest rates plain and simple. This situation as long as it exists, will keep rates low. If the world wide view of the strength and quality of the US weakens; there will be higher interest rates going forward.

 Stock Market observation:
New and weakening financial information involving GDP, Mortgage,  job data, reduced corporate earnings, projections and analyst rating data are driving global market volatility. Also employment data, the economy, interest rates, mortgage related toughened credit requirements, questions on future inflation, deflation, the real estate debacle and their effects on consumers, companies, economies, government budgets and spending weigh on the world. These negatives are priced into the market. The negative gravity of this global financial reckoning as the world economically deleverages is potentially over.  Record levels of cash on the sidelines wait  to go to work. These dollars will propel the market quickly up when put to work as things improve. Fear of being left behind causes the investor to shift from cash to stock.  This historic financial time will for sure make the books as one of the most baffling. Bullish is the call, however don't get set in your thoughts as the situation is very dynamic and is subject to change on short notice.

Technical Market Notes:

All of the sudden thing have turned in the markets.  This potential turn in the market in indicated by high volume positive buying patterns and strong market internals.  741 on the S&P 500 has been broken and is on the way up.  900 could be the next point of resistance. Extreme bearish investor sediment, record high levels of cash and covering short positions will be the fuel for this upside move. Tech and financials are doing the best off of the bottom.
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