Moving Average ETF Trading Strategy Update for Week Ending 8-21-09

The moving average ETF investor checked the 50 day/200 day moving averages for the 10 ETFs in the balanced ETF portfolio. He was already long in 8 out of the 10 ETFs. All 8 had no moving average cross overs so there was no signal to sell any this past week.

Of the remaing 2 ETFs, the iShares Barclays TIPS Bond ETF (TIP) had a moving average cross indicating to go long. The buy point was Friday's close of $101.83 per share with 5 shares purchased.

The moving average investor is now long in 9 of the 10 ETFs from the blalnced ETF portfolio. The 9 ETFs are:

• iShares Barclays Aggregate Bond (AGG)
• iShares Barclays 1-3 Year Credit Bond (CSJ)
• Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock ETF (VWO)
• Vanguard Pacific ETF (VPL)
• Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI)
• iShares Russell 2000 Index (IWM)
• Vanguard European Stock ETF (VGK)
• S&P 500 ETF (SPY)
• iShares Barclays TIPS Bond (TIP)

Additional Info:

The balanced ETF portfolio being used for this experiment consists of 10 ETFs. You can view the portflio here. In this list you will notice the % of the portfolio we are targeting for each ETF.