iPhone 5 is coming soon...

Investing in technology sometime can be difficult, however, investors who invested in Apple (AAPL) are in some happy campers.  iPhone 5 rumored to be coming out sometime in August to November of this year.  I can see the stock is going back to the 52 week high level.

ETF SOCL - Global X Social Media Index Fund

Many of you including me are very interesting owning Facebook (FB) shares in the future when IPO is set to be sometime around May of this year. However, we might not able to obtain Facebook shares. One way to obtain Facebook share is to own Global X Social Media Index Fund (SOCL) in Nasdaq. Over the last 5 days, it has gain 7 percent anticipate Facbook IPO. As a disclosure, I do not own any SOCL shares.

50 and 200 Day Moving Averages 101

One of the most effective and widely used technical trading tools is the simple moving average. The two averages that I looked at are 50 days and 200 days simple moving averages (SMA).

When I trade indexes, I usually look for those two averages and see how they perform over the year. A quick way to see whether it is a good entry point is to see whether the 50 days cross over and above the 200 days moving averages and via versa.

You can use google financial and other charting tools to do a quick technical analysis chart.

Calymore Canadian Financial Monthly Income ETF

Calymore Canadian Financial Monthly Income ETF is a basket of Canadian Financial companies in one ETF. It pays $0.04 per month as dividend. The ETF last paid on December 23, 2011 for $0.04 every share you own.

52 week trading in the range of $5.86 - $7.34. I am comparing this to TD Monthly Income fund that also pay monthly income. For 1 year performance, TD Monthly income fund outperform the ETF over 10%. (TD gain 0.79% while FIE lost 9.82%).

Trading ETF with no fee

There are a lot of products that now trade specific ETF without any trading fee. Be careful with these products and make sure you read the prospective of the product.

There are 3 brokers now that have commission free ETF: Scotia iTrade, Qtrade Investor and Virtual Brokers.

However, none of the above three brokers offers the following commission free ETF:

1) iShares S&P/TSX 60 Index Fund (XIU)-T17.55----%) which is the largest Candian ETF accessing 60 biggest publicly traded Canadian companies .

2) iShares DEX Universe Bond Index Fund (XBB) - accessing the whole Canadian bond market

Introduction to ETF Income

This blog intends to help people who has a strong belief in passive income. ETF - Exchange-Traded Fund is an easy and simply way to diversify your portfolio. Moreover, I am a strong believer of passive income without taking any risk of individual stock. Therefore, a basket of dividend paying stocks is the way to go to have a safe, simply and diversified portfolio.

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XIT (TSX) concentrates on Waterloo Companies

An example of ETF that concentrate on one or two hightech stocks in Canada is not a good idea. For example, for MER 0.55%, you are getting:

29% - RESEARCH IN MOTION
18% - NORTEL NETWORKS CORP
17% - CGI GROUP INC - CL A
10% - OPEN TEXT CORP
10% - CELESTICA INC
7% - MACDONALD DETTWILER & ASSOC
7% - TERANET INCOME FUND
2% - AASTRA TECHNOLOGIES LTD

39% of the portfolio are companies located at Waterloo, Ontario.

Becareful when you adding ETF into your portfolios.

Visa and MasterCard Stock

Visa and Mastercard stocks have been up quite a lot. I admit that I have miss the boat. However, I am not taking any risk on non-dividend paying stock even Mastercard has a very small dividend yield.

One way to play using ETF is the "First Trust IPOX 100 Index ETF" (FPX). The ETF tracks an index of top 100 IPOs. The fund allows you to play IPOs without volatile movements because it only adds the new IPO on their seventh trading day in the market.

Another ETF is (IYF) which is the iShares Dow Jones US Financial Sector which Visa could be next to join into the index.

Horizons BetaPro ETF

Horizons BetaPro ETFs celebrating their 1st Anniversary and the launch of 10 additional ETFs click here for your invitation

Investing in Water ETF

I watched a news previously and did some research on invest in companies that sanitized Water. The article can be read at SeekingAlpha.

I personally like PHO (US) - POWERSHARES WATER RES PTF. It pays a dividend of 14 cents per year. I personally do not own any of the Water ETF (enclosure). Take a look at these Water ETFs. The author states that Water ETF is a great long term hold in the next few decades.

The Pros and Cons of Dividend Fund / ETF

Dividend funds, whether you own the as mutual funds or as Exchange-traded fund (ETF) can be a stressless way to invest in a boarder stock market. Here is why:

(1) Dividend fund /ETF can serve as both offence and defence way whether the stock market is in a bull or bear market. For example, if the stock or fund declines 2% but paid 2.75% as dividend. The overall gain for the investor of the fund / ETF is 0.75% without factoring the tax calculation

(2) Dividend fund / ETF usually consists of solid blue chips company that has long record of profitability and stability. Dividend fund / ETF can be a great defensive method for long term investor.

So, whether or not you are thinking of having dividend funds in your portfolio. I believe each investor should have a basket of solid blue chips dividend paid companies.

For Dividend ETF, here are what I have invested:

FTN.TO (Financial 15 ETF)
DFN.TO (Dividend 15 ETF)