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Your Stock Market Nightmare Isn't Over:
7 Reasons Why the Market is Not Going up Anytime Soon
PLUS, 3 Trades to Make Money From the Market Now

Michael Shulman, January 14, 2009 Free Trading Guides

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Three Trades to Profit From the Current Mess Trade #1:
Short the Financials

Trade the obvious -– buy puts, preferably LEAPs, on Citigroup (it is melting as I write this), a pure play on a busted balance sheet or Capital One Financial (COF), the leader and therefore the biggest loser in the credit card market.

Or if you can handle very high risk and volatility, buy the double-inverse ETF (it goes up twice as fast the Dow Jones Financial Index goes down), the SKF.

Trade #2: Short the Homebuilders

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