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  • Hedging With Leveraged ETFs

    There are plenty of ways for your portfolio to profit when the market goes down--you can go short, buy puts, sell naked calls. But what if the market moves against you and you're not hedged? Considering using one of the 2x or 3x leveraged ETFs to balance out your portfolio? While these funds can help smooth out volatility in your portfolio, it's probably not as straight ahead as you might imagine.

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