The ETF Authority is a premium investing service from StreetAuthority.com. In each monthly issue, editor Nathan Slaughter uses a proprietary ranking system and a host of in-depth fundamental research to identify today's top exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The mission of The ETF Authority is to help our readers identify today's most profitable ETFs and closed-end funds.
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About the Editor...

Nathan Slaughter has developed a long and successful track record over the years by investing in exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and deeply-discounted securities. When it comes to ETFs, Nathan has created a proprietary ranking system that helps him zero in on today's most promising funds..... (more info)

About our "ETF Composite Score" Ranking System...
Our research team here at StreetAuthority has developed an advanced ETF rating system. This proprietary model incorporates our comprehensive research, analysis and market outlook, and it allows us to provide you with an easy-to-interpret letter grade for each and every ETF we profile.

To determine this grade, we judge funds on a number of quantitative factors, including fees and expenses, volatility and risk-adjusted performance, relative returns, and tax efficiency, among other things. And to supplement this hard data, we add our subjective, forward-looking assessment of a specific fund's outlook, based on relative strength, valuation and a host of other technical and fundamental criteria.

As the most important grading criterion, we assign a fund's relative performance a score ranging from 1 (lowest) to 15 (highest). Each of the other five grading categories are worth five points. From that total, we determine a fund's grade as follows: 

38 - 40 points -- A+
34 - 37 points -- A
31 - 33 points -- A-
28 - 30 points -- B+
26 - 27 points -- B
24 - 25 points -- B-
17 - 23 points -- C
14 - 16 points -- D
<13 points -- F

This grading methodology forms the foundation of our ETF Authority newsletter, and needless to say, we focus our research primarily on those select few funds that fall into the upper tiers of this scoring system.

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• Issue Archives -- Click here to view an archive of all previous ETF Authority issues.  Investors can glean a great deal of value from our archived analysis by focusing on our research methodologies and previous ETF selections.  In addition, we still hold many of the funds mentioned within these archives, and as such, this historical information is still valuable today.
  
  
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• Research Reports -- In the process of researching and analyzing thousands of ETFs and closed-end funds throughout the year, our dedicated research staff often uncovers some incredible investing opportunities. In these special research reports we bring you an in-depth look at many of our favorite funds.
  
  
• Model Portfolios -- In an effort to provide continued guidance on many of our very best ETF and closed-end fund investing ideas, we've created two model portfolios. Our "Buy-and-Hold" Portfolio includes superior ETFs and closed-end funds that are expected to deliver strong gains over the next 3-5 years. Meanwhile, our "Sector Trading" Portfolio includes securities that are well positioned to deliver market-beating gains over the next six to twelve months.

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