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To: carranza2 who wrote (95692)7/16/2008 12:08:11 PM
From: Robin Plunder  Respond to of 110194
 
"In addition, the advent of ETFs give retail investors like us the ability to participate in broad trends without being married to specific stocks. Plus, if you are convinced enough of the nature of the trend, you can go ultra short or long as the case may be and profit even more."

yes, and I think for IRA accounts, they allow the opportunity to short or to buy baskets of govt bonds from countries outside the US (ie, hedge against dollar).

Robin


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