Posts Tagged ‘leverage’

Leveraged ETF’s: Heads I Lose; Tails I Lose

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 19:38 No Comments

Some of ProShares leveraged ETF’s have not been keeping up with the underlying index it claims to follow. We ran a quick study of the Pro Shares financial ETF’s and found that over the last couple of months, an investor would have lost money regardless if he bought the bull market of bear market ETF.
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The Bull Market in Bear Market ETF’s

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 19:46 No Comments

Short ETF’s are the big winners in 2008.
The following ETF’s are among the top performing index funds for all of 2008. It should come as no surprise that each of them short (bet against) the market. This bunch, in particular, actually does so by using leverage and gives the investor exposure to twice the [...]

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