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Commodity ETFs

1000 Best and Worst ETFs of 2011

October 19, 2011

With 2011 coming to a close, it’s a good time to take inventory of which ETFs fared the best which may lend some insight into trends and sectors to keep an eye on going into the close of the year. With tax-loss harvesting, asset rebalancing, and the dreaded annual returns fund managers must report following [...]

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5 Reasons to AVOID the Gold ETF GLD

September 26, 2011

The gold bugs have certainly been gloating of late (well, excluding the prior 2 trading sessions) seeing as how bullion prices, miners and precious metals ETFs have been holding up well while most other asset classes spiral downward in a volatility vortex. In the short term, sure, gold has performed well and may well continue [...]

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Physical Silver Trust Premium Collapses – Pairs Trade Returns 10%

May 5, 2011

With the various precious metals ETFs out there and the volatility we’re seeing in the markets now, there are opportunities to exploit market inefficiencies that appear and disappear rather quickly (see more on arbitrage investments). But investors that are agile can benefit as these scenarios repeat themselves somewhat frequently. In the past, I benefited from [...]

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How I Hedged Summer Gas Prices with ETFs

April 19, 2011

With oil prices hovering over $100 per barrel again and the summer driving season approaching, Americans are rightfully fretting over what they’re going to be paying at the pump as tensions continue to flare in the Middle East and the nuclear accident continues to unfold in Japan. Gas prices tend to rise annually during the [...]

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4 Ways to Profit From Silver’s Explosive Growth

April 10, 2011

With silver at decades-long highs, an obvious question one has to consider is whether this is a bubble ready to burst, a continuation of a secular bull trend, or simply that this is another efficient market example where prices do reflect the appropriate value based on all market information known at this time. Depending on [...]

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Incredible Silver Pairs Trade – If You Can Find the Shares to Short

March 23, 2011

There’s a really nice silver pairs trade being set up right now for investors that are agile enough, already set up for margin/short trading and understand the premise behind this pairs trade. Using the exact same concept I outlined previously for a gold pairs trade which worked out beautifully, there’s a nice market inefficiency (see [...]

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30 Top ETFs of 2010

December 29, 2010

The top ETFs of 2010 hail from several different asset classes and strategies. Since leveraged ETFs tend to benefit tremendously from sustained trends but make for poor long-term investments in volatile markets, I’ve included both conventional non-leveraged ETFs as well as leveraged ETFs. As of December 30, 2010, here are the best performing ETFs of [...]

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4 ETFs to Benefit from the World’s Nuclear Power Needs

November 17, 2010

Since typical retail investors can’t take custody in Uranium and other fissile materials (nor would they want to), the next best thing to play on the future need for nuclear power would be in the companies involved in nuclear power generation and nuclear material mining companies. (URA) – Last week saw the launch of the [...]

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7 ETFs That May Benefit from Election and QE2 Results

November 3, 2010

Now that the markets have largely digested the election results and the Fed’s FOMC meeting announcement, it was evident both outcomes were somewhat baked in as investors engaged in the typical front-running and anyone looking for a Black Swan Investment or binary trade on Wednesday was disappointed. The Fed unveiled plans to purchase of an [...]

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