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  • A Skeptic on Leveraged ETFs [View article]
    Leverage is a double edged sword especially the magnitude of owing debt in a position going against you. What happens if the ETF has a call for margin?

    Unless you have the answer you should, like any other investment that you do not understand all of the risk, avoid. Pure PRUDENCE!!
    Dec 02 11:46 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Market Not Risky Enough for You? Try These Two New Triple-Levered ETFs [View article]
    I can see why Vegas is having trouble.

    One thing I learned as a depression baby, you can't be put in bankruptcy unless you have debt. Three to one debt to equity is certainly fun but remember there is negative leverage as well as positive leverage. I even heard that they might be teaching the risks of negative leverage at Harvard, MIT, Wharton, Yale and Stanford.

    When students are taught that they can walk on water with and elite degree, a taste of reality should be in curriculum before they go into investment banking and crush pension fund investments.
    Nov 10 12:01 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
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