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Maximizing your strategy with Fidelity.com
MICHAEL POLLOCK:
Good day, everybody. My name is Michael Pollock; I am the
regional brokerage consultant for Fidelity investments out in
the California bay area, based in Palo Alto, and support all of
northern California. A big part of my role here at Fidelity as
a regional brokerage consultant is to help support our self-
directed clients. Myself and my team, we help support clients
with strategy on individual stocks, options, exchange-traded
funds, individual bonds, as well as all the tools and the
platforms that Fidelity provides our clients to go in and
interact with those different products in the marketplace. So
today, we’re actually going to be covering some of those
products. I’ve been in the industry almost 20 years now. I
came to Fidelity back in 2003. I’m going to share the agenda
here with everybody. We’re going to start on Fidelity.com, on
one of our demo accounts, where we will look at some of our
stock research tools, as well as our ETF research tools and then
we’ll do a quick introduction to Active Trader Pro, which is our
trading platform. And this will just be a quick introduction.
All right, so let me start the screenshare here on Fidelity.com.
We’re just logged into a demo account here on Fidelity.com, but
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it’s on the start page, which should look familiar to any
Fidelity clients out there. Most of what we’re going to cover
today will be under the news and research tab right on the very
top of the screen.
So, Fidelity.com, this is just from the homepage, or the initial
start-up page, right? Account summary, which we (inaudible) to
“news and research.” We can go down here to “markets and
sectors.” And so what the “markets and sectors” page will do is
it’ll give you an idea of what’s going on in the market today.
So we can see here a global view. So we can see what’s going on
here in the US and North America. We can see how Europe did, as
well as Asia. And then when those markets reopen, we’ll see
those update again. And then on the corner here on the right,
this is all about the US market and all the different sectors.
So this will show you a breakdown of just today; it’s a very
short data point; but just today so far, what are the sectors
doing? What does sector rotation look like? So we can see
today, you know, healthcare is down and add some other sectors
like Industrial, up. You know, the brighter red it is, the more
it’s down; the brighter green it is, the more it’s up. If it’s
just black it means it’s pretty flat. And then on top of here
you can click on research sectors and industries. And when we
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do that, we’ll get into more research screens. The first one
here, just a real basic screen here that shows the sectors
again, some performance. You can chart out performance from
here as well. You can click on the performance tab, which will
actually blow this up to as far as ten years’ worth of
performance on all the major 11 sectors in the US market.
“Industry” will give you all the subsectors. So these’ll be all
the subsectors of the 11 sectors. You can get, you know, a ton
of data on here.
Next is going to be “weighting recommendations.” And this is
another great spot of the site. For weighting recommendations,
again, we’re looking at the 11 US sectors of the market, and we
have three analyst firms that we use that will give us their
opinions on those different sectors currently. You may think
that -- are they bullish on this sector? If so, they’ll say
“overweight.” Are they negative on this sector? If so, they’ll
say “underweight.” And if they’re neutral on the sector,
they’ll say “market weight.” So on the left-hand side here we
can see the 11 sectors of the market, and the current weighting
in the US market. So the US market, or most indexes, are going
to be market-weighted. So as the companies are getting larger
and larger, so technology is the largest here. So it has Apple,
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and Google, and Facebook are growing. They become a bigger
portion of the overall market. So technology right now is the
largest. So if they say “market weight,” that means for your US
equities, about 21 percent is right. If they say “overweight,”
that means we’re actually pretty bullish on the sector, so you
can have a little extra exposure to that sector because we think
it will do well. It will outperform. You have three PDFs here.
Each of these will outline the investment thesis that each of
these firms use when they come up with these recommendations.
And then the other neat thing here as well is you can click on
their actual recommendation and that will bring up a report. So
here’s the Argus PDF report on why they have an overweight on
technology. And so you can print those out; you can make them
larger, easier to read right there on the screen as well. And
then the other neat thing that you can do from here is you can
actually click on any of these sectors to get into more research
on the sector. We’ll look at that here in a second. Before we
do that, let’s jump to the next tab here, which is the business
cycle tab.
