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Friday Roundup: Heavier Volume Sell-Off Again

David Fry (ETF Digest) submits: October 30, 2009 HEAVIER VOLUME SELL-OFF AGAIN Complete Story » Related Reading:ETF X-Ray: ULTI is Ultimately PricedETF Trends: Come Trade with Dr. FeelgoodETF Focus: This Kitty Could Roar Some MoreThere’s Black Gold in Them There ETFsState Street Files Application For 6 Active ETFs

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Why You Shouldn’t Hold Leveraged ETFs Long-Term

Jim Mahar submits: Last week I tweeted from the FMA conference about the luncheon speaker who pointed out the fact that levered ETFs that regularly relever are good at mirroring the market on a daily basis, but in the long term are bad bets since they are short an embedded option on Gamma which makes [...]

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ETF Followup and Fun Facts: CPI, GRES, OOK

Roger Nusbaum submits: A few days ago I wrote somewhat critically about the IQ CPI Inflation Hedged ETF (CPI) and IQ Arb Global Resources ETF (GRES) and said I would try to listen on the conference call IndexIQ was hosting to explain the funds. I was able to get to the call and did learn [...]

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ETF Market Trends: Resurgent U.S. Dollar Exacts Vengeance on Riskier Assets

J Clinton Hill submits: ETF Market Direction Summary: 10-28-2009 U.S. Equities: Selling was considerably stronger in Wednesday’s trading session and pushed the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite below their 50 day moving averages. The Dow Industrials surrendered its short-term uptrend status and reversed downward and is probing support at its 50 day moving average. Complete [...]

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Time Frames In Commodity Trading

In Commodity trading there are countless answers that need to be answered. The good news…is you get to decide…the bad news is that most commodity traders, stock traders or even forex traders never think of all the questions they need to answer and do not develop a trading plan. If you truly want to succeed [...]

October 30 2009 | Posted in Futures | Read More »