Safety of ETF's

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Anyone has solid info on the safety of some of these products such as Barclays iShares ? In one prospectus I understand in case of liquidation of the fund company, all funds can be affected .
 
I really wonder about Barclays and other European outfits such as SG. I am sure governments would step in in case of problems there. But the other day I was listening to Brinker and he reminded listeners that there is no fund protection with mutual funds, I never really worried about this and mistakenly assumed SIPC would play a role but SIPC protects against the brokerage failure, not the failure of a fund company.

I also wonder about the short Proshares , they use swaps to short, but what about the counterparty risk there ? There are already someproblems with the short sale ban as I understand as they stopped issuing new shares for their short financial fund. Just wondering about the risk of having such fund mechanism blow up on you , not that yopu would lose all your money but your actual return would be very different than expected.
 
Quote from Adobian:

I am looking for a 5x bagger. Anyone know a good ETF for this? I don't mind holding 6 months.
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Buy the uyg if it gets to 6 dollars and martingale it all the way down. At some point you will get a 5 bagger.
 
I've actually been thinking the same thing. There were a couple I was interested in for long-term, but then rethought it until we're clear on which firms will survive this mess.
 
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