Short-Selling, Puts & Inverse ETFs 02 (Feb 12 - Dec 25)

[winston]

Get Short Treasuries Now and Get Paid Long Term

The simplest way to bet on higher rates is through the Proshares Short 20+ Year Treasury ETF (NYSE Arca: TBF).

It’s a $600 million fund designed to rise at the same rate as long-term Treasuries drop.

TBF is an inverse fund, so if long-term Treasuries rise, TBF will fall as the same rate.

Right now, it’s been acting well, as it looks to have bottomed in July and recently surged past the resistance levels of the last two months.

My suggestion is to add TBF to your portfolio now and use a hard stop at $20.30, the July low. That’s just 5% below current levels. I think on the upside TBF could regain $25 within 12 months, maybe sooner. So you’d be risking 5% for a potential 20% gain.

Right now the signs point to lower bond prices and higher rates.

Remember all trends, even secular trends, come to an end and then reverse.

If you catch them early, they can be very profitable.

Source: Money Morning

[winston]

Volatility and Inverse ETFs: Understand The Risks

by Tim Hooker

Most professionals that trade inverse ETFs only hold them for a day or two because the product is designed simply for day trading.

Source: Investopedia

http://www.investopedia.com/advisor-net ... yptr=yahoo

[winston]

Cramer's 6 vital rules to short selling

by Abigail Stevenson

Source: CNBC.com

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/03/cramers- ... yptr=yahoo

[winston]

What you need to know before you short this market

Source: Daily Crux

http://thecrux.com/top-trader-what-you- ... is-market/

[winston]

Jim Chanos uses this 7-point checklist for companies he's going to short

by Julia La Roche

Prominent short-seller Jim Chanos, the founder of Kynikos Associates, says there are seven things he looks at when making a short bet.

His checklist comes from a book called “The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse” by Marianne Jennings.

The seven signs include: “pressure to maintain those numbers”; “fear and silence”; “young’uns and bigger-than-life CEO”; “weak board”; “conflicts”; “innovation like no other”; and “goodness in some areas atones for evil in others.”

Source: Yahoo Finance

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/jim-chano ... 53257.html

[winston]

What to short as the coming crisis unfolds

Source: Daily Crux

http://thecrux.com/porter-stansberry-wh ... s-unfolds/

[winston]

10 Most Shorted NYSE Stocks

By Trey Thoelcke

Source: 247 Wall Street

http://247wallst.com/investing/2016/11/ ... yptr=yahoo

[winston]

10 Most Shorted Nasdaq Stocks

By Trey Thoelcke

Source: 247 Wall St

http://247wallst.com/investing/2016/11/ ... yptr=yahoo

[behappyalways]

Italian bourse CEO says there are 'colossal' short positions on Italy
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/29/italian- ... italy.html

[winston]

The number of investors betting against the market is on a steep decline

by Evelyn Cheng

Among S&P 500 stocks on average, short interest declined from more than 4.5 percent of shares available for trading earlier this year to 4 percent as of the end of November, according to Monday report from Bespoke Investment Group.

Source: CNBC

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/13/stock-ma ... yptr=yahoo