At Fidelity, we’re constantly watching the business cycle in the
US and on the international markets to get an idea of where the
different markets are in their economy. We’ve got a link here
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to the February report. We update these monthly. And you can
go through this report and the nice thing here is we’ll show you
where the US is in the business cycle as well as the other major
economies. And you can go through here and you can read what’s
going on in the US, what part of the cycle we’re in, what we
think that means. So now we think we’re in late cycle, although
we don’t see recession risks being high right now either. So
then you have good information that’s very timely here. But
like I said, this will update next week with the March report,
so take a look for that. And then down below, again, we have
the 11 sectors. And what this is showing us here is you have
historically what sectors have performed best in the different
market cycles, right, so we’re in late cycle now. What
historically has done well in the late cycle? So that’s going
to be areas like energy, healthcare, and materials. And then if
we did roll into recession, what could most likely hold up
versus what will most likely not hold up. If we want to then
research any of these sectors just like any of the other pages,
you know, so healthcare looks good for late session. We can
click on healthcare. And you can do this from any of these
screens, wherever you see the name of the sector. It’s always a
hyperlink. So if we click on healthcare, now we’re getting into
a screen that’s going to give us research on healthcare. So
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right off the bat here we’ve got a chart comparing healthcare
for one year versus the S&P 500. You can change your benchmark
indexes. You can change the timeframe here. We can go down and
we can look at fundamentals for the entire healthcare sector.
And then we’ll have larger news stories from the healthcare
sector, and then research reports that we have from those third-
party providers on the healthcare sector. And then on the top
right here we have “Fidelity Research.” That mentions
healthcare as well. So these could be market updates that will
also include information on healthcare. Once you’re done
looking at healthcare, you can also break it down by industries,
right? So industries are going to be those subsectors. So what
is healthcare actually comprised of? So healthcare is made up
of all these different subsectors: biotech, healthcare
equipment, providers, technology, life sciences,
pharmaceuticals, et cetera. So now we can go; we can look at
how the different areas have done over different time frames.
And then, let’s say we’re interested in biotech, right? We can
just click in one of the subsectors, and now we’re going to
start the research over again but from the subsector level. So
now we’re analyzing biotech versus S&P. Fundamentals for the
biotech sector, bigger news stories for biotech, and then
research supports geared towards biotech. And then the last
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half that you’ll have here is defined investments tab. And what
this is going to show you here is, you know, let’s say that
you’ve gone through your research and you’ve determined “OK, you
know what? Yep, this is the subsector I want, or the sector.”
You can also do this from the sector level. Then we can find
ways to look for stocks, exchange-rated funds, or mutual funds
to invest in. When you pull up stocks, it’s just simply running
a quick screen of what biotechs are performing the best today.
When you go to “exchange-traded funds,” this is going to sort
out biotech exchange-traded funds, or exchange-traded funds with
exposure to biotech, based upon size. So the largest ones on
top based on how much assets they have under management. And if
you see the logos here, that means it’s going to be a
commission-free exchange traded fund, so you can buy these
exchange-traded funds with no commission. And if it has the
star here, that means it’s actually a Fidelity created exchange-
traded fund. And then you can also go here and do the same
thing with mutual funds. And so here will be mutual funds that
focus in on biotechnology. All right, again, that was all under
“news and research” and then “markets and sectors,” and one of
my favorite spots to go when I’m doing research on Fidelity.com.
