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To: Steve Felix who wrote (5602)	8/30/2010 12:12:55 PM
From: chowder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34328

Re: TZA and TNA ... Kinda funny actually! One is bullish, the other is bearish. Both are down YTD. TZA down 17%, TNA down 14%. I know you are just trading, so you don't have those type of results, but I still think it's funny that opposite ends are down almost identically!

To: Steve Felix who wrote (5602)	8/31/2010 10:09:28 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34328

Hello Steve, You are trying to catch the swings and good luck to you on that--seriously. (Do you have software that reads the daily sentiment on buying/selling short term?) I'm just in a set it and forget mode. I do agree that one's entry point in these things is critical. One wants to be toward one extreme or the other when one enters the trade and then on the opposite side of the extreme. Another way to play (both sides) is to buy the index in one direction and a call or put on the index in the other so one can profit from any strong move. So far I've not done that, but thinking of doing that with TBT (holding it and buying a put.) V