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    Four Days of Rallies Turn Investors Heads

    We’re not getting to excited about these four days of rallying that we have seen of late. A number of reasons: 1) Volume is incredibly light 2) It’s a holiday week which means a lot of your big money is eating turkey rather than giving out buy/sell orders 3) We’re still in a bear market,

    |November 27, 2008|1 min read|
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    Commodity and Currency ProShares Ultras Hitting the Markets

    Just when you thought you couldn’t get enough of the Ultra ETF’s that are already out there, it looks like ProShares is coming out with new Ultra and Inverse Ultras for the Yen, Euro, Gold, Silver, and Oil. These will trade, depending on whether it is inverse or not, 200% or -200% to the index/commodity/currency

    |November 23, 2008|1 min read|
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    My Gains with QID, My Losses with QLD

    Over the past month we have gone long in two stocks: QID and QLD. Both of which are ProShares Ultras on the Nasdaq. QID is an UltraShort, and QID is an UltraLong. The benefit of these is, depending on the ETF you are trading in, you get a 2x for every gain or loss of

    |November 19, 2008|2 min read|
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    Direxion’s 3x Index ETF’s Hit the Stage

    Here are some new ETF’s that will be hitting the market tomorrow (11/5) in a ground-breaking fashion. These ETF’s will provide 3x the returns of a particular index that it is tracking or it will trade 3x inversely. I’m not sure as to how popular they will be right off the bat, but I’m sure

    |November 3, 2008|1 min read|
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    ETF Quick List

    Here’s a nice little cheat sheet to find the ETF to meet your investing and trading needs. While there are thousands of ETF’s out there, these are the ones that are most often traded in. We have them broken down by category so you find exactly what you need very quickly. Broad Market | Large-Cap

    |July 23, 2008|3 min read|