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Re: stocks:our S&P



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>How do you go short using SPY's?  Do you have to sell them short on an
>uptick from a margin account?  Is there an instrument on the exchange
>like the RYDEX Ursa mutual fund  that you can go long an instrument that
>does the opposite of the market--that is without having to sell short?
>I'm looking for something that's not a deteriorating or highly leveraged
>vehicle (e.g. options and futures) to trade both sides of the market.

Vehicles are only "highly leveraged" if you trade them that way. There's no
law saying you have to trade using exchange/broker minimum margins. For
example, with an account of $40,000, trading one E-mini S&P would be
roughly equivalent to selling SPYs short.

Just a thought...

-Richard Bloch