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Sie werden wie Aktien (long) gehandelt, man geht damit aber Short auf die US-Indizes. Die Charts dieser Short-Index-Aktien laufen natürlich spiegelbildlich zum jeweiligen Index, den sie abbilden. Die Short-Aktie auf den Dow Jones hat das schöne Tickersymbol "DOG". Interessant ist, dass die Index-Short-Aktie auf den SP-500 - Ticker: SH - vor einem Ausbruch nach oben steht (Analyse unten). D. h. umgekehrt, der SP-500 selbst steht vor einem Einbruch. Einige dieser Index-Short-Aktien (sog. Ultra-Shorts) haben auch einen doppelten Hebel, darunter der unten nicht gelistete Nasdaq-Ultrashort-Indexfond mit Ticker QID. Unten der aktuelle Chart von QID (wäre er ein Long, würde Bullen ein "Einstiegssignal" erkennen - Bodenbildung, ansteigendes Volumen). ![]()
Market Confusion Means Time for Protection![]() By Mark Manning Street.com Contributor 1/29/2007 1:04 PM EST |
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When it comes to shorting stocks or indices to hedge your portfolio, many investors get concerned about the potential risks. With stocks this is a definite concern because of the lack of diversification and unlimited risk if the trade turned against you. The second problem is that you can't do any of this in IRAs because you need a margin account, and that is not allowed in these types of accounts.
Fortunately, there is a very good solution; ProShares has come out with inverse exchange-traded funds called ProShares Short and Ultra-Short Funds. Their short funds seek daily investment results, before fees and expenses, that correspond to the inverse (opposite) of the daily performance of a specific index. The Ultra fund seeks daily investment results, before fees and expenses, that correspond to twice (200%) of the daily performance of a specific index.
With these types of funds, investors have easy trading vehicles to protect their portfolios and make money in a downtrending market. Because ETFs trade like stocks, you can easily set buy and sell stops on your trade. ProShares offers a wide variety of these ETFs from the Dow Jones Industrials to the Small-Cap 600. You can review them on the ProShares Web site.
Today we will look at the charts of three of them, the Short Dow 30 (DOG - commentary - Cramer's Take), Short S&P 500 (SH - commentary - Cramer's Take) and the Short QQQ (PSQ - commentary - Cramer's Take). These three funds will correspond inversely with each index.
The Short Dow 30 has not closed above the 50-day moving average in over six months. However, it looks like it is about ready to do that. On Friday it broke through that level, but closed slightly below. A good buy point for this fund would be above resistance at $63.32. I would then make sure I had a protective sell stop under the $62.00 area if the Dow turns around and ramps higher again.

The Short S&P Fund is also very close to breaking out of its two-month consolidation, and it has successfully held above the 50-day moving average. A break above Friday's high at $63.12 may be a good entry point. Again, I would make sure I had a sell stop underneath support.

If the market does put in some type of top here, the Nasdaq Composite and the Qs look like they may lead the way down. They, too, successfully held above the 50-day moving average last week after the false breakout in the Nasdaq two weeks ago. You could actually use two buy points on this index. The first one would be above Friday's high of $ 63.02 and then again above $64.00. A good place for a protective sell stop would be under last Thursday's low of $61.35.

