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To: Shack who wrote (123879)	9/11/2005 1:18:04 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 209892

I always had an interest in market neutral strategies. Several months ago I was going to take a separate account and on about 90% buy oils and energies, and use the balance to be short ES futures. I wish I'd done it, since SP didn't move anywhere, while energies took off big. I did do it in a sense, since I did buy buy energies, and kept trading the index. So, on the active (index trading) side I ended up threading water, but it gave me confidence to withstand down swings on the energy side, which did very well. For the pension plan, I would use Rydex for the bearish side of the equation - and at this point I wouldn't be under pressure to cover. My point is that maybe that's what people are doing. A trillion+ in hedge funds may be skewing many pictures.