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All right, next let’s look at some of these stock screening
tools and stock research tools that we have on the website. So
to access these, I’m going to go here, “news and research” and
then up to “stocks.” And when you select that, that’s going to
bring us into the stock research center, which is a really good
area to go to get information on individual stocks. And you’ll
see here, right of the bat, we’ll break it down again into the
11 sectors of the US market. And what we’re looking at here is
-- we use a score here to rate stocks. We use 10 different
outside analysts that will all give us opinions on different
stocks from buy, to hold, to sell. And then we use a company
actually based in San Francisco called StarMine, and a lot of
people call them the analyst of the analysts. And what they’re
going to do is they’re going to actually look at the research
from all of these firms, and then give it a weighted score based
on the analysts that have had the most success calling that
sector for the past two years. So we’ll dig into that in a
little bit more deeper in a little bit, but you’ll see here we
have a quick screen where we are looking at each sector and then
the top-rated company for the sector. And then the number of
bullets, stocks rated in each sector. So some sectors, like
utilities, for example, right now there are no bullish-rated
stocks, while other sectors, like technology, have 26. So if
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you want to see these stocks, we can just click right here on
“26 stocks,” and that will bring us into the screening tool and
run a quick screen for us looking at technology sector and
narrowing it down by the most bullishly rated stocks and
technology currently. And this is constantly updated. If you
check this tomorrow, and it’s possible, if there was a -- if
someone got downgraded, for example, that they won't be on this
list anymore. So it’s always updated in real time. And you’ll
see here, we’re looking at 26 stocks that are going to be very
bullish rated in technology. And this screen tool is really
neat. I would say this is probably one of the most
underutilized tools that we have in Fidelity.com when it comes
to stock research. It does take a little while to get used to
this tool. But let’s say, for example, we wanted to look at how
these different stocks have been performing. All right, we can
switch over to the performance tab, and here we can look at
performance on them. We can re-sort any of these columns to re-
sort this list and dice it up any way that we want. From here,
you can select several stocks and then compare them. So you can
click right here to take action and you can compare different
stocks together. Or, what I would prefer to do, is just look at
them individually, right? So if I want to look at Accenture, I
can just click on the ticker. It’s going to bring up the
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research for that particular stock. This is the research page
for individual stocks. And on this page here, you’ll see on the
very top level, we’ve got all the information for the stock. We
can see what it’s currently trading at, the day range, the 52-
week range, right? So we see it’s actually right on top if we
do two-week range right now you can confirm that. Here is a
one-year chart. Right down below we can look at things here,
like today’s volume, average volume, PE ratio, peg ratio. You
know, if it’s a dividend-paying stock, what the dividend yield
is, right? So this one pays 1.65 percent dividend yield. The
ex-dividend date was yesterday on the 10th. And we can see here
it’s rated very bullish, 9.6, and the stock is up 16.4 percent
over the last one year. We’ve got charts here that we can play
with. We can look at -- you know, defaults here are two-year
chart. We can look at ten years on it. You can go in here and
change the time frame on these different charts to [assorted
introdite?], or as long as max. Max will give you everything
that we have on that particular issue. A news window. So
here’s that equity summary scores. I hit on this a little bit,
but let’s look at this in more detail. So the nice thing with
this research page is you have all these boxes, but you can
expand them if you want to get more information. So we really
want to dig in “OK, how does this have such a very bullish
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score?” We can click on “more” in the top, right corner, and we
can see how this score came about. Like I mentioned, so we have
ten analysts here covering the stock. So some are outperformed,
some are buy, some are neutral. It looks like nothing negative
here, just a few neutrals. And then this is the StarMine score,
so in order to get this score, what StarMine is doing is it’s
taking all this information, putting it in a black box. It’s
looking at each of these different firms and how well they did
covering technology for the past two years. The firms that have
done the best job covering technology, like Zacks, their current
recommendation is going to have a higher weighting on this score
right here. So they’ve got them at an outperform. The next two
have them at a bias, so that’s -- the top performers are all
very bullish, which is pushing the score higher. The score here
is designed to look like a bell curve. You know, the neutral
range is all the way from three to seven. So most companies are
going to fall somewhere within neutral, with fewer companies
falling in the bearish and very bearish range, and fewer
companies falling in the very bullish to bullish range. So
these 10 analysts that we use here, these are third-party,
independent analysts. These are not investment banks. These
are not firms that are trying to underwrite a new bond issue
with these different companies that they’re rating. They are
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not trading house accounts where there could be some conflict in
what they’re actually trading and what they’re going at and
recommending to the public. These firms make their money by
creating research and selling it. So Fidelity, we’re one of
their customers; we buy their research; and then we share this
with anyone that has a Fidelity account. Down below here, you
could see other analysts, so not just the analyst that Fidelity
uses, but here you can see, you know, what the investment banks
have it rated at as well. You have a little histogram here so
you can see if they’ve been changing their opinion. Like
Columbine, for example. They’ve gone from bullish to neutral,
back and forth several times while others have just been on a
buy. Over on the right-hand side here, you’ll have links to the
firm’s most recent research reports. My favorite report on
these is the Argus Analyst Report. You can click right here on
the date and that will bring it up. This is going to be the
most complete report generally that we have on every individual
equity. Most of the larger companies will have the Argus
report. Some of them are just one-page, computer-driven models.
