Financials: Shorting, Inverse ETFs, and Leveraged ETFs – Should They Be a Part of Your Strategy?

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🗓️ 13 August 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Is betting against stocks or the entire market ever a smart idea?

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0:19.4	Innovation. Welcome to Industry Focus, the show that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.
0:28.0	It's Monday, August 13th, and on today's financial show, we're diving into the Motley Full Mailbag to answer
0:35.7	listener questions about the fascinating topic of shorting.
0:39.8	Specifically, we'll discuss some different shorting strategies, the risk involved, and ultimately, in the
0:45.8	event of a market downturn, should these alternative strategies have a place in your long-term portfolio. We'll get into all of that but first I'm your
0:55.3	host Shannon Jones and I'm joined in the studio via Skype with Financial's
1:00.1	Guru and newly minted certified Financial planner Matt Frankel Matt Congrats you
1:06.8	survived the CFP examination and live to tell the tale I did and I never want to do it again.
1:14.0	To all you listeners out there thinking about doing it, you heard it straight from Matt's lips.
1:19.0	It's tough, but obviously not too impossible to achieve.
1:25.2	But Matt, tell us, I guess, what went involved with that?
1:29.4	Well, to be a CFP, you need a few different things.
1:32.1	You have to have an educational background, so I have to do a graduate certificate in financial planning. I did mine through Florida State University. You also need at least three years of full-time experience in the financial industry, which I work
1:46.2	with the Motley Fool gave me that.
1:48.9	And then finally you need to pass an exam.
1:51.4	And then after that you kind of have to take an oath type thing.
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