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ProShares UltraShort Lehman 7-10 Year Treasury ETF (PST)

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Comments on PST

  • A Turning Point for U.S. Treasury ETFs? [View article]
    As of 12/11/09 the 20 yr TIP had a yield of 2.07%. Add to that the current rate of CPI-U all-items inflation (2.73%) gives us an... More »
    Comment by richard_e_newton
    Dec 14 16:08 pm |
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  • Short Bonds as Retail Sales Improve [View article]
    "interest rates will go up because of a better economy and because of inflation" So true! A big move in PPI inflation is coming. I... More »
    Comment by richard_e_newton
    Dec 14 15:55 pm |
    Rating: 0 0
  • Short Bonds as Retail Sales Improve [View article]
    Whenever you see a "win / win" trade - i.e. one that works in any environment - the most important question to ask is "what have I... More »
    Comment by Denis Gould
    Dec 14 00:35 am |
    Rating: 0 -2
  • Short Bonds as Retail Sales Improve [View article]
    to be long any levered ETF 2x or 3x for more than a day is a melting investment. look at fxi vs fxp jan 2008 to jan 2009.... More »
    Comment by chiker
    Dec 13 22:34 pm |
    Rating: +2 -1
  • Short Bonds as Retail Sales Improve [View article]
    The numbers are credible but people have missed that retail sales are actually down 12%. See "Retail sales: no boom, just doom and... More »
    Comment by Wildebeest
    Dec 13 15:47 pm |
    Rating: +3 0
  • Shorting U.S. Treasuries: The Best Trade of the Next Decade [View article]
    Actually, I'm not sure about the potentially negative carry with the underlying derivatives that they use. If they were purely shorting... More »
    Comment by tvb
    Dec 6 19:39 pm |
    Rating: 0 0
  • Shorting U.S. Treasuries: The Best Trade of the Next Decade [View article]
    You could go short (or buy puts) on long funds such as IEI TLH TLT, etc, and work this intrinsic ETF-bleed element to your advantage as... More »
    Comment by ceattlechris
    Dec 6 02:22 am |
    Rating: 0 -1
  • Shorting U.S. Treasuries: The Best Trade of the Next Decade [View article]
    As others have said, PST is expensive when factoring in a considerably headwind from the negative carry and management fees...chart the... More »
    Comment by tvb
    Dec 5 17:29 pm |
    Rating: +1 0
  • Shorting U.S. Treasuries: The Best Trade of the Next Decade [View article]
    My big trade is buying TBT and writing the calls every month for an extra 2% or 3%. Good chance my TBT will be called away this month... More »
    Comment by wingfootedgodhead
    Dec 5 14:52 pm |
    Rating: 0 0
  • Shorting U.S. Treasuries: The Best Trade of the Next Decade [View article]
    I just want to know if Kevin has his driver license yet.......
    Comment by BPYHO
    Dec 5 11:25 am |
    Rating: 0 0
  • Shorting U.S. Treasuries: The Best Trade of the Next Decade [View article]
    Now this I agree with. I think one has to short US Treasuries and one must also get long Gold, the Canadian Dollar, and the Swiss Franc.... More »
    Comment by Ames Tiedeman
    Dec 5 10:43 am |
    Rating: 0 0
  • Shorting U.S. Treasuries: The Best Trade of the Next Decade [View article]
    Any investment strategy that assumes that there is only one possible outcome is based on hubris, not sound analysis. Anyone who... More »
    Comment by Angel Martin
    Dec 5 08:22 am |
    Rating: +2 -2
  • Shorting U.S. Treasuries: The Best Trade of the Next Decade [View article]
    I remember those unbelievable rates on CD's twenty five years ago. They were a result of double digit inflation. Some folks were... More »
    Comment by User 410955
    Dec 5 08:06 am |
    Rating: 0 0
  • Shorting U.S. Treasuries: The Best Trade of the Next Decade [View article]
    Yeah I hate it when people don't use a LOGARITHMIC chart. I think they don't because using an arithmetic chart looks more dramatic and... More »
    Comment by Kinetics63
    Dec 4 20:10 pm |
    Rating: +1 0
  • Shorting U.S. Treasuries: The Best Trade of the Next Decade [View article]
    Unfortunately, it is not that simple. Many people forget that shorting Treasury securities and/or their proxies means that you are now... More »
    Comment by Ron Rowland
    Dec 4 14:14 pm |
    Rating: +2 -1