Direxion Shares ETF Trust Small Cap Bear 3x (AMEX:TZA)

The fund seeks daily investment results, before fees and expenses, of 300% of the inverse (or opposite) of the price performance of the Russell 2000 Index.

5/18/12 was an extremely oversold condition in the markets. We will either get a rally or neutral market for the next quarter. Either way a short on volatility will generate alpha and leveraged ETF's get destroyed by a drop in volatility.

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Love betting against the leveraged ETFs, these guys degrade with time. Also a bet on the long-term upward trend of markets.

Inverse + Leverged + Daily Matching = Ugly Compounding

May not be 5 years but this ETF will perform well because the market is set up for a nosedive to 2009 prices.

bullish for now. good earnings and low interest rates.

short-term hedge against market correction.

This kind of triple ETF will always underperform over the long run due to the way it is constructed. Note: I am not saying you cannot make any money holding this ETF, just that over a prolonged time it will lose money. I have now harvested positive scores on a 3x ETF and its inverse 28 times, yielding 490 points and 50 for 50 on my accuracy (6 times my harvested score was positive, but dropped below the magic +5 number).

The long-term value of this ETF is approximately zero. In fact, it will probably decline considerably in an year. (See FAZ and friends).

Bottom falling out of the market ... this should garner some profit ... maybe. Timing is key.

we are in a fake economy and the market will show its true colors soon enough!!!

Done. Mistake from the beginning.

EU Crisis on the horizon, end of QE2. Dollar should rise.

This year sell in May and go away will happen, a pullback is comming

3x small cap bear ETF
underperform reason: shorting the ultrashorts long term == free CAPS points.

Don't like the etf symbol.....LOL...

Time's up, the pumping in almost over.

When you look at the internal costs and statistics of these leveraged instruments, they must all underperform the market over time. If I could, I would short them in real life.