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Russell 2000
Index Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) & Tracking Stocks
The Russell
2000 Index was created in 1984 by Frank Russell Company and was designed
to track the performance of small-cap companies. Russell 2000 Index
ETF (Exchange
Traded Fund), trading exclusively at the AMEX
Exchange, make it simple to participate in the small-cap market.
The popularity of
the Russell 2000 as a small-cap benchmark leads to four fundamental
reasons for using RUT options:
Exchange Traded Funds
(ETFs) & iShares
About Russell
2000 Index Funds & ETFs
Investors are able to trade a broad market by making one Russell
2000 Index ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) trading decision rather than
making the many decisions involved with investing in numerous individual
stocks.
Insurance
Russell 2000 Index ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) offer a convenient and
easy way to help reduce the market risk of a broad market portfolio
of many small-cap stocks, without disrupting the make-up of the portfolio.
Leverage
Purchasing Russell
2000 Index ETFs, instead of buying or selling thousands of individual
stocks, provides an investor with an additional opportunity to use investment
capital elsewhere. For a relatively small percentage gain in the underlying
index, a Russell 2000 Index ETFs can increase in value by a multiple
of that gain.
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