The more actively
traded junior mines are, the more liquid they are, which makes them easier to dispose of when it's time to take profits.
Not exact matches
The two main ETFs we
trade are SPDR Gold Trust ($ GLD), which tracks the price of spot gold futures, and
Junior Gold Miners ($ GDXJ), which is comprised of a basket of smaller gold
mining stocks.
Some of the
junior mining stocks offer good potential, but they are so thinly
traded liquidity can be a real problem.
My South - American portfolio uses this advantage to reduce risk by better diversification, and to try to exploit mispricing that, presumably, occurs in some stocks that are not
traded in massive volume, such as fixed - income closed - end funds and
junior -
mining shares.
As of May 23rd, $ 2.6 billion or 67 % of Van Eck's
Junior Gold
Mining Exchange
Traded Fund ETF (GDXJ) 4 total assets of $ 3.9 billion were directly tied to JNUG — Direxion's 3X levered ETF5 to the GDXJ.