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Thank you for your comment. I am a fan of the rails, only time will tell if CSX can reach fair value. I wish they had a ETF that was just for railroads, there is one in registration but it has been there for 2 years so who knows if it will ever come to market. It called: Global X FTSE Railroads ETF
The Case For Long-Short VIX Portfolios [View article]
Good article, but there is an ETF for that!
UBS ETRACS Daily Long-Short VIX ETN (XVIX) which "takes a long 100% position in the S&P 500 VIX Mid-Term Futures Index Excess Return with a short, or inverse, 50% position in the S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures Index Excess Return, with daily rebalancing of the long and short positions. "
OR THE
iPath S&P 500 Dynamic VIX ETN (XVZ) which "The index is designed to dynamically allocate between the S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures Index Excess Return and the S&P 500 VIX Mid-Term Futures Index Excess Return by monitoring the steepness of the implied volatility curve. The Index seeks to react positively to overall increases in market volatility and aims to lower the roll cost of investments linked to future implied volatility. "
5 Reasons The S&P 500 Could Fall 20% By The End Of 2013 [View article]
Yeah, but SPY is up like 16% in not even 5 full months time, so with 7 months left in the year, things could turn around just as quickly as they went up. Only time will tell.
Short Candidates For When The Tide Goes Out [View article]
Thank you for the comment. I like your example, and the concept, yeah stocks can have a bounce in the short-term to medium term, but over the long term the trend will continue. I was surprised by the comments questioning my simple screen. I like trying to keep things simple for anyone to repeat my screen. I like Occam's Razor "The simplest explanation is usually the right one."
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Yeah kinda low, I personally am in Rentech Nitrogen Partners, L.P. (RNF) which is a fertilizer MLP, two other popular fertilizer MLP's are CVR Partners, LP (UAN), and Terra Nitrogen Co. LP (TNH). TNH is a subsidiary of CF, and pays are variable dividend is currently yielding over 8%.
Click on Graphics Processors, and you will see the "Professional and gaming console grahpics" which it shows for 2012 was 5.02% of revenue, and by 2019 this division is only expected to account for 6.59%, so yes in the future consoles will make a larger part of revenues but is a gain of 1.5% enough to move the needle: Nope
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CF Pays a dividend, In 2007 its dividend was $0.02/share today it is $0.40/share, but from the history of CF it looks like they only raise there dividend like once every two years.
Short Candidates For When The Tide Goes Out [View article]
Thank you for the comment. This was my first article on finding stocks to possibly short, and I was stunned by the number of responses I got on AMD. Yes AMD has had a good run this year, but many stocks have had good runs so far with the market up big so far this year.
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The Case For Long-Short VIX Portfolios [View article]
I came up with some interesting ideas:
The data I used is from ETFreplay and I used the start date of October 4th 2011, which was the first day of trading for SVXY.
Your 80/20 portfolio 257.50% return with 62.10% volatility so risk/return= 257.50/62.10 =4.15 and -88% correlation to the VIX.
My Ideas:
Idea One:
70% SVXY
20% EDV
10% VXX
233.10% return with 54.7% volatility so risk/return= 233.1/54.7=4.26 and -88% correlation to the VIX.
Idea 2:
80% SVXY
20% EDV
277.00% return with 59.00% volatility so risk/return= 277/59=4.69 and -88% correlation to the VIX.
Just a couple thoughts.
Long Candidates If The Tide Continues Rising [View article]
The Case For Long-Short VIX Portfolios [View article]
UBS ETRACS Daily Long-Short VIX ETN (XVIX) which "takes a long 100% position in the S&P 500 VIX Mid-Term Futures Index Excess Return with a short, or inverse, 50% position in the S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures Index Excess Return, with daily rebalancing of the long and short positions. "
OR THE
iPath S&P 500 Dynamic VIX ETN (XVZ) which "The index is designed to dynamically allocate between the S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures Index Excess Return and the S&P 500 VIX Mid-Term Futures Index Excess Return by monitoring the steepness of the implied volatility curve. The Index seeks to react positively to overall increases in market volatility and aims to lower the roll cost of investments linked to future implied volatility. "
Just a couple more funds to look at.
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Click on Graphics Processors, and you will see the "Professional and gaming console grahpics" which it shows for 2012 was 5.02% of revenue, and by 2019 this division is only expected to account for 6.59%, so yes in the future consoles will make a larger part of revenues but is a gain of 1.5% enough to move the needle: Nope
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