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ETF Shuffles in My Portfolio

BrucePile: i don't find SDS a useless product. used in combination with it's ultralong twin, SSO, they have provided me very "measured" protection to the downside. the beauty of hedging is in the eye of the beholder. one hedge doesn't fit all.

On Feb 20 09:53 AM BrucePile wrote:

> SDS and the other double shorts on the stock market are a weird and
> useless family of products. They are supposed to accurately track
> for just a one day period, I've read, and they can do any unpredictable
> thing over any other investment time period, severely distorting
> any tracking of an index, usually to the shorter's disadvantage.