{"id":12171,"date":"2011-03-16T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=12171"},"modified":"2016-09-20T08:27:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T12:27:23","slug":"smartphone-etf-is-this-a-good-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/16\/smartphone-etf-is-this-a-good-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"SmartPhone ETF &#8211; Is This A Good Idea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are plenty of ETFs out there that are gimmicky and some that are core. Do you remember a time that there was a mutual fund based on Woman&#8217;s shopping trends? How about the one that only invested in the hot trends of teens? There are even those that invest in the &#8220;bad stuff&#8221; &#8211; like the Vice Fund &#8211; (VICEX).<\/p>\n<p>One would think it could be a contrary indicator when a new ETF appear that invests in a <!--more-->red-hot sector. Maybe jumping-the-shark?<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/finance?q=qfon\" target=\"_blank\">NASDAQ IMX Smrtphone index<\/a> is the backdrop of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/\/finance?chdnp=1&amp;chdd=1&amp;chds=1&amp;chdv=1&amp;chvs=maximized&amp;chdeh=0&amp;chfdeh=0&amp;chdet=1300136215971&amp;chddm=5865&amp;chls=IntervalBasedLine&amp;cmpto=INDEXNASDAQ:QFON&amp;cmptdms=0&amp;q=NASDAQ:FONE&amp;ntsp=0\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>FONE ETF<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, is it too late or is it just in time? Comments welcome&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/FONE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12172 aligncenter\" title=\"FONE\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FONE-610x709.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"709\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are plenty of ETFs out there that are gimmicky and some that are core. Do you remember a time that there was a mutual fund based on Woman&#8217;s shopping trends? How about the one that only invested in the hot trends of teens? There are even those that invest in the &#8220;bad stuff&#8221; &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,42],"tags":[490,340],"class_list":["post-12171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-markets","category-stocks","tag-stocks","tag-tech","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}