27: How Inverse And Leveraged ETFs Actually Work

The Option Alpha Podcast

Kirk Du Plessis

Education, Options Trading, Trading, Investing, Stock Market, Business, Finance

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🗓️ 16 April 2015

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In the past couple years inverse and leveraged ETFs have been some of the most highly traded securities because of their seemingly "cool" concept for speculation. I mean where else can you get such high exposure to financials or gold than with a 3X bull/bear ETF? In this session of The Option Alpha Podcast I'll going to dig deep into how these products are both structured and priced so that you have a complete and full understanding of the "drag" they carry before investing. No this is not to...

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Option Alpha Podcast from Option Alpha.com where we show you how to
0:06.2	make smarter trades learn how the stock market really works and generate consistent
0:10.8	monthly income. Now your host and head trader at
0:15.0	option alpha.com Kirk depluses.
0:18.0	Hey everyone this is Kirk here again at option alpha
0:21.0	com working every single week to make this the most popular investing
0:24.8	podcast offered in iTunes and online because it's based on one thing and one thing only, and that's
0:30.4	helping you make smarter trades.
0:32.2	So thanks so much for tuning in today.
0:33.6	We've got a really cool show for you guys today talking about leverage and inverse
0:38.3	EDFs.
0:39.3	Things that most people see all the time, but they really don't understand kind of the pricing behind it.
0:44.0	Now before we get into that I just have a couple quick comments.
0:47.0	Now the one thing I wanted to share real quick today because I've been getting
0:50.1	kind of these emails that are around the same type of topic and I wanted to just quickly share my thoughts on this before we get into the episode.
0:56.4	And that's this thought about consistency and I constantly get
1:00.3	emails from traders both new and experience finding out or asking how to be
1:05.4	more consistent and to some degree it really frustrates me because this is something
1:09.4	that I feel like I preach a lot maybe I don't enough of, that's why I'm talking about it now,
1:13.5	but it frustrates me a little bit because I feel like most people who get into this business,
1:18.2	they want to see immediate action or immediate results, right?
1:21.4	Like a trade that goes correct right away the first time and then
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