Is a Bear 3X Commodity ETF Worse than 3X Bull Commodity ETF?

Sig · Apr 26, 2017

GloriaBrown said:
Dude there are historical records and there is yes and no answer for the question.

The Dunning Kruger effect is strong with this one!

Just wish I could be the counter party for folks like this. Amazing.

GloriaBrown · Apr 26, 2017

Sig said:
The Dunning Kruger effect is strong with this one!

Just wish I could be the counter party for folks like this. Amazing.

It is ok that you dont know the answer

Sig · Apr 26, 2017

GloriaBrown said:
It is ok that you dont know the answer

And it's ok that you lack the intellectual capacity to realize you lack the intellectual capacity to comprehend the answer.

GloriaBrown · Apr 27, 2017

Sig said:
And it's ok that you lack the intellectual capacity to realize you lack the intellectual capacity to comprehend the answer.

Did you take your medicine today?

Max E. · May 11, 2017

Q: Is a Bear 3X Commodity ETF Worse than 3X Bull Commodity ETF?

A: It doesnt matter you should only ever be shorting both, leveraged ETFS get destroyed over time. Look at a 5 year chat of NUGT, or UVXY, that should tell you all you need to know about which side you want to be on.

Cuddles · May 14, 2017

3x naked bear

Benihana · May 14, 2017

Max E. Pad said:
Q: Is a Bear 3X Commodity ETF Worse than 3X Bull Commodity ETF?

A: It doesnt matter you should only ever be shorting both, leveraged ETFS get destroyed over time. Look at a 5 year chat of NUGT, or UVXY, that should tell you all you need to know about which side you want to be on.

Is that really true? Everyone knows that these leveraged etfs go to zero over time, so don't you think that finding shares to short would either be very hard to find or very expensive? Just blindly shorting these etfs is no edge.

GloriaBrown · May 15, 2017

Benihana said:
Is that really true? Everyone knows that these leveraged etfs go to zero over time, so don't you think that finding shares to short would either be very hard to find or very expensive? Just blindly shorting these etfs is no edge.

Actually even blindly short has some edge

zdreg · May 27, 2017

Max E. said:
Q: Is a Bear 3X Commodity ETF Worse than 3X Bull Commodity ETF?

A: It doesnt matter you should only ever be shorting both, leveraged ETFS get destroyed over time. Look at a 5 year chat of NUGT, or UVXY, that should tell you all you need to know about which side you want to be on.

why are you screaming or is your keyboard broken?

zdreg · May 27, 2017

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