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Strategies & Market Trends : LastShadow's Position Trading -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LastShadow who wrote (7590)	2/1/1999 8:58:00 AM
From: LastShadow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 43080

ProFunds and Rydex Ok you lucky traders, I have posted to the website the comparison plots of the ProFunds UltraBull and Ultra Bear funds, and the Rydex Nova and Ursa funds I wasn't able to use the trading strategy to switch between the funds, but I did overlay the bull andbear fund plots and below those charts provided an equity line that assumed when you exited either you went flat. This means that if the chart was flat for one, you were long the other. In summary, I am not impressed with the Rydex funds, and will probably concentrate further work on just the ProFunds. Basicall one was in a bear fund between Sept and Mid-ctober, andthen switched to the bull fund through today (although I am currently flat and not long). Doing so would have generateda 35% return for the Rydex fund switching, and a 95% return for the Profunds. Neither return would have made the top 10 list Mutual fund. However, andthis is the bigpart, there are few Bear funds such as Profunds Ultra Bear that produced more than 40% during the month and half decline last fall (Sept-Oct), and that fund, couple with a better performing Bull fund could provide excellent returns. I do need to tweak the trading strategy to get a better exit signal for the bear funds, andwill work that this week. The charts are inverted for printing, so forgive the colors. home.earthlink.net hit the mutual button and its the third fourth links on that page. lastshadow