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Invesco QQQ

QQQ tracks a modified-market-cap-weighted index of 100 NASDAQ-listed stocks.

Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF

Invesco MSCI EAFE Income Advantage ETF

Invesco QQQ Income Advantage ETF

Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Income Advantage ETF

On Wednesday, Invesco expanded its growing library of active ETFs with the launch of three new strategies.

Invesco Unveils Trio of ETFs With Option Income Spin

ProShares Ultra Bloomberg Natural Gas

Saba Closed-End Funds ETF

Simplify Managed Futures Strategy ETF

Cohen & Steers Closed-End Opportunity Fund

VanEck Bitcoin Trust

iShares iBoxx High Yield Corporate Bond ETF

iShares Interest Rate Hedged High Yield Bond ETF

iShares Bitcoin Trust

iShares Cybersecurity and Tech ETF

iShares Core S&P 500 ETF

KFA Mount Lucas Index Strategy ETF

KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF

Global X Russell 2000 Covered Call ETF

Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF

Amplify Junior Silver Miners ETF

Invesco S&P 500 GARP ETF

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond BuyWrite Strategy ETF

Motley Fool 100 Index ETF

This ETF Edition highlights 12 less covered exchange-traded fund ideas on Seeking Alpha from June 1st - July 15th. ETFs in our first edition include Saba Closed-End Funds, iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond BuyWrite Strategy, Global X Russell 2000 Covered Call, Invesco S&P 500 GARP, and more. Managed futures are in focus with one ETF idea where the author writes they "offer potential for maximizing income, boosting returns, and reducing volatility in a portfolio".

Undercovered Dozen ETF Edition: China, Bitcoin, Cybersecurity, Motley Fool +

ARK Innovation ETF

SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF

Vanguard S&P 500 ETF

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF

One of the well-known benefits of investing in ETFs is diversification. However, with benchmark indexes reaching record levels of concentration, broad-based ETFs may not be as well diversified as investors expect.

The Investor's Guide to Broad-Based ETFs and Concentration

The Nasdaq 100 underperformed the Russell 2000 last week as traders sold off the winners and covered the shorts. The trigger was the below expectations CPI report, and the falling inflation usually accompanies the recessions.

QQQ: Benign Rotation Or The Bubble Burst?

iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF

Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF

Stocks with proven track records of dividend growth quietly outperform their peers in terms of total net return. The Nasdaq-100 index tends to hold more than its fair share of the market's best-performing technology stocks at any given time.

Missed Out on the Bull Market Recovery? 3 ETFs to Help You Build Wealth for Decades.

iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF

iShares National Muni Bond ETF

Invesco Russell 1000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF

iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF

SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF

During LSEG Lipper's fund-flows week that ended July 11, 2024, investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets for the tenth week in 12, adding a net $6.5 billion. This past week, money market funds (+$4.3 billion), taxable bond funds (+$3.4 billion), tax-exempt bond funds (+$775 million), and alternative investments funds (+$640 million) attracted inflows. Equity funds (-$2.3 billion), mixed-assets funds (-$226 million), and commodities funds (-$37 million were the only groups to see outflows.

U.S. Weekly Fund Flows Insight Report: General U.S. Treasury ETFs Take In $1.4 Billion, Eleventh Consecutive Weekly Inflow

iShares Russell 2000 ETF

Direxion NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index Shares

Thursday, the markets clearly showed that the market rotation is finally here. Investors should be mindful that small caps and other beaten-down market areas will likely outperform in the coming months.

Is Thursday's Market Rotation Here to Stay?

Invesco Nasdaq 100 ETF

There's no denying that a small number of mega-cap growth stocks, including Microsoft (MSFT), Nvidia (NVDA), Meta Platforms (META), and Alphabet (GOOG), have propelled broader equity gauges higher this year. The big reason why is artificial intelligence (AI).

Non-AI Themes Could Help These AI-Heavy ETFs

The second half of 2024 is now underway. There are myriad reviews about what worked well in equity markets in the first half and what assets and themes could deliver for investors over the next six months.

AI Megatrend to Loom Large in Second Half of 2024

ETFs across various categories pulled in $11.3 billion in capital last week, pushing the year-to-date inflows to $406.1 billion.

5 ETFs That Investors Loved the Most Last Week

Stocks are off to one of their best starts in history in 2024. However, several data points suggest that a short-term correction may loom.

U.S. Stocks: Does a Summer Market Correction Loom?

Time to switch to "Growth Income" strategy with NUSI ETF for monthly dividend income and capital appreciation potential. NUSI offers low volatility, high yield, and better performance compared to other option income ETFs based on QQQ. "FOMO" for AI growth is still strong, making NUSI a favorable choice for investors looking to capitalize on technology stocks.