The Argus report is actually written by real analysts and you’ve
got a lot of really good information in here, and they’re very
timely. They’re usually updated after an earnings announcement
where a lot of new information has been released, or they’ll be
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updated maybe after a big product announcement or something
potentially that’s market-moving. So this one was just updated
at the end of March, you can see right after earnings on the
28th. And the nice thing, too, with Argus is that they’ll also
give you price targets, right? So the stock right now is around
175, and they’ve got a target of 200 on it. So you can go
through; they’ll give you their opinion as well their targets,
and then an actual investment thesis. You can go through here
and see, you know, why do they like this company? Why do they
currently have it at a buy? And you can go through here and
read all about this recent developments, all the fundamental
information, the different notes from the analyst, and then
comparing it to its competitors here as well. So these are
really great reports that you can go through and look at. And
this is just a company that we randomly pulled up just because
it happened to be at the top of the screening page, but you can
see lots of good examples like this as you’re going through your
research.
All right, so that is a little bit there on the stock screener.
So now we access the stock screener. Let’s do that again real
quick. Right, we went to “news and research,” “stocks.” That
brought us into the stock research center. And then we just
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clicked right here, from technology to see the bullish,
(inaudible) technology companies. That’s one way to get into
the screener. There’s many other ways to do it. We can go over
here on the left and you’ll see screen and filter, and we can
just click right here on the stock screeners and that will bring
us right into the stock screening page. So from here, you can
just hit the blue button, “start a screen,” or if you’re looking
for something very specific, you can narrow it down sometimes on
the right-hand side. This will be common areas that people are
screening for. But let’s just hit “start a screen” and I’ll
show you some other ways that you can get some prebuilt screens,
and of course you can also go in and build your own screens. So
what I usually recommend clients as they’re learning this -- and
the reason I think this page is a little underutilized is
there’s a bit of a learning curve on this page. You know, you
really need to sit down with this page, give yourself at least,
you know, 10, 15 minutes to sit down and really play with it and
get an idea of how it works, but once you do, it becomes really
powerful. But you can go right here, for example, under “add
criteria” and you can hit “view all.” This will show you
everything that you can screen for in the marketplace. So
you’re starting with a market of, you know, well over 5,000
stocks, and then you can narrow them down very specifically by
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looking at things like “basic company facts,” “dividend
information,” “earnings information,” you know, “fundamentals
for management and growth,” “valuations,” “PE ratios,”
“performance numbers,” “volatility numbers,” “beta,” “trading
characteristics.” So there’s a lot you can narrow it down from.
Well, like I said, initially it can be intimidating, so we have
a couple areas here to help you get going. So for example, we
have “themes.” The themes are pretty neat, so if you want to go
in and maybe look for companies that could benefit from -- that
are working on artificial intelligence. That’s a built-in theme
right now, 3D printing, you know, drone companies, robotics,
software services, mobile payments, FinTechs, so lots of these
different areas that can really be changing the way that we do
business in the future. So the themes are really neat to play
with and then there’s also strategies that are prebuilt. So
these strategies -- many, many years ago we went to the
different analyst firms that we’re using, and we said “hey, we
built this amazing screening tool. What would you look for if
you were using the screening tool?” And you can go in here, for
example, and you can look at, (inaudible) growth, for example.
And so these are going to be different prebuilt screens that the
analysts have built for us. This one here is powered by Zacks.
