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Inverse/Leveraged ETFs: Inappropriate For Long-Term Investors
The ETF Authority • Mon, Mar 11 • 10 Comments
Top 5 Leveraged Short ETF Pairs: Riding The Waves Of Distortions
Richard Bloch • Mon, Jul 9, 2012 • 5 Comments
REITs Register Another Month Of Outperformance In April
Michael Terry • Thu, May 3, 2012 • 13 Comments
How To Profit From A Stock Market Crash, Part II: Inverse Equity ETFs
Epsilon • Sun, Feb 12, 2012 • 6 Comments
How To Bet Against The Market Without Shorting Or Using Options
Epsilon • Thu, Dec 1, 2011 • 17 Comments
A Strategy For Shorting Leveraged ETF Pairs
Eric Falkenstein • Mon, Oct 31, 2011 • 5 Comments
Leveraged ETFs And Reverse Share Splits
Tom Lydon • Thu, Oct 13, 2011
2 Roads Diverge In Commercial Real Estate
Jan Brzeski • Tue, Aug 30, 2011 • 7 Comments
Should Be Another Wild Week - Watch For Inverse ETFs And 2 Stocks That Have More Downside
The Oxen Group • Mon, Aug 22, 2011 • 4 Comments
Mortgage Activity Slips Despite Rate Decline
Markos Kaminis • Thu, Jun 30, 2011 • 3 Comments
Chilton: Time to Put REITs in the Portfolio
Brad Case • Wed, Jun 22, 2011 • 7 Comments
Real Estate Datapoint of the Day, Bill Gross Edition
Felix Salmon • Fri, Jun 10, 2011 • 8 Comments
4 ETFs Hit by Falling Home Values
Kevin Grewal • Thu, Jun 2, 2011
Profiting From a Market Downturn: A Primer on Short Selling
Parsimony Investment Research • Sun, May 22, 2011 • 7 Comments
The Coming Mini-Boom in Commercial Real Estate
Dr. Dr. Bill Conerly • Thu, Mar 31, 2011 • 4 Comments
Follow the Mid-Term Channels of the S&P 500, Dow
Stock Traders Daily • Thu, Feb 3, 2011 • 3 Comments
The Buck Stops Here: Housing Price Trends and the Economic Outlook
The PolyCapitalist • Sun, Jan 30, 2011 • 37 Comments
Five ETFs to Play a Housing Double Dip
David Oldenburg • Wed, Jan 26, 2011
REIT Returns Likely to Be Worse Than Stock Returns
Geoffrey Ching • Fri, Jan 21, 2011 • 12 Comments
2011 Stock Picks: REIT ETFs
Intelligent Speculator • Fri, Jan 7, 2011 • 3 Comments

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It's Time to Get Our Short Sale On
The Oxen Group • Mon, Mar 8, 2010 • 17 Comments
Real-Estate ETF Faces Bearish Trade
optionMONSTER • Thu, Feb 18, 2010 • 2 Comments
Real Estate Betting: Calls Surge in UltraShort ETF
optionMONSTER • Mon, Oct 19, 2009
SRS: The Leveraged ETF Witch Hunt Continues
Michael Johnston • Thu, Aug 13, 2009 • 3 Comments
Class Action Lawsuit Against ProShares SRS Seems Without Merit
Ron Rowland • Sun, Aug 9, 2009 • 11 Comments
Ultrashort ETFs: Now It's Less Embarrassing to Admit Owning Them
Gary Tanashian • Fri, Jul 10, 2009 • 9 Comments
Play Falling Commercial Real Estate with SRS
Chris Lau • Mon, Mar 16, 2009 • 5 Comments
Dizzying Day Trip for Ultrashort Real Estate
TraderMark • Thu, Dec 18, 2008 • 6 Comments
Ultrashort Real Estate Drop Demonstrates Unlimited Faith in a Recovery
TraderMark • Wed, Dec 17, 2008 • 21 Comments
