New ProShares ETFs aim to provide 200% leverage to four key international markets.

 

If you think international markets are on the verge of a new leg up in the ongoing broad global rally, a few more tools via exchange-traded funds are now available to provide more leverage.

ProShares launched on Wednesday four ETFs taking 200% positions in four popular foreign indexes. Two are broad in geographic reach and each adds to existing ProShares ETFs that take inverse positions with the same benchmarks.

The new ProShares are the:

ProShares Ultra MSCI EAFE (NYSE Arca: EFO) ProShares Ultra MSCI Emerging Markets (NYSE Arca: EET) ProShares Ultra FTSE/Xinhua China 25 (NYSE Arca: XPP) ProShares Ultra MSCI Japan (NYSE Arca: EZJ)

These ETFs each seek to capture 2 times the daily performance of their underlying benchmarks. That's something to consider since rival Direxion recently moved to introduce a series of leveraged ETFs that track monthly index performances. (See related article here.)

In theory, being able to track a longer return period should

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What’s The Best Way Up?

by Investment U Research Team

With the gyrations of the market over the past couple of weeks, many investors are starting to look at options for getting back in. Wall Street has given investors and speculators alike some tantalizing reasons to “jump in the swim.”

While the markets have moved up almost 10%, a number of stocks have done considerably better. In the past, small caps have made up the biggest gainers in any new bull market – there’s no reason this shouldn’t continue.

Small caps are the “red balloons” of the investment world. Their size allows them to take advantage of “wind currents” faster than their larger brethren. Continuing our analogy, mid caps are represented by weather balloons and large caps by hot air balloons.  

Each has its advantages, and all have historically moved at a consistent rate during turnarounds

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Investors 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 Large Cap Bull 3x Shares ETF (NYSE:BGU) will ensure huge profits for investors willing to “think big”.

This from Investor’s Daily Edge:

What 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.

What does this mean? It means that if you have one of these ETFs and the index goes up one percent in a day, this ETF will go up three percent. If the index

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