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You Can Make Over 100% with Silver Call Options

Contrarian Profits — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:05:53 +0000

pSilver is a great investment right now and prices could easily shoot above $20 per ounce by the end of this year. I predict that with the right call options on silver you can make over 100% before the end of the year.br / In just a moment I’ll give you all the information you need to take action on an options pick on silver with explosive profit potential. But first, I want to explain why silver will blast higher./p pSilver is a precious metal therefore it does great when people get worried about the stock market, inflation and geopolitical risk./p pSilver is a hard asset that holds its value in inflationary times and maintains its purchasing power. We could see a steep rise#8230;/p

Peru ETF to Start Trading This Month

ETF Daily News — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:48:34 +0000

June 3 (Bloomberg) — Peru’s first Exchange Traded Fund will start trading on the New York Stock Exchange by the “middle of June,” said the chief executive officer of Global X Management Company LLC, a New York-based asset manager. “The stock market has risen a lot, investors are bullish, and that’s helping us,” Bruno del Ama, [...]

The Russia Pick I Recommended to You Is Up 39 in 53 Days

Contrarian Profits — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:50:20 +0000

pFor quite some time I was interested in recommending that my readers invest in Russia. I still had concerns about some political issues and organized crime in the country. Most experts out there tell people to stay away from Russia, so I knew I had to do further research myself./p pOne day I told my lovely wife to get her passport ready because we were going to Moscow. She was quite excited because Moscow is a shopping mecca with many historical sites to see. But, I assure you—I was there for business./p pWe traveled to Russia in December of last year and I saw firsthand how the country operates. I observed that the Russians are a hard working and productive people that#8230;/p

Invest In The Brazilian ETF Now!

ETF Daily News — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:48:06 +0000

The Brazilian stock market is on fire right now and they are immune to a lot of the ills that America is suffering from, like exposure to toxic assets. Make sure you put a small portion of your portfolio into emerging markets like Brazil. My article for Investor’s Daily Edge on 04/09/09 recommended the iShares MSCI [...]

Invest in Brazil Now!

Contrarian Profits — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:05:13 +0000

pThe Brazilian stock market is on fire right now and they are immune to a lot of the ills that America is suffering from, like exposure to toxic assets. Make sure you put a small portion of your portfolio into emerging markets like Brazil./p pMy article for a href="http://www.investorsdailyedge.com" class="alinks_links"Investor’s Daily Edge/a on 04/09/09 recommended the a href="http://www.investorsdailyedge.com/best-ways-to-invest-in-the-brics.html" target="_blank"iShares MSCI Brazil Index/a (strongEWZ/strong). This Exchange Traded Fund holds a nice basket of Brazilian stocks and seeks to mirror the Brazilian stock market as measured by the MSCI Brazil index./p pIf you took my advice, you’d have seen a big short-term gain as the Brazilian ETF rose over 22% in less than two months. Our staff here at Investor’s Daily Edge strives to give you information that can help#8230;/p

India’s Election is Great for Indian Stocks

Contrarian Profits — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:30:38 +0000

pIndia’s weekend election gives the ruling Congress Party a big win and paves the way for economic reforms./p pIndia’s ruling Congress Party has a goal of helping India’s poor and pushes free-market reforms./p pAfter this election, India is apt to open up its retail, insurance and banking sectors to more foreign investment. Moreover, the government may reduce its ownership in refineries, banks and fertilizer companies./p pThis election could pave the way for a large amount of capital to flow into Indian stocks./p pBombay Stock Exchange stocks are taking off as investors look optimistically at a critical election victory for the Congress Party-led alliance./p pThe best way to play India: PowerShares India (NYSE: a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=PIN"PIN/a). This Exchange Traded Fund holds a nice basket of Indian stocks and#8230;/p

Commodities Are The Best Place To Be For The Next Decade

Contrarian Profits — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:30:17 +0000

pWhy invest in commodities? Two and a half billion people are going to live like Americans in the next 20 years and prices go up over time, that’s the nature of inflation./p pWe are in the middle of a global economic crisis and commodities are on sale. Buy commodities now while they are still cheap. When we finally emerge from this global economic crisis — prices will explode higher. I’m talking about another long-term bull market in commodities. Let me explain…/p pstrongInflation Will Push Commodities Prices Higher /strong/p pOur Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is an inflationist, which is an advocate of the policy of deliberate inflation achieved by increasing the supply of available currency and credit. They call him helicopter Ben because#8230;/p

Would You Be Interested in Earning a Steady 15% a Year?