NUSI: Cashing QQQ For Smart Growth Income Rotation

With fewer and fewer stocks leading the stock market higher and higher, market concentration has reached extreme levels - last observed during the Great Depression. In an indication of macroeconomic weakness, small-caps and cyclical sectors are not participating in the ongoing bull run, and poor market breadth signals classic late-cycle behavior. Given that mega-cap tech stocks make up more than half of QQQ ETF, a mean reversion trade propelled by an impending earnings slowdown could cause havoc in QQQ.

QQQ: Beware The Concentration Bubble

With a more than 52% weight to tech stocks as of July 3, the Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX) is rightly viewed as a tech-heavy index. However, investors should not ignore the gauge's exposure to the communication services sector – a tech-esque group in its own right.

Don't Forget This Sector's Contributions to QQQ Success

BNY Mellon High Yield Beta ETF

iShares MSCI New Zealand ETF

Goldman Sachs Defensive Equity Etf

Tema Global Royalties ETF

iShares Large Cap Max Buffer Jun ETF

Innovator Equity Defined Protection ETF - 2 Yr to July 2026

Innovator Equity Defined Protection ETF - 6 Mo Jan/Jul

Innovator Equity Defined Protection ETF - 1 Yr July

Innovator Premium Income 9 Buffer ETF - July

Allianzim US Equity Buffer15 Uncapped Jul ETF

Innovator Premium Income 15 Buffer ETF - July

Innovator Nasdaq-100 10 Buffer ETF - Quarterly

TrueShares Quarterly Bear Hedge ETF

TrueShares Quarterly Bull Hedge ETF

SMI 3Fourteen Full-Cycle Trend ETF

This week opened with a deluge of 15 new ETFs on Monday, with only a single launch occurring after that. Perhaps the most notable of the debuts was the first buffer ETF from iShares.

This Week in ETFs: iShares Debuts Buffer ETF with 100% Protection

Investors poured $406.1 billion into ETFs in the first half of 2024, double of $200.6 billion recorded in the year-ago period. U.S. equity ETFs led the way higher with $223.1 billion in inflows.

5 ETFs That Witnessed Huge Capital Inflows in 1H

TMFC offers exposure to 100 stocks that The Motley Fool, LLC's analysts are bullish on. TMFC has solidly benefited from the growth-style rally, as it has beaten IVV and QQQ this year. However, it has underperformed QQQ and SCHG over February 2018–June 2024. Regarding the factor mix, it has a bit stronger growth characteristics than QQQ, as well as slightly more appealing quality.

TMFC: A Few Advantages Over QQQ Come With Burdensome Expenses

First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge Green Energy Index Fund

Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF

SPDR S&P Transportation ETF

July is historically an upbeat month for the S&P 500 - here are some of our top ETF picks to ride the heat wave.

Stocks Often Pop in July: Time to Buy These 4 ETFs?

The technology sector was the biggest winner in the first half of the year. Much of that bullishness was attributable to AI and semiconductor equities.

Software Stocks Could Be Super for These ETFs

SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF

The S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average (Dow), and Nasdaq Composite are all stock market indexes used to measure the performance of various aspects of the U.S. stock market. The indexes generally rise and fall together.

The S&P 500, Dow & Nasdaq Since Their 2000 Highs as of June 2024

iShares PHLX Semiconductor ETF

SPDR Portfolio High Yield Bond ETF

iShares TIPS Bond ETF

During LSEG Lipper's fund flows week that ended June 26, 2024, investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets for the eighth week in 10, adding a net $14.3 billion. Both active and passive fixed income funds saw inflows. Passively managed fixed income funds have recorded four consecutive weekly inflows. Municipal bond conventional funds returned a negative 0.27% over the fund flows week, giving the subgroup its first weekly loss in four.

U.S. Weekly Fund Flows Insight Report: Equity ETFs Attract $20.9 Billion, Largest Weekly Intake Of 2024

iShares China Large-Cap ETF

iShares Silver Trust

Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3x Shares

ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ

ProShares UltraPro QQQ

Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund

We have highlighted 10 ETFs that have seen higher average volumes in the second quarter and are thus the top 10 funds in terms of trading volume.

10 Most Heavily Traded ETFs of Q2

The Nasdaq Composite Index outperformed in the first half of 2024, gaining about 18%. We have highlighted the five best-performing stocks of QQQ this year that led the way higher in the portfolio.

5 Stocks That Powered Nasdaq ETF in the First Half

Market experts have long opined on the benefits of diversification. More recently, many of them have called attention to increasing concentration risk in some previously diverse broad market equity gauges.

Concentration Risk May Be Overhyped

The Invesco QQQ Trust ETF has experienced a sharp +40% price jump since October, lacking material fundamental reasons for the advance. The Big Tech market rally seems to be based on hopes for future AI efficiency gains, not dramatic business growth or lower interest rates.

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