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Thanks for the suggestions about shorting Mutual Funds. In a nutshell, you
really can't. Would they ever be so toast if you could though!
-----Original Message-----
From: jack zaner [mailto:jzaner@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 11:08 AM
To: cwest@xxxxxxxxxxxx; omega-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx; omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: shorting mutual funds
Colin: I believe that you can short ETFs since they are essentially index
stocks traded on an exchange. Hope this helps.
Regards, Jack.
----- Original Message -----
From: "cwest" <cwest@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx>; <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 10:00 AM
Subject: RE: shorting mutual funds
> Thanks for the responses. The choices mentioned can't do the job I had in
> mind, which I'll briefly explain. Given that one accepts a stance that a
> given Fund will underperform-forgetting about how one arrived at that
> opinion-looking at their historical charts or rather looking at ratio'd
> spreads of their price and relevant indices, positioning for an expected
> divergence ought to have been profitable. So the challenge is to devise a
> way to go short particular Fund(s).
>
> I've never bought a Fund-they've never seemed attractive to me-so I don't
> know too much about them. Is there a way to obtain a list of their
holdings
> each night or frequently?
>
> Colin West
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walter Hooker [mailto:whooker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 8:49 AM
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: shorting mutual funds
>
> Colin,
>
> BEARX is a fund that you buy that shorts the market.
>
> W Hooker
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "cwest" <cwest@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "'Omega-List'" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 7:32 PM
> > Subject: shorting mutual funds
> >
> >
> > >
> > > How, if at all, could one short (listed) mutual funds, either
> > > direcctly
> or
> > > virtually.
> > >
> > > tia
> > > Colin West
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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