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Rising Options Prices Could Be Propelling Stock Swings	Tennille Tracy reports: The options market has become an expensive place to do business in recent days, and that could be contributing to wild swings in the stock market. The options market often serves as a buffer to the stock market, providing a venue for investors to protect their stock portfolios or speculate on future moves without actually buying or selling stock. In recent days, however, the prices of options have skyrocketed — in part because volatility in the market has flown of...	October 10, 2008
Contrarian Trading Tips: Gold, the Dollar, Energy and Financials	In the short-term, sentiment and emotion rule the markets more than fundamentals. This type of trading pushes stock prices to extremes, whether the extreme is overbought or oversold. As a contrarian investor, I like to trade against these extremes and invest in the opposite direction of the herd. The wild action in markets, the dollar, gold and financials over the past few weeks leaves the door open for a few contrarian trades that I will be looking to make as trading opens this week. 1) Financi...	August 11, 2008
Thanks, Chris! Love, ProShares	It is, of course, an ill wind that blows nobody any good, and the balmier breezes of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s emergency short-selling order wafted up Wisconsin Ave, all the way to Bethesda, Md, and the offices of leveraged/inverse ETF provider ProShares (SKF). To the tune of a cool 70 percent gain — from $2.0 billion to $3.4 billion — in the assets of SKF, the double-inverse financial sector ETF, between Jul. 15 and Jul. 29. Counter-intuitively, the largest s...	August 01, 2008
Europe to Follow U.S. Trends in Leveraged and Inverse ETFs	Leveraged and inverse exchange traded funds (ETFs) are two sectors in the U.S. ETF market that have experienced a boom over the past couple of years. According to a report on “ETF Liquidity Trends” filed by Deutsche Bank on July 22, inverse (short) and leveraged ETFs generated the third- and sixth-highest turnover levels respectively. Paul Amery of IndexUniverse notes that in this same report by Deutsche Bank, there were 18 leveraged and 18 inverse ETFs in Europe, which represents ro...	July 30, 2008
Crunching the Numbers With Financial ETFs	As financials continue to struggle, related exchange traded funds (ETFs) may feel the repercussions. Yesterday, financials continued to decline as Merrill Lynch (MER) shares dropped almost 10%, bringing the entire sector lower amid fears over credit quality and the housing sector. Today, things are looking a little brighter, as most ETFs in the sector are up once again. For example, the Financial Select Sector SPDR (XLF) is up by more than 4% midday. Over the weekend, U.S. lawmakers passed a res...	July 29, 2008
Bears And Short ETFs Out Roaming For The Summer	Despite the appearances of the last few weeks that included some strong days, there are still some hungry bears roaming in the marketplace and looking for some exchange traded funds (ETFs) to snack on. ETFGuide reports that in general, the accepted definition of a bear market is a 20% decline over at least a two-month period. Volatile days such as the one we had yesterday only go to show that we’re still in choppy waters. Given the stomach-churning ups and downs of the markets of late, bea...	July 29, 2008
Fast Money Recap	Trade Off Merrill Lynch Charlie Gasparino joined the traders to discuss Merrill Lynch (MER). He explained that Merrill announced its raising a lot capital after they said they didn’t need to. The company said Singapore-based Temasek Holdings agreed to buy $3.4 billion of new Merrill shares and Merrill’s management plans to buy 750,000 shares of common stock. Gasparino said the move will dilute shareholders and it goes against what John Thain said he would do a year ago if the brokera...	July 28, 2008
Leveraged ETFs Have Wild Week	Last week we featured a list of the short and leveraged ETFs offered by ProShares. Below we highlight the same list with their performance so far this week. The major loser this week has been the Ultrashort Financials ETF (SKF). When financials go down, this one goes up by twice as much. When financials go up, this one goes down twice as much. Owners of SKF have definitely had a painful week after some major reversals in many banks and brokers. However, if the...	July 18, 2008
Leveraged ETFs Have Wild Week	Last week we featured a list of the short and leveraged ETFs offered by ProShares. Below we highlight the same list with their performance so far this week. The major loser this week has been the Ultrashort Financials ETF (SKF). When financials go down, this one goes up by twice as much. When financials go up, this one goes down... ...	July 18, 2008
No Offense Mexico, But We Want Our Currency To Look Like Yours	George Bush and Bernake love the pretty pictures on the Mexican currrency and all the jingling from coins. Jim Rogers sums up how this all is playing out and why the market won’t rally on Fed moves: I don’t know where these guys get the audacity to take our money, taxpayer money, and buy stock in Fannie Mae,” Rogers, 65, said in an interview from Singapore. “So we’re going to bail out everybody else in the world. And it ruins the Federal Reserve’s balance sh...	July 14, 2008

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