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What is the best way to short the market?

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October 19, 2009 – Comments (2) | RELATED TICKERS: PSQ , DOG , SH

I have been following the market for about a year now, and have had some success investing since last September and October in several long positions. I do not really see this as a major accomplishment because almost everything is up since last October. Anyway, I have stuck to investing in stocks, but I am wanting to venture out into deeper waters. 

 

I am new to CAPS, but I have been reading blogs for the last couple of weeks and am very excited about the wealth of knowledge and pleasant rivalries that exist. I was hoping some Fools out there could help me better understand how best to short the market. I have looked at some inverse ETF's, but I am not 100% clear as of how these work. 

 

Thanks for the help 

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#1) On October 19, 2009 at 2:53 AM, Racovius (84.62) wrote:

I have a general idea how those ETFs work, not hard to understand really. I've only been investing in stocks since February when I thought the market had bottomed. So I really don't have the right to explain how those Short ETFs work, as if I know what I'm doing. To give you a heads-up though, take a look at my "CAPS". I've red thumbed a few of those ETFs. There must be a rule against red thumbing Inverse ETFs, scoring points for CAPS is too easy doing that. I'm in the 80% percentile, alot of my points have been from "red thumbing" short ETFs. So I would say maybe take that into account when you decide to "short" the market.

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#2) On October 19, 2009 at 7:13 AM, devoish (99.65) wrote:

The best way is the Goldman Sachs way. - with somebody elses money.

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