And it’s looking for dividend growers. So we can say “oh, let’s
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take a look at this one here.” And you can just select it and
it’s going to put it right into your screener for you, and on
the very top here, it’ll give you an idea. You know, what is
this strategy? Why did they create it? And you can go through
here, read more about the strategy as well as some things to
watch out for, you know, what might pop up on here that we need
to be a little bit leery of, and then a summary of the strategy.
And then here are the results. So this strategy here has
produced 10 results. And you can see these are companies with
dividend yields. The dividends have been growing positively,
even for the last five-year average. And we’re looking here at
earnings per share. So earnings growth has also been rising.
We can see the PE ratios right here, right? And the neat thing
too is you can see how they’ve narrowed it down. So they are
looking for dividend growers that are not necessarily too
expensive. So they’re looking at PE ratios that max out at 20.
So, maybe -- you know what, I’m OK going a little higher than
that. Maybe I’m OK going up to, say, 25 on a PE ratio. You can
go in here and you can adjust that. You can manually change
that to 25. We can see here the market median for PE ratios in
the US right now is 16.4. So we can switch it here to 25. It’s
going to rerun. And there. Didn’t find any more. We’re still
at 10. Let’s go a little higher, see if we can get this to
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change. Let’s go up to 30. All right, so going up to 30, we
picked up two more dividend players. But so the neat thing here
is you can start with a prebuilt strategy from an expert and
then you can go in and you can tweak it as well to something
you’re looking for. OK? So they’re looking for dividend yield
between five percent and higher, and maybe you’re look “you know
what, I’m OK going down to 4 percent dividend yield.” You can
again readjust it. You know, now we’ve picked up a few more.
Now we’re up to 17 companies. So you can really go in here and
make these your own screens. And then, once you’ve done that,
you can even save it. So you can go here, save it to your own
screen, and then you can name it. You know, so you can name
this, you know, “Michael’s Dividend Growers” now that I’ve
tweaked it a little bit. And then save it. And then whenever
you come back to this screen, you can just go up to the top
right corner under “my screens” and this will pull up everything
that you’ve saved. And you just click on them and then it will
run it for you right at that time. So that is the stock
screening tool. Really, really neat tool. Highly recommend if
you are into individual equities that you go in and give it a
shot.
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Now, a lot of clients these days are saying “hey, you know what?
I don’t have time to go into individual equities. I prefer to
just use exchange-traded funds. Let me just index and build out
a portfolio with exchange-traded funds.” Not quite as much work
is going through and trying to build out an individual stock
portfolio. So no problem at all. We can do something very
similar with exchange-traded funds. So we can go here under
“news and research,” and then we can go here to “exchange-traded
funds.” And it’s opening up our ETF research center. And this
is, again, really a neat page here, especially if you are into
exchange-traded funds. For those of you not familiar, exchange-
traded funds, they are going to be -- if you’re familiar with
mutual funds -- so mutual funds come in really two main flavors:
actively managed or index. So the bulk of exchange-traded funds
are index funds. You know, well over 95 percent of exchange-
traded funds are index funds. So think of an index mutual fund,
where you’ve got an exchange rate of -- where you’ve got a fund
that’s just designed to track a benchmark. They don’t have a
management team trying to go in and outperform the benchmark.
They’re just trying to track it. But, unlike an index mutual
fund, exchange-traded funds trade on the exchange, right? So
they trade on the exchange right next to stocks, so the same way
stocks do. So the benefit there is you can trade them intraday.
