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Mutual Funds vs. Youtual Funds
an illustrated example
Boring old mutual funds |
Revolutionary new Youtual Funds |
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| Created by |
A handful of large financial institutions, creating generic investments for the masses. |
Thousands of smart people with thousands of ideas, all over the world. |
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| What happens when you buy a share |
Your brokerage account will buy one share of the mutual fund. It's like owning one share of a business ... which itself owns many different stocks. It's like being a partner in the business. |
Your brokerage account will buy lots of different stocks directly. Your account owns these shares, cutting out the middle man. |
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| How you make money trading them |
The value of the stocks in the mutual fund's "coffers" go up, making the value of each mutual fund share go up. |
The shares held in your brokerage account rise in value. |
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| Invented when |
1902 |
Uh, what year is it? |
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| Key characteristic |
Bad breath |
General hotness |
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YoutualFunds are not real securities. If you choose to "trade them," you will actually be using our software technology to have self-directed trades placed in your brokerage account so that your account follows non-personalized trading and portfolio-allocation advice published on this Web site. You can lose money following YoutualFunds trading advice.
Results are based on simulated or hypothetical performance results that have certain inherent limitations. Unlike the results shown in an actual performance record, these results do not represent actual trading. Also, because these trades have not actually been executed, these results may have under-or over-compensated for the impact, if any, of certain market factors, such as lack of liquidity. Simulated or hypothetical trading programs in general are also subject to the fact that they are designed with the benefit of hindsight. No representation is being made that any account will or is likely to achieve profits or losses similar to these being shown.
In addition, hypothetical trading does not involve financial risk, and no hypothetical trading record can completely account for the impact of financial risk in actual trading. For example, the ability to withstand losses or to adhere to a particular trading program in spite of trading losses are material points which can also adversely affect actual trading results. There are numerous other factors related to the markets in general or to the implementation of any specific trading program, which cannot be fully accounted for in the preparation of hypothetical performance results and all of which can adversely affect actual trading results.
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