Contrarian Profits — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:47:57 +0000

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Guest Article: Green – The Secret to Resurrecting Your Nest Egg in 2009

Fred Fuld — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:07:00 +0000

Green: The Secret to Resurrecting Your Nest Egg in 2009. br /By Natalie Pace, author of a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593154917?ie=UTF8tag=antiquestocka-20linkCode=as2camp=1789creative=9325creativeASIN=1593154917"Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is: Investment Strategies for Lifetime Wealth from a #1 Wall Street Stock Picker/aimg src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=antiquestocka-20l=as2o=1a=1593154917" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /br /Date: January 27, 2009br /br /Did you know that clean energy was the top performing industry in 2007, returning almost sixty cents on the dollar for investors? That was almost double the returns of the 2nd highest performing industry -- oil and gas -- at 32 cents for each dollar invested. And, thanks to President Obama’s American Reinvestment and Recovery Plan, clean energy is poised to be the top performer again in 2009. br /br /In his first White House blog, dated January 24, 2009, President Obama wrote that his Recovery and Reinvestment Plan will “invest in our most important priorities like energy and education.” The details of the plan, which President Obama is currently lobbying with Congressional members, is available online at WhiteHouse.gov and includes the following target expenditures:br /br /Recovery and Reinvestment Plan of 2009br /1. Create or save three to four million jobs over the next two years “in a range of industries from clean energy to health care”br /2. Launch a Clean Energy Finance Initiative to leverage $100 billion in private sector clean energy investments over three yearsbr /3. Double renewable energy generating capacity over three yearsbr /4. Modernize “more than 75% of federal building space, saving taxpayers $2 billion per year in lower federal energy bills”br /5. Modernize 10,000 schoolsbr /br /Now, for those who are skeptical of Washington’s ability to get anything done before the next Ice Age, returns on green investing are not just dependent upon the President’s ability to win votes with Congress. There is a worldwide push for clean energy. In fact, Europe, Eastern Europe and China are far more proactive about greening their grid than the U.S. br /br /Germany was one of the first countries to embrace solar energy with its “family program.” Solar panels were installed on many homes in that country over the last five years. Germany’s team, Technische Universität Darmstadt, even won the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon competition in 2007! The next Solar Decathlon will be held on the Washington Mall in Washington D.C. October 9 through 18, 2009, where 20 international teams will compete to design and build the most attractive, energy-efficient solar-powered house.br /br /Link:br /a href="http://www.solardecathlon.org/"http://www.solardecathlon.org//abr /br /China launched a new clean energy initiative, “Electric Vehicles for Ten Cities,” on January 6, 2009, which will put 1000 electric cars per year for three years in each of ten target cities. (Now if those were Tesla Roadsters, I might just move to one of those cities myself!) On Monday, January 26, 2009, the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced a plan to achieve solar energy as China’s dominant energy source by 2050. Other European and Eastern European countries are modeling Germany’s incentives to jumpstart their own clean energy plan and are committed to powering their grid with renewable energy with large-scale solar harvesting projects.br /br /Europe, Eastern Europe and China are the biggest clean energy customers to date, accounting for the strongest sales growth in any industry on Wall Street over the past three years. Solar giants, like Suntech Power Holdings, MEMC Electronics and LDK Solar are profitable, with a strong backlog of orders and high profit margins, at 12%, 20% and 24% respectively. MEMC Electronics (a silicon manufacturer) sales were $2 billion in 2008, up from $1.5 billion in 2006. Suntech’s 2008 sales were $1.8 billion, compared to $600 million in 2006. LDK Solar’s sales have exploded from $105 million in 2007 to a projected $750 million in 2008. br /br /On January 5, 2009, Xiaofeng Peng, Chairman and CEO of LDK Solar, reported, “Our operations remain at full capacity, with contract backlog remaining strong for 2009." The LDK Solar sales expectations for 2009 are $2.3 to $2.5 billion. br /br /So, while most industries worldwide are contracting, and many, like real estate and banks, are showing catastrophic losses, solar energy is profitable, growing – largely on worldwide government incentives and investment -- and healthy. Electric cars and component industries, like lithium mining and lithium ion battery makers, aren’t profitable yet, but the winds are favorable for growth and government incentives worldwide as well.br /br /There is one trick to investing green, however. As I outline in my new book, Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is, the challenge of investing in an industry that is exploding with potential and new technology innovations, is that when innovation is occurring rapidly, it’s difficult to predict a clear winner because tomorrow’s invention could create a new breakout technology. Additionally, clean energy has been around since the 1970s and some legacy corporations are carrying too much debt to compete with the new stalwarts, many of which are based out of China. For these reasons, a clean energy Exchange Traded Fund (ETF), which owns a basket of clean energy companies, is a better policy for most investors than picking an individual stock. br /br /4 Key Steps to Adding Green to your Nest Egg:br /br /1. Include a Green ETF as one of 10 diversified Exchange Traded Funds in your nest egg. br /2. Keep a percent equal to your age, plus 15-20%, SAFE, i.e. not invested in the stock market, since we’re in a recession.br /3. The safest place for your money in 2009 is Treasury bills and high rated bonds. br /4. Rebalance twice a year to capture gains and buy into underperforming ETFs.br /br /Remember to “overweight” 20% safe in 2009, since we’re in a recession, keeping 70% safe if you are 50, and 50% safe if you are 30, etc.br /br /For more nest egg strategies that work in bull and bear markets, buy and read my new book, Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is.br / br /span style="font-weight:bold;"span style="font-style:italic;"About Natalie Pace:/span/spanbr /Natalie Pace, is the author of a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593154917?ie=UTF8tag=antiquestocka-20linkCode=as2camp=1789creative=9325creativeASIN=1593154917"Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is: Investment Strategies for Lifetime Wealth from a #1 Wall Street Stock Picker/aimg src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=antiquestocka-20l=as2o=1a=1593154917" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /, a featured teacher in the movie, Spiritual Liberation, and CEO of one of the most respected, independently owned financial news corporations in the U.S. She has been ranked as a #1 stock picker from TipsTraders.com and has partnered content with Forbes.com, Sohu.com, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance and more. She has appeared on Fox News, Good Morning America, Time Magazine, More Magazine, USA Today, NPR and national radio shows. For more information please visit, http://www.nataliepace.com.br /span style="font-style:italic;"Published with the permission of the publicist./spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"div class='adsense' style='text-align:center; padding: 0px 3px 0.5em 3px;' script type="text/javascript"!-- google_ad_client="ca-pub-2427831169011625"; google_ad_width=300; google_ad_height=250; google_ad_format="300x250_as"; google_ad_type="text"; google_ad_channel ="8681602088"; google_color_border="FFF3DB"; google_color_bg="FFF3DB"; google_color_link="1B0431"; google_color_url="1B0431"; google_color_text="29303B"; //--/script script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" /script /div