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You don’t have to wait until the end of the day pricing to get
your buy or sell executed. You can buy at the market open and
you can sell 30 minutes later. All the tools that you have for
equities you can use on exchange-traded funds. So limit orders,
good until cancel orders, stop orders are all available. So a
lot more flexibility with exchange-traded funds for the index
investors than through index mutual funds. And the other major
advantage too is you don’t have the holding period. Most mutual
funds will require that you hold the stock for a certain amount
of time, or else there could be a penalty. With exchange traded
fund there’s no holding period. So they’ve become extremely
popular with our self-directed clients. But so from this page
here, you can also go in and look. The market now, there’s
thousands of exchange-traded funds available in the US. We have
well over 350 currently that you can trade commission-free on
our platform, which is a huge benefit. You don’t pay your buy
commissions when you trade these exchange-traded funds, so you
can search for those quite easily. The bulk of these, well over
300 come from iShares. They are the market leader in exchange-
traded funds, so we have partnered with them. They own about 40
percent of the exchange traded fund market. The reason why
they’re so large is that they really own the institutional side
of the business, so that when professional money managers are
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using exchange-traded funds, they are pretty much exclusively
going through iShares. So these are really some of the best of
(inaudible) exchange-traded funds. But we can just click right
here under an ETF screener for right on iShares, for example,
and this will let us look through all the iShare’s commission-
free ETFs to find some ETF ideas. The first one here, this is
the iShare’s Core. So think of these as building blocks to
build a portfolio. You can look for ETFs that focus on income.
So maybe you’re in retirement and you need to pull income out of
the portfolio, but you don’t want drawn-out principle. You can
find income-producing investments international, right? A lot
of our clients based here in the US usually are quite
underweight international. So this could be a way to get some
international exposure. Factor ETFs, also known as smart beta,
so they’re still index funds but they are working on a smart
index. So they’ll have some sort of rules, or algorithm that
they’ll rebalance too periodically, whether it’s an annual, or
semi-annual, or quarterly. Sectors, so if you want to focus in
on certain sector, like we were looking at healthcare and
technology before. You can find ETFs that focus on those
sectors. So instead of going and trying to find a handful of
the perfect technology companies, we can just look for an ETF
that will invest in technology companies for us. And then
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sustainable ETFs. These have become quite popular in my neck of
the woods, here in the bay area. So these are going to be
looking for companies that are a little bit lean, a little bit
more on the greener side within their sectors. A little bit
more balanced on their boards and ideally are a little bit
better to their employees than the average companies. Let’s
look here at the Core first. So we can just click right here on
the Core box. And what you’ll see here is this is going to
bring us into the screening tool, which looks very familiar now,
right? So really it’s the same back end as our stock screening
tool. But now we’re looking at exchange-traded funds. Let’s
just see our ETFs slash ETP. So “ETF” stands for “exchange-
traded fund.” We love acronyms in this industry. “ETP” just
stands for “exchange-traded product.” So sometimes you’ll have
a closed-end fund, for example, or a partnership that look and
trade just like an ETF, and so we’ll include those in here as
well. This here is going to be broken down by size. So the
largest of the Core ETFs will be on top, largest under --
measure-by-assets under management how much is invested in those
exchange-traded funds. You’ll see here things like the S&P 500.
We’ve got international; we’ve got emerging, bonds, mid-cap,
small-cap; we’ve got total market. So these are all different
ETFs that we can look at. And again, these are the cores. So
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clients will use these to build out the base of a portfolio,
right? So if we want to build a diversified balance portfolio,
right, we’re going to have an allegation to US equities, an
allocation to international equities, and then an allocation
into bonds. So we have all of those tools here to build out
that core portfolio. Let’s look at the US equities first. So
here’s an example. Here are the total US market, ITOT. So you
can click on this one here. This will bring you into the ETF
research page, right? Looks very similar to the stock research
page we looked at before, except now all this information is on
this exchange-traded fund. We can see here, this one, you can
buy commission-free. We’ve got the buy and sell right here on
the top of the research page. We can see here, your previous
close, the day range, 52-week range, today’s volume, average
volume on this ETF. Net assets, there’s almost 20 billion
invested in this one ETF. The yield, so this one is kicking at
1.86 percent yield. The expense ratio, you have a .03. Any
time you’re looking at indexing, right, indexing is usually a
lot less expensive than the active-managed funds just because
you don’t have that team that you’re going out and paying for,
so they are going to be easier to run. Performance numbers
here, then you’ve got the boxes down below just like we had on
individual stocks, but these are going to be different boxes,
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right? So what is it holding? You can go here under “see more”
under the profile of what is it holding. And on top here,
you’ll see the objective of the exchange-traded fund. You know,
what benchmark is it trying to cover. Right, so this one here
is primarily the US. We’ll see the sector breakdown, right? So
very similar to the S&P 500 breakdown of companies. Technology,
healthcare, financial’s the largest. Here will be your top ten
holdings, and this one here is very diversified because it’s
total market. So you’ll see there’s 3,233 companies in this one
ETF. So, I mean, talk about diversification within the US. One
trade with no commission gets you access to over 3,200
companies. This one’s so diversified the top ten is only 17.18
percent of this ETF. Smaller ETFs, the top ten could represent
50% of the entire ETF quite easily. Here are the subsectors.
