Mutual Funds Database
Most investors need a core of mutual funds. The FastTrack Funds database
has virtually all the popular, tradable, equity mutual funds. These
include
- The widely held families like Fidelity, Vanguard, Janus,
Scudder, American Century, TR Price, etc. We cover
almost all funds including fixed income funds and a few money markets.
- The funds that are widely available through the major
brokerage trading programs like the Schwab Mutual Fund Market Place, the
Fidelity Funds Network, T D Waterhouse, etc. This encompasses many small fund
companies with few funds managed by hot managers.
- The database also
includes the major quality load funds including those from American, Putnam,
Oppenheimer, Aim, etc. These funds are often recommended by professional
FastTrackers to their clients.
- 300 Market indexes include Dow Jones sector indexes, all ETF
indexes, and many international indexes.
New Hot Funds
New funds have become a FastTrack specialty. We endeavor to add new, hot
funds as quickly as they are announced. Often we need the cooperation of the
fund company in supplying prices for funds that do not yet have ticker
symbols.
Stocks 1 Database
Stocks 1 is designed to be a link between funds trading and stock trading.
The stocks in the database, typically, make up 75% or more of the holdings of large, diversified, equity funds.
The stocks selected for Stocks 1 include:
- All the components of the S&P 500, S&P Midcap 400, and S&P Small Cap 600.
- All components of the Russell 1000, 2000, 3000.
- All components of the Dow Jones 30, Dow Jones 65, and NASDAQ 100.
- Stocks which comprise holdings of the funds in our mutual funds database.
- Most stocks from the ValueLine 1700.
Diversified portfolios holding 3 or more stocks in the same sector can
provide a level of return above sector funds, and offer the active portfolio
manager more profit potential with moderately more risk.
The same technical tools used to trade sector funds can be used to trade
such stock portfolios. These stocks trend better than shadow stocks (stocks
with little institutional following), and they can be used in connection
with both stock and fund trend-following and trading range strategies.
Stocks 2 Database
The stocks selected for Stocks 2 include:
- Most components of CBOE, Philadelphia, and Pacific Exchange sector
indices not included in Stocks1
- NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ stocks not included in Stocks 1.
Hot New Stocks
These stocks are more volatile and require more use of FT4Web's Internet,
real-time charts and fundamentals to trade well.
FastTrack relative strength trend following techniques may not be
applicable. Diversified portfolios may not produce tradable trends. Total
assets invested in such stocks should be limited to amounts that can be
liquidated easily.
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