Proshares UltraShort Financials (NYSE:SKF): Stock of the Day

Investment U — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:10:02 +0000

Proshares UltraShort Financials (NYSE:SKF): Stock of the Day by David Fessler, Advisory Panelist, Investment U When Bad is Good We’re nearly a month into the New Year, the United States has a new President, and many investors are looking forward with more than a little trepidation. They’re wondering if it’s at all possible to eke out a few [...]

Triple Your Market Returns With Leveraged ETFs

Rick Pendergraft — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:08:44 +0000

pInvestors can now trade triple-leveraged ETFs. That means three times the return (or loss) of the underlying index. Rick Pendergraft says stocks could be in line for a major rally in the first half of 2009. If it does, the strongLarge Cap Bull 3x Shares ETF/strong (NYSE:a title="Open a new browser window to find out more" href="http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ABGU" target="_blank"BGU/a) will ensure huge profits for investors willing to #8220;think big#8221;./p pThis from Investor#8217;s Daily Edge:/p blockquotepWhat is my top pick for 2009? It is a new Exchange Traded Fund from a group called Direxion Funds. The people at Direxion have taken ETFs to a new level they are offering funds that have triple the leverage of the underlying index./p pWhat does this mean? It means that if you have one of these ETFs and the index goes#8230;/p/blockquote

