Posts Tagged ‘etf’

A Leveraged ETF. Is It A Good Investment?

September 25th, 2009 | Filed under: Financial Markets, ,

What is a leveraged ETF?

Quite simply, leveraged ETFs are securities that attempt to replicate multiples of the performance of an underlying financial index. So if the index X goes up 10%, then a possible leveraged ETF of index X could see 30% returns.

Inverse ETFs are designed to

How To Make 55% Gains When Sector Is Down 66%

July 22nd, 2009 | Filed under: Financial Markets, , ,

One of the most popular ETF’s is the United States Natural Gas Fund (UNG). Basically it is an ETF that tracks the natural gas market. Obviously, it is a great way to play the sector without having to pick individual companies to trade.

Over the last year, UNG has not