You know, software, or bank’s IT. Market cap, so this one being
total market is primarily large-cap, but then you do get some
mid-cap, some small-cap, and some micro-cap. So a little bit
different look than say an S&P 500 ETF, where you only have 500
of the largest companies. So a little bit more diversified
there than just the S&P 500, which of course is an option as
well here, through IVV. So that is one example of how to go
through screen for exchange-traded funds and then go in and
research them. So we were just looking at the core there. You
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can hit “clear all” right here. And then you can go in and you
can look again, right? SO we can go here; we looked at “core,”
but maybe I’m interested in a couple different sectors. Right,
if you click on “sectors,” now it’s going to sort the list by
the different sector ETFs. Again, sort of by holdings. So here
we can see things like technology, real estate, global
infrastructure, financials, expanded technology, mortgage real
estate. So you can see here lots of different sectors, energy,
telecom. So lots to choose from, 46 here, just for all the
different breakdowns of different sectors, both US and
international. And then again, of course, on the ETF screener,
just like on the stock screener, you can just start from scratch
if you want. You can go here to “view all,” for example, and
these are all the different ways that you can sort through the
world of several thousand exchange-traded funds and narrow them
down into a manageable list of ETFs to go through and research.
So that’s the ETF screening tool.
All right, so that will conclude the Fidelity.com research piece
of the presentation. Now what I wanted to do is jump in to the
trading platform, which is called Active Trader Pro. Active
Trader Pro is software that you download. You can download it
from Fidelity.com. The easiest way to do that, Active Trader
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Pro or ATP for short. If you just type in “ATP” in the search
field and then hit “enter,” that will search for Active Trader
Pro, or ATP. And then you’ll see right here, Active Trader Pro,
right on top. You can select that and this will bring you into
a page where you can download Active Trader Pro and also learn
about what you can do on Active Trader Pro. So Active Trader
Pro, it’s a trading software. You can download -- it works on
computers so you can download this on a PC or a Mac computer.
Laptop, desktop, doesn’t matter. Just hit the blue button here;
download it like you would any other program. Once that
download is complete, if it’s a PC, it’ll put a green Fidelity
logo on your desktop, which you can click, and that will prep
the program. If you download this onto a Mac, it will put that
same logo under Launchpad, and then from Launchpad you can just
pin it to your control panel or your toolbar down at the bottom.
And then when you open them, they’ll bring up a user ID and a
password, and it’s just going to be the same user ID and the
same password that you use when you use when you log into
Fidelity.com. Once you’ve logged in, it will walk you through
an introduction screen where it’ll have you set up your color
theme, sizing, default, trading account, et cetera. So this is
a demo account here that I’ve tweaked to how I like to use it.
I prefer the white background; I just find it a lot easier to
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use than the darker backgrounds. The main benefit here of
Active Trader Pro is going to be the amount of data that you can
see on the screen at one time, and then the customization of the
platform. So everything on here is customizable. So it’s not
necessarily that you’re getting different data than you get on
Fidelity.com; it’s just how it’s all presented. So, for
example, here we’ve got a watchlist running; we’ve got a news
window; we’ve got order status, some detailed quote windows, and
two charts. So here’s a one-year chart, and then here’s a
intraday chart, all running at the same time. And it’s also
streaming. So you’ll see here, these numbers are all streaming.
