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Short Treasury ETF

Jan.10, 2011 in ETF Comments Off on Short Treasury ETF

During the financial downturn and the ensuing recession treasuries rallied sharply sending bond yields to their lowest level since the early 70’s.  Now that the economy has begun to come back to life and the fed stimulus has driven commodity prices to multi-year highs, bond yields are beginning to rise.  This has caused investors to […]

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Leveraged Short ETFs Are Worst Performers In 2010

Dec.21, 2010 in ETF, Investment Thoughts Comments Off on Leveraged Short ETFs Are Worst Performers In 2010

2010 was another tough year for any Short ETF but it was especially tough for the leveraged Short ETFs. UltraShort Silver was the worst performer as silver soared on strong investor demand and QE2. Here are just a few examples of YTD performance as of 12/21/2010: ZSL – Ultrashort Silver was down over 74% DRV […]

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