As soon as I saw the list of 799 financial stocks which were banned from shorting I was surprised that the financial ETFs, both long and short/inverse, were not of the SEC’s list. It struck me as very odd that the inverse instruments were still trading yesterday (they were halted for some time) and that [...]
Posted by 15 March 2007
List of Inverse ETFs (Short ETFs / Bear ETFs)
Today I started reading Michael Panzner’s newly released (and well-timed given the recent sub-prime mortgage drama) book Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes. Reading the potential for those four catastrophes got me thinking that at some point I may want to place some bearish bets in my IRA. Inverse ETFs are a [...]
Posted by 15 January 2007
Jan. 12, 2007 Recap and Stocks to Watch
Posted by 13 May 2006
May 12, 2006 Stock Market Recap
Posted by 17 December 2005
Beat the S&P 500 by Investing in the S&P 500
I saw this article in the January issue of Active Trader Magazine: “Trading a different S&P 500: The RSP vs. the SPY“. The RSP ETF contains the same 500 stocks that make up the S&P 500 but they are equally weighted as opposed to the S&P’s capitalization weighting. The interesting part is that the RSP [...]