Mervyn's: Another Retailer Going Down
TraderMark • Mon, Jul 21, 2008 • 6 Comments
UltraShort Real Estate ETF: The Only Safe Haven for Commercial REITs
Steven Chang • Sun, Apr 13, 2008 • 13 Comments
As Building Slowdown Goes Commercial, Ultrashort Real Estate Should Speed Up
TraderMark • Wed, Mar 5, 2008 • 19 Comments
Commercial Property Prices Continue to Fall
Toro • Sun, Feb 10, 2008 • 3 Comments
CMBS Spreads Are Under Extreme Stress
Toro • Wed, Jan 30, 2008 • 1 Comment
Commercial REITs - Valuation Gap Closing
Toro • Fri, Jan 11, 2008
Hedge Fund Makes 1000% in a Year, Shorting Subprime
TraderMark • Wed, Nov 28, 2007 • 6 Comments
REITs Headed For Trouble
Trade Radar Operator • Thu, Sep 6, 2007 • 1 Comment

Inverse/Leveraged ETFs: Inappropriate For Long-Term Investors
The ETF Authority • Mon, Mar 11 • 10 Comments
Top 5 Leveraged Short ETF Pairs: Riding The Waves Of Distortions
Richard Bloch • Mon, Jul 9, 2012 • 5 Comments
REITs Register Another Month Of Outperformance In April
Michael Terry • Thu, May 3, 2012 • 13 Comments
How To Profit From A Stock Market Crash, Part II: Inverse Equity ETFs
Epsilon • Sun, Feb 12, 2012 • 6 Comments
How To Bet Against The Market Without Shorting Or Using Options
Epsilon • Thu, Dec 1, 2011 • 17 Comments
A Strategy For Shorting Leveraged ETF Pairs
Eric Falkenstein • Mon, Oct 31, 2011 • 5 Comments
Leveraged ETFs And Reverse Share Splits
Tom Lydon • Thu, Oct 13, 2011
2 Roads Diverge In Commercial Real Estate
Jan Brzeski • Tue, Aug 30, 2011 • 7 Comments
Should Be Another Wild Week - Watch For Inverse ETFs And 2 Stocks That Have More Downside
The Oxen Group • Mon, Aug 22, 2011 • 4 Comments
Mortgage Activity Slips Despite Rate Decline
Markos Kaminis • Thu, Jun 30, 2011 • 3 Comments
Chilton: Time to Put REITs in the Portfolio
Brad Case • Wed, Jun 22, 2011 • 7 Comments
Real Estate Datapoint of the Day, Bill Gross Edition
Felix Salmon • Fri, Jun 10, 2011 • 8 Comments
4 ETFs Hit by Falling Home Values
Kevin Grewal • Thu, Jun 2, 2011
Profiting From a Market Downturn: A Primer on Short Selling
Parsimony Investment Research • Sun, May 22, 2011 • 7 Comments
The Coming Mini-Boom in Commercial Real Estate
Dr. Dr. Bill Conerly • Thu, Mar 31, 2011 • 4 Comments
Follow the Mid-Term Channels of the S&P 500, Dow
Stock Traders Daily • Thu, Feb 3, 2011 • 3 Comments
The Buck Stops Here: Housing Price Trends and the Economic Outlook
The PolyCapitalist • Sun, Jan 30, 2011 • 37 Comments
Five ETFs to Play a Housing Double Dip
David Oldenburg • Wed, Jan 26, 2011
REIT Returns Likely to Be Worse Than Stock Returns
Geoffrey Ching • Fri, Jan 21, 2011 • 12 Comments
2011 Stock Picks: REIT ETFs
Intelligent Speculator • Fri, Jan 7, 2011 • 3 Comments

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SRS Description

ProShares UltraShort Real Estate seeks daily investment results, before fees and expenses, that correspond to twice (200%) the inverse (opposite) of the daily performance of the Dow Jones U.S. Real Estate IndexSM.
