ild, The dollar is strong because our GDP, as reported, or, I should say, faked, is still stronger than most other country's.
How to play a weaker dollar with leverage? Many ways, depending upon your risk level. In the futures area, short bonds or long T-Bond puts are a good, fairly conservative choice. Long calls on Swiss Francs, Euros or Yen would also work. Long gold futures might work. It has most of the time in past dollar debacles, but it has really not played a couple of times, too.
In the stock market, buying something like The Europe Fund or Swiss Helvetia or Germany in the closed end fund arena, with margin if you want leverage, would probably work.
In the bond markets, long German, Swiss or Euro denominated bonds are a low risk way to play, but they can be leveraged with margin out the wazoo. |
