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There is no way to short a fund. They publish data on holdings so
long after the fact that it is useless. It is just a bummer. I'm
guessing that you think a fund has lost it's ability to trade well not
that you think all funds will go down. Unfortunately I know of no
way to make a profit on that. Someone explained to me about 20 years
or so ago that I didn't want to short a fund anyway. Why, well
because they don't go down as well as other vehicles. So I gave up
the idea.
Jimmy
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
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> > How, if at all, could one short (listed) mutual funds, either
> > direcctly
or
> > virtually.
> >
> > tia
> > Colin West
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