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Prediction: Direxion Triple ETFs Will Revolutionize Day Trading

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:31:00 GMT

I promised myself that once the new Direxion 3x and -3x ETFs started trading at least a million shares a day that I would take them out for a test drive. Well, I didn’t have to wait very long. Launched just last week, two of the eight new ETFs hit the million share mark yesterday and a third missed only by a rounding error. To recap for those who do not follow this space, Direxion is the first company to offer ETFs that have a targeted return that is leveraged to three times and minus three times that of the underlying indices. So far the biggest successes have been the large cap 3x bull (BGU) and large cap -3x bear (BGZ) ETFs, which are based on the [More...]

Small Cap keeps outperforming Large Caps

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:56:00 GMT

The Russell 2000, small cap index, has outperformed large indexes on YTD basis and on a year-over-year basis.[More...]

Who Says Indexes are Not Performance Chasers?

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:52:41 GMT

This really is beginning to remind me of the late 90s and technology when every index was in a hurry to stuff itself with tech stocks. Fresh off two of our holdings (natural gas and coal) being added to the S&P 500 (Jun 13: Cabot Oil & Gas (COG) and Masse[More...]