UltraShort Russell 2000 ProShares (AMEX:TWM)

ProShares UltraShort Russell2000 seeks daily investment results, before fees and expenses, that correspond to twice (200%) the inverse (opposite) of the daily performance of the Russell 2000 Index.

Russell is one of the first to go down

Following TMFEldrehad's lead and my own feeling that the markets will generally rise through the national election... no other analysis done.

poop

short ETF, russell 2000, market's heading down

The leverage in these along with rebalancing and management costs, plus the long-term upward trend in markets makes them poor performers over the long term. Easy red thumb points.

Covestor Model Manager Andrew Laubie sold TWM in his Russold 2000 Long-Short Covestor Model ( http://covestor.com/Andrew-Laubie )

don't buy any ultrashort. they have sky high expense ratios and are guaranteed to lose whether the market moves up, fluctuates, or even move down while fluctuating. Ultrashort etfs are okay if you are a day trader, but they will definitely lose over the long term.

d1davidtiming

Housing will continue to be in a slump and government at all levels and all around the globe will be struggling to pay off debt. Any "growth" will probably be due to printing money to fight deflation. It will not be real growth. Consumers will continue to protect themselves by controlling their spending. All this adds up to a lower stock market.

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Ultra-shorts and Ultra-pros are all bad investments due to daily rebalancing

This market is way overbought and it is time for a much needed correction. S&P P/E is at all time highs and needs about a 20% correction. In closing, I like whiskey

I recently ran into this article on an Ultra oil ETF strategy:

http://www.howtowriteoptions.com/ultra-covered-call-strategy-fails

By shorting each side of the Long/Short ETFs I will eventually come up on the positive end. Not sure how effective this will be in real life but long term on CAPs combo-ing these ETF is a sure winner.

I think all of these Ultras are going to crash hard. I have received several warnings from my broker on the risk of these funds and some of my friend’s brokers will not even execute transactions on these.

Depression

small caps are doomed

short term correction to the downside

UltraShort Russell 2000 ProShares (TWM)
49.55 -1.99 (-3.86%)
5/14/2009 12:22 PM
52 week $44.24-$180.64

Testing a theory here with this account, shorting all short ProShares for starters.