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Strategies & Market Trends : Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis
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To: Stoctrash who wrote (91273)12/7/2008 4:09:36 AM
From: mishedlo  Read Replies (4) of 116555
 
The simple fact of the matter is shorting has no "such slippage".
Such slippage means no losses when a stock retraces.
That is a fact.
If you short something and hold on to it and it gyrates all around and ends up a year later where you shorted it, there is ZERO slippage. You are out exactly break even BY DEFINITION.

On an inverse ETF you will be substantially underwater RELATIVE to the same trade done via shorting.

I am ignoring the once cent per share (or whatever) trading fees there are trading ANYTHING.

Mish
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