Release of the discovery is so new I don't believe others have had much opportunity to incorporate it into their trading strategies. Eventually I can conceive of an environment where The Taylor Effect will become a required tool for the financially informed. Accurate market trend forecasts were not available until now. Today, investment advisors and individual investors will have an incredible advantage they never had before.

Many people purchase mutual funds because they are a convenient and cost effective method of obtaining diversification and professional management. Because mutual funds hold anywhere from a few securities to several thousand, risk is spread out over a number of investments. Additionally, mutual funds generally buy and sell securities in volume, which allows investors to benefit from lower trading, management and research costs.

Our goals are to have professionally managed investment alternatives that provide liquidity and diversification. Most Everyday Steward portfolios consist of no-load mutual funds.

Yes! Any type of security for which you can obtain end-of-day (EOD) data will work in Pikker. When we refer to "securities", this includes any stocks, mutual funds, indices, ETFs, or any other financial instrument that is traded on the open markets, and for which you can obtain pricing data. You could even load futures, commodities, or options data, although using this type of data with conventional indicators would be rather tricky.

One way to follow our stop-loss is to base the stop for your fund on the percentage difference between the price that we issue and the price of the NASDAQ 100 index for that point in time. Unfortunately, due to the sheer multitude of mutual funds available to trade, we cannot offer you fund-specific stop-loss prices. More ...

Sure, but you will have to manually enter a complete EOD quote (OHLCV). Some people think this is sort of a redundant effort, since many fund managers use technical analysis on the underlying stocks, anyway. Lots of others do it, though. Each could involve a number of different data formats, depending upon just what is available, or usable: complete/partial exchanges, portfolios, intra-day and/or EOD quotes, indices, histories, etc., are all possible.

Ideally, your fund roster should have more players than a basketball team but no more than a baseball team. For your starting five, a diversified lineup would be funds representing these types of stocks: large, fast-growing companies; smaller fast-growing companies; large companies selling at bargain prices; smaller companies selling as bargains; and foreign companies.

It depends which index your inverse mutual fund tracks. For example, if you are trading the Rydex Venture 100, you can use QQQQ short signals. More ... For this purpose, you can use SPDRs signal which is designed for traders who trade SPY and related mutual funds.

Your investment horizon can be broadened because there are different types of funds that can provide a convenient and cost effective way to capitalize on both local and overseas investment opportunities. Diversification may take different forms, e.g. along geographic or industry lines, or amongst different securities or issuers.

Annual management fees are usually allocated from the fund on a daily basis and will not constitute an out-of-pocket expense for investors. They vary among different types of funds.

Settlement requirements for mutual funds vary. Some funds such as money market funds may require cleared fund whereas the others require three to five business days for settlement. Please contact our Investment Service Centres 8:00 a.m. Monday through 4:00 p.m. Saturday at (852) 2902 3888 in Hong Kong or (65) 6327 2288 in Singapore for more information.

The drawbacks with mutual funds are that you have no control on the investments of the fund; and, more importantly, the downside of diversification is that a fund can hold so many stocks that a tremendously great performance by a stock will make very little difference to a fund's overall performance.

Mutual funds have many benefits. They offer an easy and inexpensive way for an individual to get returns from stocks and bonds without: incurring the risks involved in buying them directly; needing the capital to buy quality stocks; or having the expert knowledge to make the right buy/sell decisions.

All Asset Management Companies (AMCs) are regulated by SEBI and/or the RBI (in case the AMC is promoted by a bank). In addition, every Mutual Fund has a board of directors that represents the unit holders' interests in the Mutual Fund.

Although past performance is no guarantee for the future, it is a useful way of assessing how well or badly a fund has performed in comparison to its stated objectives and peer group. A good way to do this would be to identify the five best performing funds (within your selected investment objectives) over various periods, say 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 2 years and 3 years.

In a nutshell, professional management, diversification, safety, liquidity, and service. If you were to manage your own portfolio of stocks, you'd have to research, select, and monitor thousands of securities to construct a diversified portfolio of stocks. There's an easier way. Mutual funds offer numerous advantages to individual investors, including toll-free switching, checking privileges, automatic dividend and capital gains reinvestment, and trained customer service reps.

Yes. Currently our branches in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia are licensed to do so. Branch locations for those provinces can be found here: http://www.cwbank.com/branches.

You avail of the services of experienced and skilled professionals who are backed by a dedicated investment research team. Investing in a Mutual Fund reduces paperwork and helps you avoid many problems such as bad deliveries, delayed payments and unnecessary follow up. Over a medium to long-term, Mutual Funds have the potential to provide a higher return as they invest in a diversified basket of selected securities.