If you don't want the added volatility then you shouldn't trade those ETFs. You are laready at a disadvantage with the high fees and decay.
Hey, I just read Smart Portfolios, and looking putting together my investment portfolio. This seems to be the place to contact you according to your Blog? Fast forward to 2024, and for UK investors we now have the follow Small Cap Value US ETFs available on IB: 1. BBSC (JPMorgan Betabuilders, with 0.14% TER) 2. IUSZ (iShares USA Size Factor, with 0.20% TER) Despite it's smaller AUM, is the relatively new JPM ETF with it's cheaper holding costs the better choice? I think the other ETFs on IB have higher management costs than these two options so I'm discounting them
%% Good point; + key on those trend trades is '' IF you want to'' LOL Also key , not designed for buy + hold' not suitable for most investors [or traders] like SCHW warns. In a slop -chop trend= cash, money markets + cash ETFs do better
According to their respective websites: JPM BetaBuilders (ETF: BBSC) has $160m AUM. iShares (ETF: IUSZ) has £170m AUM. So perhaps the more established iShares ETF edges it in that case if 6bp isn't a huge saving, just based on it's longer history of close tracking of it's benchmark?... https://www.ishares.com/uk/individual/en/products/285206/ishares-edge-msci-usa-size-factor-ucits-etf
%% LOL even more so\ he is writing about holding them. May have a fighting chance +a prayer with a goof trend. But mostly slippage is worse also........; + less dividends....