The charts moving with the market. So that is really the
biggest difference between Fidelity.com and Active Trader Pro,
the amount of data that you can have running on the screen at
one time. For example, in Fidelity.com, if you want your order
status, order status is going to take up the entire page. If
you go to your watchlist, the watchlist is going to take up the
whole page. But here we can have it all running right next to
each other. So that’s a huge benefit. And then the amount of
customization you can do. You can go here into “settings,” for
example. You can go here into “general.” You can go in here
and then you can go into “order status” for example, and you can
color code your orders. So you can have “open orders” as green,
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“filled orders” as red. You know, everything on here is
customizable. You can go here and you can even customize your
news. So if there’s certain news that comes through the
newswire, if there’s certain companies that you don’t like, you
can uncheck those feeds, and those feeds won't come through
anymore. So you can do quite a bit here with the news. So
that’s part of the main benefits of Active Trader Pro. Next
you’ll see here, so we’ve got our watchlist. You can also link
everything together so we’re looking at the Qs, the Nasdaq 100.
Let’s say we just want to look at a company. I’ll just use
Apple as an example. We can go here; I can double click on the
quote here for apple, and look, it’s going to put it right into
my charts for me. So I’ve got a one-year chart on apple, an
intraday chart on apple. Down here we’ve got the detailed quote
on apple where we can see things like next earnings dates, ex-
dividend dates, PE ratios, all right here. Then we’ve got the
news running down here below as well, all updating. You want a
place to trade? Super simple, just right click in here and
you’ve got access to the buy and sell buttons. You click on
that; that’ll bring up a trade, and you can place your trade
very quickly, very easily from here. So very, very efficient
from a time standpoint. You can preload trade preferences so
it’ll have the number of shares you like to trade, the order
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types that you like to select, just all these little things that
will help you in executing everything quicker. On the chart in
here, you can go in, you have access to all the different
indicators. So these are all different indicators that you can
add to your charts. You have to know there’s an absolute ton on
here. There’s a search field too, so if we wanted to go in and
add the Mac D for example, but I don’t want to go through that
huge list, I can just type it in the search field. It’ll find
it for me; I can select it; and it’s going to add it right there
into this (inaudible) automatically. So very, very quick, very
efficient. From here, you also have the help section. So help
topics is essentially an online user manual built right into the
software. So you can pull that up and you’re going to have a
legend here, where you can go through and figure out exactly
what area that you want to look at as far as what do you need
help with. Do you need help with the alerts, with the layouts,
with trading, managing the portfolios, options, idea generators?
You can find all that information right here from “help.”
There’s also things to know about Active Trader Pro, so you
know, hidden gems, for example. A good one, frequently asked
questions, links here into the Learning Center as well. You
know, videos here on how to get started with the platform, how
to trade on the platform, how to do option trading on the
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platform, trade builders, summaries, et cetera. So, a lot of
helpful features built right into the platform as well to make
it easy to jump in and start using the platform. One area that
we added about two years ago is the real-time analytics. So
this is neat here. This will search through your portfolio as
well as your watch list, so basically looking for different
stocks that you’re following or stocks that you own, and it’ll -
- just noticing some real time that you might have missed. So
for example, today Netflix experienced a volume spike over the
past 30 minutes. So you can go in there and pull up a chart on
Netflix and see what’s going on, or a quote on it, see why it’s
moving. Akamai just hit a new 26-week high. Here was a Mac D
crossover to the downside. So you can see all types of
information here. And if there are certain things you don’t
really care about, like “oh, I don’t care about a 26-week high
or low, just tell me about 52-week high and lows.” You can even
uncheck these different areas if there are certain events that
you don’t want to be notified about. So you have, again, a lot
of customization in here and a lot of newer tools. We’ll have a
feedback link. So you can click right here and then let us know
what you think about the tool, or a way that we could
potentially prove it, and that feedback goes right to our
developers, and they actually do take a look at that and we are
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constantly evolving the platform, improving it, and a lot of
those improvements will come directly from customer feedback.
So if we have a lot of customers asking for a certain feature,
we’ll go and incorporate that into the platform.
All right, so that concludes the Action Trader Pro portion.
Thank you again to everyone for joining today. It was a
pleasure spending the hour with you, going through the different
tools that we have at Fidelity, and I’m sure that more of you
have more questions, so please feel free to reach out. We are
here to help you out.
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