Paul Accampo, founder of ETF Discipline, pursued a keen interest in investing during his thirty year career in marketing and sales at Hewlett-Packard. He read countless books and articles and made his first stock purchases in the 1970s and immediately learned flexibility. He and two close friends tried and discarded many investing ideas while growing their portfolios over twenty years and they developed the Best ETF Funds skills that helped them to avoid major damage from events such as the Crash of 1987. During the 17 year period between 1983 and 2000 Paul Accampo deposited 4,000 dollars annually into two IRA accounts and, following the Best ETF Funds process, grew his 68,000 dollar investment to 450,000 dollars, a 19% return on investment. He went to cash when the market cracked in 2000. In 2004 ETF Discipline founder, Paul Accampo, described his Best ETF methods in a book entitled, The X-Discipline: Financial Independence for the Web-Savvy Investor, intended for a-generation children.

The response was actually stronger from the boomer generation which recently had a greater need to manage its own assets. The X-Discipline has evolved into today's ETF Discipline which differs primarily by the shift away from mutual funds to Best ETF (exchange traded funds).The five steps of ETF Discipline helps investors to create the mechanical Best ETF process that pre-defines risk and reward ahead of execution and removes emotion from investing. Investors are aware of the risks they are taking in advance and do not panic if the market gets crazy. If executed as planned the entire portfolio takes the entire portfolio to the safety of cash. The ETF Discipline is a defined process for buying and selling the Best ETF (Exchange Traded Funds) and the methods for managing a portfolio of five to fifteen funds. Having the knowledge to do this can help investors to profit from market upswings and protect themselves from the inevitable reversals.

ETF Discipline informs that the objectives of this Best ETF process are to anticipate market changes, follow leading funds and limit the risk. ETF Discipline offers investors the weekly ETF Letter to teach the ETF Discipline by example. The concepts in the Best ETF Discipline come from trading practices: well defined steps, consistently repeated, to achieve a favorable risk/reward trade off. If investors extend the process to five to fifteen stocks or funds they can manage their own portfolios. The weekly ETF Letter obtained from ETF Discipline helps investors make the transition in five steps from passive investor to personal portfolio manager. The expertise contained in the weekly ETF Letter helps Best ETF investors ignore and discard rumor and opinion. ETF Discipline provides the ETF Letter weekly to help investors make the Best ETF transition in five steps. ETF Discipline publishes its collection of data from many sources and assessments of probable market direction, identify, buy and sell prices for up-trending funds and create an action plan for the forthcoming week. The investor takes control with conservative strategies for keeping gains and minimizing losses in a five to fifteen Best ETF portfolio.