Six Ways to Make Money in Bear Markets

Fred Fuld — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:00:00 +0000

There are lots of ways to make money from a falling stock market, some speculative, and some not so risky. And it is a good thing too, because small investors need a way to protect themselves, and even make money on the downside. Hopefully, the stock market is near the bottom, but if it has a long way to go before it finishes dropping, then here are several options to choose from.br /br /span style="font-weight:bold;"1. Shorting Stocks/spanbr /br /OK, let's get this one over with first because it is one of the most speculative ways of making money in a bear market. In simple terms, you make money when the stock goes down and you lose money when the stock goes up. What technically happens is that you borrow the shares and immediately sell them (this all is done electronically through your brokerage firm) and since you owe those shares, you eventually have to buy them back at some price, hopefully a lower price. The difference between your sale price and eventual purchase price is your profit.br /br /Can you make a lot of money shorting stocks in a bear market? Yes. Is it speculative? Very. Can you lose a lot? Most definitely. This is why it is so risky. When you short a stock, the lowest point it can drop to is zero. Whereas, if the stock goes up, the amount it can rise is unlimited. Let's say you short 100 shares of a stock at $20 a share. If you put up funds equal to 100% of the value of the shorted amount, and the stock drops to zero, you've made a 100% return. However, suppose the stock goes from 20 to 100, you end up losing 400% of your money with lots of margin calls along the way. br /br /Have I shorted stocks? Yes. Have I made money from shorting? Yes, especially during the last few months. Have I lost a big chunk of my profits by closing out my short positions and going long, trying to predict the bottom a few weeks ago? In the interest of full disclosure, yes. I made the second worse decision I could have made when shorting, and that is predicting the bottom of the market too soon. The worst decision would have been to hold on to my short positions after the market bottoms and starts to make a quick rise. Often when the market bottoms at the end of a bear market, the rise is very sharp and fast, and can totally wipe out short position profits very quickly and then some.br /br /But even on a short term basis, an investor can lose money very fast. A friend of mine, who is a trader, told me that he does a lot of shorting but always hedges his shorts by buying calls to protect himself in case the stock moves up. When I told him that I never hedge my individual stock shorts, he said "You're kidding! I never give advice to anyone, but I'm going to give you some advice. Never short a stock without hedging. You might be watching the market, then get up and go to the bathroom, come back a half hour later and discover that you've been wiped out!" br /br /Even though my bathroom breaks are not that long, he does have a good point. A few months ago, shortly after I shorted a high stock price real estate investment trust, the position went against me by 13 points. That's a $1,300 loss for every hundred shares in one day! I still had the short position after the market closed, and had the pleasure of trying to sleep at night, wondering if there was going to be a takeover the next morning or some other good news that would drive the price even higher, making my losses worse.br /br /So in summery, do I think you should short stocks? Absolutely not. The risk is unbelievable. If you understand options real well, hedged short selling might be OK, as long as you are an advanced trader, and know what you're doing.br /br /span style="font-weight:bold;"2. Short (Bearish) ETFs/spanbr /br /A new financial animal appeared on the scene a few years ago, a type of Exchange Traded Fund called the Bearish ETF or Short ETF. What these ETFs do is provide a return opposite to the return of the index, sector or industry that it is tracking. br /br /A list of a href="http://WallStreetNewsNetwork.com"15 bearish ETFs/a can be found at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com. For example, the Short Dow30 ProShares (DOG) provides a return that is the inverse of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. If