19 important things you should know about PowerShares QQQ before you buy it

A comprehensive article about investing PowerShares QQQ : "19 important things you should know about PowerShares QQQ before you buy it"

PowerShares QQQ is a top U.S. - Large Cap Growth fund by assets and is hugely popular among individual investors. We’ll cover some of the basic and advanced topics you should know about QQQ, such as:

QQQ ETF profile
QQQ underlying index (i.e., what does it track?)
QQQ holdings
QQQ historical performance
QQQ dividend yield
QQQ expense ratio
QQQ tax efficiency (implications of investing in QQQ on taxable accounts)
QQQ beta (risk level)
QQQ Sharpe ratio (risk-adjusted return)
QQQ vs VTSAX
QQQ vs SOXX
QQQ vs VUG
QQQ vs FDN
QQQ vs VTI
QQQ vs XLK
QQQ vs TQQQ
QQQ vs VGT
QQQ vs SPY
QQQ vs. other ETFs or mutual funds

 

Likely all true and accurate, but for traders every bit of this is meaningless.

 

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Mostly all true; except i seldom check the exspence ratio or comparison to SPY, but have done that in the past.LOL Besides the [ETFs]exspence ratio is/are trending down................................................................................. I did check that on some ''free'' trading offers, but its on a much lower volume products so i passed.

 

there is only 1 thing you need to know - nobody can outperform it.

 

Somebody must it is an average.

If you can't outperform it you should not be trading.

 

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Plenty can't outperform SPY/ S&P 500;
over 10 years.

 

The only thing one should know before entering any trade; what are the risks
and how to control them.

 

%% Good points;
but get more than that.Like it went down 80% bear of 2002/+............ Uptrending now

 

Well as discussions on this forum shows people do not know to control risks, they just buying, and then just panicking... And selling on the bottom of course

 

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Strange how much that happens; then you have CNBC trying to get the buyers back in all the time in a bear market LOL.. NOT a prediction+ i dont watch them that much anymore......