Daily “Ways-to-Play” The News Before the Moves 2/9/2010 - ETFdesk

Send Message

ETFDesk aims to be an idea factory for Exchange Traded Fund investing with all the necessary tools to research your own investment ideas as well as the ideas of others. Our advanced search feature allows users to search ETFs by asset class, holdings, sector, industry, country of origin,... More

My company:: ETFDesk.com
My blog:: ETFDesk Daily

Daily “Ways-to-Play” The News Before the Moves 2/9/2010 0 comments

Feb 9, 2010 12:12 PM | about stocks: FXE, EUO, UUP, XLF, SPY, IXG, IYF, IAU, GLD, GLL, DGZ, DZZ, DBO, OIL, USL, SCO, DTO, SZO, DNO, SGG

Sign up for our Daily “Ways-to-Play” Email Today

Traders Making Biggest Bet of AllTime Against Euro
According to the FT, traders have accumlulated the largest short position against the currency in its existenence, with positions totaling near $8 billion. sell Rydex Euro Currency Trust (FXE) buy ProShares UltraShort Euro (EUO); Check out how others are using ETFs to capitalize on this news or add your own opinion
Euro Falling, US Recovery Under Threat
Intensified fears over government debt in the eurozone are pushing the euro weaker against the dollar. The G7 achieved nothing over the weekend, the IMF is stuck on the sidelines, and the Europeans are sitting on their hands at least until a summit on Thursday. There is a lot of trading time between now and then – and most of it is likely to be spent weakening the euro further. buy PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish Fund (UUP) sell SPDR-Financial (XLF) sell S&P 500 SPDR (SPY) selliShares S&P Global Financials (IXG) sell iShares DJ US Financial Sector (IYF) sell Rydex Euro Currency Trust (FXE) buy ProShares UltraShort Euro (EUO); Check out how others are using ETFs to capitalize on this news or add your own opinion
Brian Nick: Time To Short Gold
Brian Nick, investment strategist, Barclays Wealth (Nick): Now is a good time to short gold, but probably a better time to short gold would have been back in November, when it was $200/oz higher sell iShares COMEX Gold Trust (IAU) sell streetTRACKS Gold Trust (GLD) buy ProShares UltraShort Gold (GLL) buy PowerShares DB Gold Short Exchange Traded Note (DGZ) buy PowerShares DB Gold Double Short Exchange Traded Note (DZZ); Check out how others are using ETFs to capitalize on this news or add your own opinion
Tumbling Oil Prices May Herald a Bigger Dive to Come
Back when the world economy was booming prior to the credit crisis, speculation about how high the price of oil could go was all the rage on Wall Street. As demand surged, investment bank Goldman Sachs famously predicted $200-a-barrel prices, while more provocative commentators saw the price tag reaching $1,000 a barrel. sell PowerShares DB Oil Fund (DBO) sell United States Oil Fund LP (USO) sell iPath S&P GSCI Crude Oil Total Return Index ETN (OIL) sell United States 12 Month Oil Fund, LP (USL) buy ProShares UltraShort DJ-AIG Crude Oil (SCO) buy PowerShares DB Crude Oil Double Short ETN (DTO) buy PowerShares DB Crude Oil Short ETN (SZO) buy United States Short Oil Fund, LP (DNO); Check out how others are using ETFs to capitalize on this news or add your own opinion
Sugar Shortage May Turn ‘Acute’ in Third Quarter
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- A global sugar shortage, which drove prices to the highest level in three decades, may peak in the third quarter this year on demand from the U.S., Mexico, India and Pakistan, according to U.K.-based Tropix Capital Management. buy iPath Dow Jones AIG Sugar Total Return Sub Index (SGG); Check out how others are using ETFs to capitalize on this news or add your own opinion

Themes: Sugar, Commodity, Oil, Energy, Euro, FX, Currency, PIIGS, debt, crisis Stocks: FXE, EUO, UUP, XLF, SPY, IXG, IYF, IAU, GLD, GLL, DGZ, DZZ, DBO, OIL, USL, SCO, DTO, SZO, DNO, SGG

Back To ETFdesk's Instablog HomePage »

Instablogs are blogs which are instantly set up and networked within the Seeking Alpha community. Instablog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors, in contrast to contributors' articles.