The Top 3 Stocks in the Top ETF

I’m generally not an ETF guy. There are exceptions, of course, but you have to own all of the stocks in an ETF – including the laggards. It’s better to own just the best stocks. I will say that ETFs are great proxies of what’s going on in the market and certain sectors. That’s why I track a bunch of them closely. ETFs help me identify areas of strength in the market and where Big Money is flowing. They can also be great sources of investing ideas. Drilling down into the strongest ETFs, we can pinpoint the top stocks in the funds – and leave the slackers behind.