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Book Review: The Box, by Marc Levinson

could you make a few reading suggestions to learn where the shippingi s today and where it is going tomorrow?

thx

Bond Expert: Monday Wrap

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Hartford Financial's Risks and Alternatives

blaming short sellers for management incompetence and lack of government oversight is ridiculous.

Why I Feel TBT Is About to Become a Goldmine

please explain what you mean by the double etf short decay.


On Jan 13 07:22 AM dawase wrote:

> I traded TBT from the 26th of Dec through yesterday. I think the
> double short ETF decay will eat your returns up before the long bond
> turns south. The Fed has already said it expects to engage in QE
> to suppress the long end of the curve. I would be wary of trying
> to take the other side of that trade.
>
> The US is not Germany. Look at the price action yesterday. Capital
> continues to flow into Treasuries at the expense of all other instruments.
> Unless you can explain why your timing is spot on, a short position
> in TLT is probably a better play.

ProShares UltraShort China ETF: Caveat Emptor!

how does the fund manager rebalance the leverage each day as mentioned in the article. how does that affect performance on a given day?

ProShares UltraShort China ETF: Caveat Emptor!

"It is not the Hang Seng and it is not the iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index as some people have suggested. The former is a Hong Kong index and the latter is an index fund marketed by Barclays which attempts to track the same index that FXP attempts to track. The FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index consists of "25 of the largest and most liquid Chinese stocks (Red Chips and H shares)

still unclear. the fxp is 2X of what index?