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Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF (EDV)

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  • The Ten Worst ETFs of 2009 [View article]
    Follow up to the retired one previous post cut short, I'd want 100 % tax exempt. As starting in 2011 the level of expected taxes the... More »
    Comment by The Retired one
    Dec 27 13:39 pm |
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    As far as I can see no matter how short sighted . Yuk yuk. I think when rates go up they won't go up enough for people to restructure... More »
    Comment by The Retired one
    Dec 27 13:13 pm |
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  • The Ten Worst ETFs of 2009 [View article]
    If you mean something that holds long bonds, this, along with preferred shares are one of the few investment ideas over which I have... More »
    Comment by ewr
    Dec 25 12:50 pm |
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  • The Ten Worst ETFs of 2009 [View article]
    Amey (responder above) is exactly correct. SRS is one of the worst performers of 2009, but one must look why ! Certain forces on wall... More »
    Comment by titans
    Dec 23 20:31 pm |
    Rating: +3 -1
  • The Ten Worst ETFs of 2009 [View article]
    I have never thought UNG was a long term holding. It is just another way to play the fluctuations of the NG market. If you see it for... More »
    Comment by Erichz
    Dec 23 19:43 pm |
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  • The Ten Worst ETFs of 2009 [View article]
    You are absolutely right. UNG is just a trading vehicle for stock-market gamblers. I never looked at the VXX before...but that one... More »
    Comment by drbob66
    Dec 23 18:01 pm |
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  • The Ten Worst ETFs of 2009 [View article]
    What about the SRS? Dec 23, 2008 High trade of the day $59.17 Today $7.22 Down 51.95 or 87.8%
    Comment by Tony5583
    Dec 23 15:45 pm |
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  • The Ten Worst ETFs of 2009 [View article]
    AARC: You should realize by now that UNG has zero long term correlation to the fundamentals of natural gas, so talking about a... More »
    Comment by Mark Anthony
    Dec 23 14:33 pm |
    Rating: +3 -1
  • The Ten Worst ETFs of 2009 [View article]
    Most numbnuts buy at the highs and sell at the lows. Don't be a numbnut.
    Comment by aarc
    Dec 23 13:28 pm |
    Rating: +2 -2
  • The Ten Worst ETFs of 2009 [View article]
    Only a complete numbnuts would say 2009 has been a good year for investors. Unless you are talking only about NEW investors. Or unless... More »
    Comment by wg
    Dec 23 12:41 pm |
    Rating: +2 -2
  • The Ten Worst ETFs of 2009 [View article]
    UNG lost 87% of it's price from the high of $63.90 to $8.50 in approx 18 months. For it to be able to recover those losses, it will... More »
    Comment by aarc
    Dec 23 12:29 pm |
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  • The Ten Worst ETFs of 2009 [View article]
    Boy, am I glad I kept buying UNG on the way down. Buy when it was at it's worst. I can sell them on the way up. It is amazing how UNG... More »
    Comment by aarc
    Dec 23 12:04 pm |
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  • The Ten Worst ETFs of 2009 [View article]
    I'm going with a long term treasury ETF on the down trend. Higher yields until they rally again. I appreciate any ideas.
    Comment by Benny D.
    Dec 23 10:29 am |
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  • The Ten Worst ETFs of 2009 [View article]
    Definitely. Took a bath on this one... Our gov't market manipulators can go rot in hell. On Dec 22 05:45 PM stoney6 wrote: > Any... More »
    Comment by tooconfused
    Dec 23 08:48 am |
    Rating: +1 -1
  • The Ten Worst ETFs of 2009 [View article]
    What's the point of these "10 Worst" articles? Investors aren't that interested in what didn't work in the past year. If you really... More »
    Comment by fjpenney
    Dec 23 05:08 am |
    Rating: +1 -8