Short the Market: 9 Ways to Profit From the Market's Fall
Teeka Tiwari, June 29, 2009
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#6 ProShares UltraShort S&P 500 (SDS)
ProShares UltraShort S&P 500 (SDS) is a leveraged ETF that seeks to deliver 200% of any move in the S&P 500. Because it is a short ETF, if the S&P goes down 1%, this will move up 2% and vice versa.
SDS also trades options, so you could buy call options on SDS if you believed that the S&P 500 was going lower. However, buyer beware: Trading leveraged ETFs is a big boy's/girl's game and is not for the faint of heart.
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