Trend: Leveraged and inverse ETFs do not perform as expected due to tax distributions and tracking error.  Jim Cramer on CNBC has been ranting about the problems effects of the double short financial ETF SKF. Simon Maierhofer at ETF Guide describes the illogical returns of leveraged and inverse ETF...

Lynne (visit her at Pawprints) kindly asked me to disclose some screw-ups from my sketchbooks, and though it is not easy to reveal the ones i don't like, i must say, it is an exercise in humility!! These didn't make the blog because they were either flawed, boring, or repetitive. From top to...

The market gave the big kick to the nutz to everyone long today. Rather then lay on the ground holding yourself it's time to get up look around and figure out what to do. Granted, I am 80% cash and many people would be very happy with that - I'm not however. I don't like to lose on 20% of my investm...

DTO is only a few days old and I am still doing some due dilly but I believe this is the only "pure play" inverse for the actual oil commodity. Most of my readers are very frustrated if they have a short bias on oil because either USO is to hard to borrow or DUG is a very esoteric etf that does not ...

My money is on the long side for the greenback. Enough is enough already. I've been posting for a while that this beating just has to end. The fact that gold has even cooled off with the weak dollar tells me the smart money is starting to anticipate a coming rally in the dollar which should drop oil...