the Dow goes down 2%, the DOG goes up 2%. The Short QQQ ProShares (PSQ) ETF gives a return that is the inverse of the NASDAQ 100 Index. If you are bearish on gold, you can buy the PowerShares DB Gold Short ETN (BGZ) ETF. br /br /The nice thing about these short ETFs is that your losses are limited. Also, if you are long individual stocks that you don't want to sell, these can be good for protecting your portfolio on the downside. br /br /span style="font-weight:bold;"3. Leveraged Bearish ETFs/spanbr /br /If you like volatility, you will love the leveraged bearish ETFs. What these ETFs do is provide double, and in some cases triple the inverse return of indices. a href="http://WallStreetNewsNetwork.com"WallStreetNewsNetwork.com/a has a list of 40 leveraged bearish ETFs, such as the UltraShort Telecommunications ProShares (TLL), the Rydex Inverse 2x SP Select Sector Health (RHO), the UltraShort Consumer Services ProShares (SCC) and the Rydex Inverse 2x SP Select Sector Tech (RTW). br /br /In addition there are a href="http://WallStreetNewsNetwork.com"four triple leveraged bearish ETFs/a. Talk about price moves! The volatility of these things is unbelievable, and so are the wide bid and asked spreads that I've seen occasionally. br /br /The advantage of these trading vehicles is that they are a way of shorting on margin, with a limit on the downside. The disadvantage is that the losses are quick and large, especially with the triple leverage short ETFs.br /span style="font-weight:bold;"br /4. Bear Funds/spanbr /br /It may be hard to believe, but there are actually a large number of bearish mutual funds for the long term bearish investors. WallStreetNewsNetwork.com came up with a href="http://WallStreetNewsNetwork.com"30 bear funds/a, including the Grizzly Short Fund (GRZZX), the PIMCO StocksPlus TR Short Strategy Institutional Fund (PSTIX), and the ProFunds Bear Investors Fund (BRPIX). These funds have minimum investments ranging from $1,000 to $5,000,000. br /br /I'm not sure why anyone would invest in these unless it is for some kind of a long term hedge, and these days, who's investing long term?br /br /span style="font-weight:bold;"5. Puts/spanbr /br /A put is the option to put your stock to someone at a particular price within a certain period of time. In other words, if you own a stock that is trading at 22 and you buy a put at a dollar [puts and calls are priced on a per share basis, so a put at $1 would cost $100 for 100 shares] which gives you the right to put your stock to someone at $20 per share within three months, there are a couple of things that could happen. The stock could tank to $14 a share and you could put your stock at 20, or just resell the put for 6. You would be far better off than just doing nothing. And if the stock goes up or stays about the same, you are just out your $100 for the option. Puts can be useful for experienced traders.br /br /span style="font-weight:bold;"6. Cash/spanbr /br /There is one other way to make money in a bear market. Sell everything, and keep your money in cash, preferably a T-bill money market fund, that only owns T-bills. (Repos are supposed to be just as safe, but these days, I would look for the ones that just own the T-bills.) The advantages are that you can't lose money and you can receive an income from the investment. br /br /I've been putting off writing this article because I kept thinking that we were so close to the market bottom that making money in a bear market would be a moot point, yet the market kept on dropping. Maybe now that I've published this article, it will really be the market bottom, and you can save this article for the next bear market in six or seven years.br /br /iAuthor does not own any of the above mentioned securities./ibr /br /By a href="http://Stockerblog.com"Stockerblog.com/a.div class="blogger-post-footer"div class='adsense' style='text-align:center; padding: 0px 3px 0.5em 3px;' script type="text/javascript"!-- google_ad_client="ca-pub-2427831169011625"; google_ad_width=300; google_ad_height=250; google_ad_format="300x250_as"; google_ad_type="text"; google_ad_channel ="8681602088"; google_color_border="FFF3DB"; google_color_bg="FFF3DB"; google_color_link="1B0431"; google_color_url="1B0431"; google_color_text="29303B"; //--/script script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" /script /div

