A common choice for beginner investors who want exposure to the overall stock market is to put money into an exchange-traded fund or ETF. Think of ETFs as buckets that hold a collection of ...

This latter group might be more attracted to the idea of exchange-traded funds, more commonly known by the acronym ETF. These ...

If it's true that the psychological pain of losing money is twice as great as the pleasure you feel when you make a profit, then there's an exchange-traded fund (ETF) for that. A new class of ETFs ...

While most stock investors interpret that as picking individual stocks or exchange-traded funds, there is a new type of investment that is attracting attention. Single-stock ETFs are investment ...

Here’s my roundtable of whats good, bad, and ugly about the major gold bullion ETFs trading on the market today.

Inverse exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are often used by contrarian traders looking to profit from the decline in value of an asset class, such as stocks or bonds. These risky investments ...

With thousands of exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, out there, it's easy for investors to pick a specific strategy and buy into it with just a single holding. Want to invest in tech stocks?

Leveraged ETFs aim to amplify their benchmarks' daily returns by a fixed factor—usually 2X or 3x. For example, let’s say there was a 3X leveraged S&P 500 ETF. If the S&P 500 went up by 5% ...

Gold prices have been on a tear all year, but the love hasn't transferred to exchange-traded funds that invest in the precious metal. But now, the tides are turning.