Grow Your Investments with the Best Mutual Funds and ETF’s: Making Long-Term Investment Decisions with the Best Funds Today

By Stephen McKee

The next leap in the evolution of ETF investing: a two-pronged strategy for succeeding in both bull and bear markets

ETF expert Stephen McKee introduces his “Comet System”—a proven system for selecting and timing the market to take full advantage of mutual funds and ETFs.

Stephen McKee is president of Investment Selections & Timing, Inc., and he publishes No-Load Mutual Fund Selections & Timing newsletter; he has been interviewed as an expert on the subject by Forbes, Barron’s, The Hulbert Financial Digest, and Timer Digest

• Language: English
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Release date: Apr 3, 2015
• ISBN: 9780071816496

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Around the Buttonwood Tree

IN THE NEW WORLD, SPECULATORS AND INVESTORS GATHERED around the buttonwood tree in what would become Manhattan to make deals, to buy and sell, in what was a fairly exclusive club 200 years ago.¹ Today traders, managers, speculators, and investors gather around their computer monitors to receive instant information from around the world and make buy and sell decisions. The idea of the exchange is still the same today: like a button, it is to bring two sides together. From its humble beginnings, the financial industry has grown with the wealth of the nations to help you to create and retain your own wealth.

Imagine that today we have 20,000 professionals competing for the privilege of managing your money, whether your nest egg ranges from a tiny sum of $100 to a tidy sum of $1 billion or more. Imagine no more, however, because that is what the mutual fund and exchange-traded fund, or ETF,² market is doing for us today. These professionals want our money to manage whether it comes in the form of a new 401(k) participant or a retired person’s account or anywhere in between. They are scrambling over themselves to promote their firm, their investment style, and their market strategy as your best answer to the questions: What do I do now with my investment money? How do I invest it to gain the most return with the least risk of loss?

Most investors have wondered about these questions: Is my nest egg working as hard for me as I do for it? How does my broker or manager compare with other managers? Why is this fund part of my 401(k), rather than some other fund? How will I make sure I have enough money saved to retire on to not only maintain my lifestyle but perhaps even improve upon it? Should I buy and hold or try to time the market? Should I diversify? Is there a more profitable, less stressful, all-weather approach to investing? Do I have to ride the stock market roller coaster up and down just to end up where I began? What’s the best way to use to choose my