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In Your Portfolio: A Guide to Sector ETFs, Real Estate [REIT] ETFs
Asset Class Performance: Real Estate

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Thursday, January 24, 8:53 AM "(Commercial property) values are increasing but they're not running away," says Starwood (STWD) CEO Barry Sternlicht in an interview about the LNR purchase. He notes money is beginning to move out of fixed income into real property. This isn't news for major city centers, but Sternlicht says it's beginning to spill into "secondary cities." Comment! [Financials, U.S. Economy]
Friday, January 18, 10:59 AM More good news for housing: Household formation growth is back. After averaging more than 1M/year prior to the property bust, formations dropped to about 500K/year between 2008-10. The number bounced to 1.1M in 2011 and looks to have risen further last year. The gains are particularly felt in the rental market, and builders are obliging with a big jump in multi-family starts. 5 Comments [U.S. Economy]
Friday, November 30, 2012, 4:08 PM Norway's sovereign wealth fund is jumping into U.S. real estate, planning to invest about $11B of its $660B in "conservative" investments such as office complexes in major cities. The fund - just stocks and bonds at the moment - wants to have 5% of its assets in property. "The U.S. is the next real estate market to invest in," says fund management chief Yngve Slyngstad. 1 Comment [U.S. Economy, Global & FX]
Monday, November 26, 2012, 3:38 PM Focus on D.C. is preventing many from seeing the potential for housing - and by relation, employment - to deliver a big upside surprise in 2013, writes Jim Leaviss. If past patterns hold, the recent sharp decline in inventory should presage strong growth next year. Rising house prices removes a key psychological block from buyers - most prefer to buy into a clearly rising market. 1 Comment [U.S. Economy]
Friday, November 16, 2012, 3:29 PM Developed real estate ex-U.S. (WPS) holds its ground over the last 2 months as domestic property (IYR) falls more than 7%. YTD, WPS is up 25.4% vs. an 8.7% gain for IYR. Another international fund, VNQI - holding many of the same stocks, but less top-heavy - has posted an even greater return, +28.1%. 3 Comments [Global & FX]
Thursday, November 15, 2012, 11:00 AM The seasonally-adjusted delinquency rate for 1-4 family homes fell18 bps to 7.40% in Q3, according to the MBA. The rate fell 59 bps on a Y/Y basis. The percentage of loans in some sort of delinquency fell to 11.71% from 12.63% a year ago. "A significant drop in the shadow inventory of distressed loans (is) a real positive for the housing market." (see Blackstone - buying up everything it sees). 1 Comment [U.S. Economy]
Friday, October 19, 2012, 12:29 PM Developed real estate ex- U.S. (WPS) continues to add to its sizable lead over domestic property (IYR, VNQ), with all of the outperformance coming since late July. The fund's largest holdings are concentrated in Asia - Japan, Hong Kong - with a bit of Australia and Europe thrown in. 1 Comment
Wednesday, October 17, 2012, 8:39 AM More on September Housing Starts: Both starts and permits post their best numbers since the summer of 2008. August's gains are revised higher to +4.1% from +2.3%. As hoped, it appears housing starts are catching up to large previous gains in builder confidence. (see also) Comment! [U.S. Economy]
Friday, September 14, 2012, 3:09 PM Trailing U.S. real estate (IYR, VNQ) badly for much of the last month, the past few sessions have been especially good for developed real estate ex-U.S (WPS). On a YTD basis, WPS continues to outperform domestic property by about 600 basis points. Comment!