First Trust, iPath Migrate To NYSE Arca

IndexUniverse Staff — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:09:27 +0000

Last week, NYSE completed its acquisition of the Amex, prompting more consolidation within the industry.

The parade of exchange-traded products over to NYSE Arca is continuing this week, with First Trust Portfolios and iPath transferring exchange-traded portfolios to NYSE from the American Stock Exchange.

Since the NYSE announced its acquisition of the Amex, it has been as if July Fourth came early to the ETF world, with many providers moving portfolios to the NYSE Arca platform en masse.

Last week, NYSE completed its acquisition of Amex, and with the closing of the deal, cemented its position as the largest ETF platform: NYSE Arca now hosts 680 of the total 813 industry ETFs, and more than $320 billion in exchange-traded product assets (see story).

In the most recent ETF moves related to the NYSE-Amex deal, Barclays said it will transfer its iPath CBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite Index ETN to NYSE Arca as of October 31.

Barclays expects to move all Amex-listed ETNs and ETFs to NYSE Arca by the end of October.

The Vanguard Group, among other ETF providers, also recently moved a slate of ETFs over to NYSE Arca (see story).

In the case of First Trust, the ETF parade is slated for the first week of November, with 29 portfolios in all moving over to the NYSE Arca platform. The affected ETFs are:

First Trust Dow Jones Select MicroCap Index^SM Fund (FDM)

First Trust Morningstar^® Dividend Leaders^SM Index Fund (FDL)

First Trust IPOX-100 Index Fund (FPX)

First Trust Amex Biotechnology Index Fund (FBT)

First Trust Dow Jones Internet Index^SM Fund (FDN)

First Trust DB Strategic Value Index Fund (FDV)

First Trust Value Line^® Equity Allocation Index Fund (FVI)

First Trust Value Line^® Dividend Index Fund (FVD)

First Trust S&P REIT Index Fund (FRI)

First Trust Value Line^® 100 Exchange-Traded Fund (FVL)

First Trust DJ STOXX^® Select Dividend 30 Index Fund (FDD)

First Trust FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Global Real Estate Index Fund (FFR)

First Trust Dow Jones Global Select Dividend Index Fund (FGD)

First Trust Consumer Discretionary AlphaDEX^® Fund (FXD)

First Trust Consumer Staples AlphaDEX^®Fund (FXG)

First Trust Energy AlphaDEX^® Fund (FXN)

First Trust Financials AlphaDEX^® Fund (FXO)

First Trust Health Care AlphaDEX^® Fund (FXH)

First Trust Industrials/Producer Durables AlphaDEX^® Fund (FXR)

First Trust Materials AlphaDEX^®Fund (FXZ)

First Trust Technology AlphaDEX^®Fund (FXL)

First Trust Utilities AlphaDEX^®Fund (FXU)

First Trust Large Cap Core AlphaDEX^®Fund (FEX)

First Trust Mid Cap Core AlphaDEX^®Fund (FNX)

First Trust Small Cap Core AlphaDEX^® Fund (FYX)

First Trust Large Cap Growth Opportunities AlphaDEX^®Fund (FTC)

First Trust Large Cap Value Opportunities AlphaDEX^® Fund (FTA)

First Trust Multi Cap Growth AlphaDEX^® Fund (FAD)

First Trust Multi Cap Value AlphaDEX^® Fund (FAB)

How to Double Your Return in a Rising Market (without margin, without calls)

Fred Fuld — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:39:00 +0000

If you think the stock market has bottomed, there is a way to double your return of the rise in the market, without buying stocks on margin, and without buying call options. You can do that by buying Ultra ETF's.

An ETF or Exchange Traded Fund is structured to track various stock indices, and the Ultra ETFs are structured to provide double the performance of those indices. Most are traded on the American Stock Exchange. Depending on the ETF, it may even pay a yield. Here are several Ultra ETF's which will should rise by twice as much as the index that are tracking. You just need to pick the Ultra ETF for the sector or index that you think should perform the best.

Ultra Basic Materials ProShares (UYM) has a goal of producing twice the performance of the Dow Jones U.S. Basic Materials index.

Ultra Consumer Goods ProShares (UGE) has a goal of producing twice the performance of the Dow Jones U.S. Consumer Goods index.

Ultra Consumer Services ProShares (UCC) has a goal of producing twice the performance of the Dow Jones U.S. Consumer Services index.

Ultra Dow30 ProShares (DDM) has a goal of producing twice the performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Ultra Financials ProShares (UYG) has a goal of producing twice the performance of the Dow Jones U.S. Financials index.

Ultra Health Care ProShares (RXL) has a goal of producing twice the performance of the Dow Jones U.S. Health Care index.

Ultra Industrials ProShares (UXI) has a goal of producing twice the performance of the Dow Jones U.S. Industrials index.

Ultra MidCap400 ProShares (MVV) has a goal of producing twice the performance of the S&P MidCap 400 index.

Ultra Oil & Gas ProShares (DIG) has a goal of producing twice the performance of the Dow Jones U.S. Oil & Gas index.

Ultra QQQ ProShares (QLD) has a goal of producing twice the performance of the NASDAQ 100 Index.

Ultra Real Estate ProShares (URE) has a goal of producing twice the performance of the Dow Jones U.S. Real Estate index.

Ultra Russell MidCap Growth ProShares (UKW) has a goal of producing twice the performance of the Russell MidCap Growth index.

Ultra Russell MidCap Value Proshares (UVU) has a goal of producing twice the performance of the Russell MidCap Value index.

Ultra Russell1000 Growth ProShares (UKF) has a goal of producing twice the performance of the Russell 1000 Growth index.

Ultra Russell1000 Value ProShares (UVG) has a goal of producing twice the performance of the Russell 1000 index.

Ultra Russell2000 Growth ProShares (UKK) has a goal of producing twice the performance of the Russell 2000 Growth index.

Ultra Russell2000 ProShares (UWM) has a goal of producing twice the performance of the Russell 2000 index.

