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One more advantage of SPY is that you can sell short or buy Long ANY TIME OF
THE DAY. It is not an End od Day pricing like most all mutual funds.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jonathan Sibley <jsibley@xxxxxxxx>
To: RealTraders Discussion Group <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 1999 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: Short Mutual Funds?
There are also a number of funds that are designed to go up when markets or
segments go down. Rydex, for example has some of these and there are others
that someone else will probably mention.
I believe being long these funds should serve the same purpose as being
short typical mutual funds.
Jonathan Sibley
At 11:19 PM 1/12/99 -0600, THE DOCTOR wrote:
>The AMEX trades sector and index spyders which would allow you to do the
>same as shorting funds, except the spyders are a lot more flexible as they
>can traded intraday.
>
>There are also options on the Lipper Index(es) of funds, but they rarely
>trade.
>
>BL wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know if there exist any mutual funds that can be shorted? I
>> seem to recall reading this somewhere but forgot the fund name. Of
>> particular interest would be sector and index funds. Thanks, Brian
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