Comments on: List of Inverse (Short / Bear) ETFs

By: Dennis D'Aoust

Dennis D'Aoust — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:06:42 +0000

This is one stratergy
At he close you buy both bull and bear.
At 10:00 depending on direction of market you sell one.
Before end of day you buy the one you sold in am.
Repeat until market gives no direction.

By: Tristan Yates

Tristan Yates — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:10:51 +0000

My colleague and I just wrote another article you may be interested in: “Leveraged ETFs: A Value Destruction Trap?” It shows the perils of a fund trying to maintain constant leverage during a bear market, which is what the Ryder and ProShares ETFs do.

In order to maintain their leverage ratio, these funds buy lots of shares during a bull market, and then sell them all during a downturn, with devastating results which they just can’t recover from.

Here’s the URL:

http://etf.seekingalpha.com/article/31195

BTW if you have any questions about leveraged indexing, please let us know.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:38:14 +0000

not that I know of

By: DANIEL PALOYAN

DANIEL PALOYAN — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:49:25 +0000

is there an etf short the precious metal stocks?

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:01:04 +0000

Born2Code — that’s good info to know. Thanks for the heads up.

John — I’m pretty sure I can’t trade futures in my IRA.

Joern — USPIX is a mutual fund, and certainly another way to go. I don’t know what its volume is like.

Mike — You must be referring to Andy Swan’s post, eh? I think he may be a bit early. I’d wait until the Fed was out of the way… but what do I know???

By: Mike O'Connor

Mike O'Connor — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:37:17 +0000

Michael,

I’ve just made a quick survey, using, in part, the links that you provided. Now hear this: the entire trading-fool blogosphere is set to go heavily short tomorrow, Friday (give or take one or two).

Whither go I, is the question?

By: Joern

Joern — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:47:41 +0000

What about “USPIX”? does that have an anemic volume?

Joern

By: Howard Lindzon » Stock Market 2.0

Howard Lindzon » Stock Market 2.0 — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:05:07 +0000

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By: john

john — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 05:59:33 +0000

Mabe I’m missing something, but if your looking to go short why not just short a futures index directly instead of using an ETF?

By: Michael Panzner

Michael Panzner — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:36:55 +0000

Mdawsz,

I don’t mind that you’ve made ignorant statements and baseless accusations, but the least you can do is spell my name correctly.

Michael