Short Energy and Real Estate

[Dan Mezick]

Profunds has some new products to profit from declines in Energy and RealEstate. Learn more below.

They also have 1X and 2X inverse stock market funds. Careful now.

www.profunds.com
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Introducing Short Oil & Gas and Short Real Estate ProFunds
It's a fact of life—sectors move in and out of favor. To profit from sectors, investors have had to get in the right sector on the way up. No longer. Now ProFunds gives investors new opportunities to seek profits from sectors when they go down.

Short Oil & Gas ProFund is designed to increase when the U.S. energy sector declines and to decrease when the sector rises. Specifically, the fund seeks daily investment results, before fees and expenses, that correspond to the inverse (opposite) of the daily performance of the Dow Jones U.S. Oil & Gas Index.

Short Real Estate ProFund is designed to increase when the U.S. real estate sector declines and to decrease when the sector rises. Specifically, the fund seeks daily investment results, before fees and expenses, that correspond to the inverse (opposite) of the daily performance of the Dow Jones U.S. Real Estate Index.


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[midas]

Why don't you just short REIT's, housing developers and oil company stocks?

XLE

[Dan Mezick]

Large ETFs such as XLE work very well for shorting although some iShares are thinly traded. Profunds also offers 2X leverage on several indexes in both directions.

These work in some cases where the account type does not allow direct shorting or leverage ie qualified money.

[Sniper]

Both Profunds and Rydex offer excellent funds (some leveraged with futures) for Market Timers!

[tek]

I think you have to pay the dividends when you short...