Ultra Russell2000 Value ProShares (UVT) has a goal of producing twice the performance of the Russell 2000 Value index.

Ultra S&P SmallCap600 ProShares (SAA) has a goal of producing twice the performance of the S&P SmallCap 600 Index.

Ultra S&P500 ProShares (SSO) has a goal of producing twice the performance of the S&P 500 index.

Ultra Semiconductor ProShares (USD) has a goal of producing twice the performance of the Dow Jones U.S. Semiconductor index.

Ultra Technology ProShares (ROM) has a goal of producing twice the performance of the Dow Jones U.S. Technology index.

Ultra Telecommunications ProShares (LTL) has a goal of producing twice the performance of the Dow Jones U.S. Telecommunications index.

Ultra Utilities ProShares (UPW) has a goal of producing twice the performance of the Dow Jones U.S. Utilities index.

If you want to be really aggressive, you can consider investing in the UltraShort ETFs, which are structured to provide twice the return [or loss] from the movement in the index. Or if you just want to protect yourself on the downside, you can invest in regular short ETFs. You can also find an Excel database of short ETFs, which can be downloaded, sorted, and changed, at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.

Author does not own any of the above.

By Fred Fuld at Stockerblog.com

How to Make Money in a Falling Stock Market (without shorting, without puts)

Fred Fuld — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:51:00 +0000

Many investors believe that we are in a bear market, and they want to profit from that situation. They may be afraid of shorting stocks, and with regards to puts, some investors don't understand them, and others just don't like the premium, the volatility, and the expiration. For some investors, Short ETFs are an alternative.

An ETF or Exchange Traded Fund is structured to track various stock indices or the inverse of various stock indices. Most are traded on the American Stock Exchange. Depending on the ETF, it may even pay a yield. Here are several ETF's which will rise when stocks drop.

Short Dow30 ProShares (DOG) has a goal of the inverse of the daily performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average index. In other words, when the Dow drops, this ETF goes up. The fund has a yield of 2.53% .

Short Financials ProShares (SEF) goes up when the Dow Jones U.S. Financials index goes down.

Short MSCI EAFE ProShares (EFZ) goes up when the MSCI EAFE index goes down. MSCI EAFE is a stock market index of foreign stocks, Morgan Stanley Capital International, Europe, Australasia, and Far East.

Short MSCI Emerging Markets ProShares (EUM) goes up when the MSCI Emerging Markets index goes down.

Short MidCap400 ProShares (MYY) goes up when the S&P MidCap 400 index goes down. The fund has a yield of 3.55% .

Short Oil & Gas ProShares (DDG) goes up when the the Dow Jones U.S. Oil & Gas index goes down.

Short QQQ ProShares (PSQ) goes up when the the NASDAQ 100 index goes down. The fund has a yield of 3.13%.

Short Russell2000 ProShares (RWM) goes up when the Russell 2000 index goes down. The fund has a yield of 1.72% .

Short S&P SmallCap600 ProShares (SBB) goes up when the S&P SmallCap 600 index goes down. The fund has a yield of 2.68% .

Short S&P500 ProShares (SH) goes up when the the S&P 500 index goes down. The fund has a yield of 2.62% .

If you want to be really aggressive, you can consider investing in the UltraShort ETFs, which are structured to provide twice the return [or loss] from the movement in the index. You can also find an Excel database of short ETFs, which can be downloaded, sorted, and changed, at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.

Author does not own any of the above.

By Fred Fuld at Stockerblog.com

A Global Transport Exchange-Traded Fund Strategy

Mike Havrilla — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:49:38 +0000

Investors are currently limited to the iShares Dow Jones Transports (IYT) as a transport ETF option with net assets of $698 million and 20 component stocks (stats as of 8/8/08 from the iShares website). The top five holdings account for 43.2% of invested assets and include the following: Burlington Northern Santa Fe [...]

Is Investment in Coal Better than Gold?

The Energy Report — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:31:52 +0000

Source: TheStockAdvisors.com 06/03/2008 Profits from coal may be even bigger than from gold, which is viewed as coal’s more glamorous and higher profile rival,” notes Nick Vardy. In his Global Bull Market Alert he explains, “The Market Vectors Coal ETF (NYSE: KOL) enables you to buy a basket of 39 coal-related companies from 12 different countries.” [...]