These are just a few ways you can outright short the market or protect your long-term holdings by hedging your portfolio from a correction. There are many other indices ProShares covers, including going 200% short these indexes. You will have to review them and see what is best for your individual circumstances.
Unten der aktuelle Chart von QID (wäre er ein Long, würde Bullen ein "Einstiegssignal" erkennen - Bodenbildung, ansteigendes Volumen).
Das Tragische Anti Lemming 28.01.07 18:07
an reinen Charttechnikern ist ja, dass sie gar nicht wissen, ob sie mit Äpfeln, Birnen oder Zitronen handeln, weil Fundamentalanalyse über ihren Horizont geht. Wer lediglich reflexhaft auf Bewegungen reagiert, die Andere verursachen, kann per Definition nicht besser abschneiden als die Masse. Und die verdient an der Börse bekanntlich kein Geld.
Im Umkehrschluss soll das wohl heissen der S&P geht weiter hoch nach Deiner Definition, das Charttechniker nur verlieren*ggg*
By Tony Tassell
Published: January 29 2007 19:01 | Last updated: January 29 2007 19:01
The streak may not yet be over. After a record-matching 13 quarters of earnings growth above 10 per cent, analysts had expected the US corporate sector’s fourth-quarter results at last to reveal a slowdown to single-digit increases.
But gravity continues to be defied. With results for 203 of the S&P 500 companies in, the expected growth for the first quarter had risen steadily to reach exactly 10 per cent by last night, according to consensus forecasts compiled by Thomson Financial.
Companies have also been adroit in what has become a quarterly earnings numbers game of guiding the market lower and then beating the forecasts. About 68 per cent of the reported fourth-quarter results have beaten forecasts – in line with recent quarters.
But there are reasons for the equity market to worry. Streaks don’t last forever and Thomson Financial says the forecast growth rate for 2007 has slipped from the 9.3 per cent expected on January 1 to 7.8 per cent. It is early days but the level of negative announcements on the outlook for first-quarter results has also been higher than in recent quarters.
Even the fourth-quarter results have relied heavily on Wall Street and the insurance industry. The insurance sector, benefiting from reduced hurricane activity, shot out the lights in the fourth quarter. The "multi-line" insurance sector is expected to deliver earnings growth of 349 per cent for the period. The investment banks, buoyed by trading profits and corporate deal activity, are expected to see a 53 per cent rise.
If the financials sector is excluded from the S&P 500 index, Thomson Financial says the expected earnings growth falls to just 1.7 per cent for the fourth quarter. That does not augur well, even if the overall level is dragged down by the energy sector. If energy is removed from the S&P 500 index, the expected earnings growth rate for the remaining nine sectors would be 14 per cent.
Analysts may once again prove pessimistic, as they have been in recent years. But even a modestly slowing earnings growth rate is hardly a positive backdrop for equities.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/fcbf01e2-afc8-11db-94ab-0000779e2340.html

aber einigen kritischen Anmerkungen sei die Erlaubnis erteilt :
Bedankt an dieser Stelle !
Inflation and War Finance
January 29, 2007
This is fundamentally dishonest: if we’re going to have a war, let’s face the costs-- both human and economic-- squarely. Congress has no business hiding the costs of war through accounting tricks.
As the war in Iraq surges forward, and the administration ponders military action against Iran, it’s important to ask ourselves an overlooked question: Can we really afford it? If every American taxpayer had to submit an extra five or ten thousand dollars to the IRS this April to pay for the war, I’m quite certain it would end very quickly. The problem is that government finances war by borrowing and printing money, rather than presenting a bill directly in the form of higher taxes. When the costs are obscured, the question of whether any war is worth it becomes distorted.
Congress and the Federal Reserve Bank have a cozy, unspoken arrangement that makes war easier to finance. Congress has an insatiable appetite for new spending, but raising taxes is politically unpopular. The Federal Reserve, however, is happy to accommodate deficit spending by creating new money through the Treasury Department. In exchange, Congress leaves the Fed alone to operate free of pesky oversight and free of political scrutiny. Monetary policy is utterly ignored in Washington, even though the Federal Reserve system is a creation of Congress.
The result of this arrangement is inflation. And inflation finances war.
Economist Lawrence Parks has explained how the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank in 1913 made possible our involvement in World War I. Without the ability to create new money, the federal government never could have afforded the enormous mobilization of men and material. Prior to that, American wars were financed through taxes and borrowing, both of which have limits. But government printing presses, at least in theory, have no limits. That’s why the money supply has nearly tripled just since 1990.
For perspective, consider our ongoing military commitment in Korea. In Korea alone, U.S. taxpayers have spent $1 trillion in today’s dollars over 55 years. What do we have to show for it? North Korea is a belligerent adversary armed with nuclear weapons, while South Korea is at best ambivalent about our role as their protector. The stalemate stretches on with no end in sight, as the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the men who fought in Korea give little thought to what was gained or lost. The Korean conflict should serve as a cautionary tale against the open-ended military occupation of any region.
The $500 billion we’ve officially spent in Iraq is an enormous sum, but the real total is much higher, hidden within the Defense Department and foreign aid budgets. As we build permanent military bases and a $1 billion embassy in Iraq, we need to keep asking whether it’s really worth it. Congress should at least fund the war in an honest way so the American people can judge for themselves.
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