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  • Oil ETFs: Worth Investing In Anticipation of a Price Rebound? [View article]
    If you're bullish on oil, why would you recommend ProShares UltraShort Oil & Gas (DUG)?
    Jan 14 09:23 am |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment
  • Why Does Cramer Have a Beef with Leveraged ETFs? [View article]
    If someone could answer this question for me, I would appreciate it.
    Aren't the prices of leveraged instruments like SDS/SSO derived from the underlying index (for example, the S&P 500)? If they are DERIVED from the price of an index, how can buying or selling the leveraged instruments effect the price of the underlying index? It doesn't make sense. They are either dependent on the index (which I believe to be true), or they are independent of the index (which doesn't make sense, but that is what people like Cramer seem to be saying.)
    Dec 24 10:33 am |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment
  • Relative Performance of Asset Categories [View article]
    Non-correlation with SPY is fascinating. Creative thinking pays off!
    Dec 07 21:45 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • IBM Drops Two Bombs on Microsoft [View article]
    Lotus Symphony? I can't believe you even took the time to type this out. What a joke! Microsoft will continue to dominate for exactly three reasons...

    1. Excel
    2. Outlook
    3. Exchange

    The "sleeper" is Exchange. It's like a Sherman tank... nearly bulletproof.
    Dec 07 18:37 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • UltraShort ETFs: At a Tipping Point? [View article]
    Did you know that DIG/DUG have no relationship to XLE? Yeah, it's true. Read the prospectus (hmmm... a little research maybe?) and you'll find out that they are based on IYE, the iShares Dow Jones US Energy index.


    On Nov 15 10:30 AM HaavBline wrote:

    > Some of the ProShare UltraShorts seem to have failed dramatically
    > to track its index. Complare charts of XLE, DIG, and DUG, and you
    > will see what I meant.
    >
    > DUG seems to have failed miserably to track XLE trends since early
    > October. I saw this pattern in some other Double Shorts ETFs also.
    > What's going on?
    Nov 16 23:35 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
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