Saturday, August 25, 2012, 10:00 AM Southern Co. (SO) and Verizon (VZ) may be the "poster children" among high dividend-payers as the quest for yield takes the utility (XLU), telecom (IXP), and consumer staples (XLP) sectors to frothy levels. The flip-side are health-care services (XHS), autos (CARZ), housing (IYR), and tech (XLK) - lower payers, but with relative valuations that have rarely been this cheap. 17 Comments [Quick Ideas]
Wednesday, August 8, 2012, 3:15 PM The 4.8% Q2 gain in Freddie Mac's House Price Index was the strongest print in 8 years, says Chief Economist Frank Nothaft. He casts doubt on the claim of a massive "shadow inventory" set to be unleashed on the market, noting sharp declines in both excess-for-rent and excess-for-sale inventory. Also, national figures are obscuring true tightness in many local markets. 7 Comments [U.S. Economy]
Thursday, July 5, 2012, 1:16 PM Price matters. Real estate funds have trumped all other categories of stock fund over the last 3 years, not because the underlying assets have great fundamentals, but because the class "was priced for bankruptcy" in 2009. Now the fundamentals are turning. Some favorites: VNQ, SPG, AVB, FNIO, ICF, IFGL. 5 Comments [U.S. Economy]
Tuesday, July 3, 2012, 9:42 AM Blackstone (BX) gets into the residential landlord business, buying up $250M worth of foreclosed single-family homes with the intention of renting them out, according to sources. The firm joins what can now be called a mad rush of deep-pocketed investors trying to take single-family rentals out of the mom-and-pop category and into a major asset class. 24 Comments [Financials]
Friday, June 29, 2012, 3:21 PM Real estate ex-U.S. outperformed U.S. real estate this month, WPS +4.9% (45 minutes before the close) vs. IYR and VNQ, each up about 2.5%. Over the last year though, it's not close, with U.S. real estate outperforming ex-U.S. by 1500 basis points or more (depending on the ETF), the divergence beginning last last fall. Comment!
Wednesday, June 13, 2012, 1:19 PM Even with meaty yields, the dividend payout ratios for REITs remain very low, and thus very safe, says Fidelity's Sam Wald. Current low levels of supply mean economic growth does not have to be great for these companies to grow nicely, he adds. 1 Comment [Financials]
Thursday, April 12, 2012, 5:54 AM New foreclosures fell 16% in March from a year earlier, according to RealtyTrac, reaching the the lowest quarterly total since 2007. RealtyTrac expects foreclosure activity to remain elevated, though "the faster we can move some of these old foreclosures through the pipeline, the faster the market can be in a place to recover." Comment! [U.S. Economy]

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Michael Bryant
LOL! The bearish ProShares UltraShort Real Estate (SRS) surged over 200% today. Why? Did land prices suddenly plunge?
10/13/11
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Dr. Kris
Bears moving in: Real-estate suffering as home construction and RE etfs--ITB & IYR--break down while short etfs--DRV, REK, SRS--break out.
6/10/11
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Michael Kudrna
How are you shorting housing? Contribute your ideas. $SRS http://bit.ly/i0iJNK
2/28/11
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The Oxen Group
The Oxen Group is involved with $SRS at 18.78, we are looking for movement downwards on homes from this point. http://bit.ly/fq547t/
12/22/10
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Thomas Pan
Mortgage rates seen rising to 5.1% in next year $DRN $DRV $SRS $URE $IYR
11/7/10
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Thomas Pan
There are 2.1 million unsold houses. Excess inventory is the mortal enemy of house prices, which may fall another 20%. IYR URE SRS DRN DRV
7/27/10
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Ophir Chador
Homebuilder Sentiment Worsens in July (KBH, RYL, LEN, SRS, MS, BAC) -- http://bit.ly/aHwdzJ
7/19/10
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djn21
Indexes top out at 200 MA again. Downtrend intact. Nothing's changed. Still heavy cash, with select shorts (EPV, SDS, SKF. Will add SRS)
7/17/10
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Thomas Pan
Among $14 trillion in household debt, $10.5 trillion is mortgage-related IYR URE SRS DRV DRN XLF UYG SKF FAS FAZ
7/11/10
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Michael Bryant
LOL! The bearish ProShares UltraShort Real Estate (SRS) surged over 200% today. Why? Did land prices suddenly plunge?
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