I did some of the commodity ETF's last year, and discovered at tax time, they increased the complexity of my tax return with an annoying Schedule K-1, or something like that. It was time consuming getting the data into Turbotax.
are people that trade DBO, OIL, USO et al, evil speculators?
with an online broker account, they are certainly easy to buy, easy to sell.
a lot of these guy's were probably peak oil types, who start thinking of fossil fuels and gold as an asset class, that can't easily be inflated, unlike dollars and corporate stocks.
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with an online broker account, they are certainly easy to buy, easy to sell.
a lot of these guy's were probably peak oil types, who start thinking of fossil fuels and gold as an asset class, that can't easily be inflated, unlike dollars and corporate stocks.