I know what I am doing. I know and accept the downside risk. The leverage of these securities means I do not need to use expensive margin debt or enter into risky short sales. I am delighted with these products.
Stop. This is none of your business and you don't know what you're doing. An efficient market needs investors on both sides of a trade....buyers and sellers, long and short, who are responsible for their trades. Not you.
Stop chipping away on our rights! Everyone has the right to invest and it must stay that way! The efforts of turning this country from a democracy into an oligarchy are are very see through and nothing short of illegal.
Leveraged and inverse funds are an important part of my investment strategy. I'm reluctant to be a short seller given the risk, however, with an inverse fund, I can still grow my portfolio in an overall downtrend.
Comments: My comment is I study the markets daily and I have a MBA in Finance. I understand the risks of the leveraged and inverse ETFS. I trade the products as part of a comprehensive overall strategy on a short term trade basis.
Inverse funds are helpfully in a down market. I am using one with success. They are an alternate for shorting in retirement accounts. However, I believe some details in how they are structured could make them more useful.
A license to sell leveraged ETFs, and specifically inverse ETF's, is a license to steal. Period. It should be a requirement that any designed financial instrument show in the prospectus how an investor may actually make money not just the risks of loosing it. Take TVIX, a long term chart shows in 2011 the price was 2,235,849,984, today its value is $112 dollars. A loosing investment start to
All short interest and FTDs need to be reported on a daily basis. Individual investors deserve to know what is going on with their stocks, especially when the entire system is computerized.
I think for a fair and free market it is important that all short positions are reported, why does one side need to be reported but not the other. Let's make it a fair table.
Yes on 21-19 we all need more transparency in short positions and FTD data. In real time would be nice to truly make it a fair and free market.
