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Stock Mania ! - Mutual Funds that can short.
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29 Mike, Thanks for the analysis. Perhaps your comments will be heard by some asTulipMania-5/1/1998
28 WS. Part Two. 3. Relative performance ruins most of the potentially good manaKnighty Tin-4/30/1998
27 WS, As an old fund manager who was one of the first to use options and futures Knighty Tin-4/30/1998
26 it might be a very good place to be from june thru october....i'm thinking peter n matzke-4/30/1998
25 Peter, I called Profunds today and they said they are trying to get 200% inverkahunabear-4/30/1998
24 To all, BMNIX is the symbol for the institutional shares of Barr Rosenberg. BRkahunabear-4/30/1998
23 <i>With stocks on average yielding less than 1.5%, the fund expenses wouldumbmoney-4/30/1998
22 I haven't checked out that one. the cohen and steers CEFs RFI and RIF are Bonnie Bear-4/30/1998
21 Thanks for the cautions. I have never shorted a CEF, but like to go long on cerkahunabear-4/30/1998
20 oh, one other caution on shorting CEFs: CEFs are wonderful investment devices.Bonnie Bear-4/30/1998
19 re brokers: all of them have informative home pages. re shorting CEFs: when thBonnie Bear-4/30/1998
18 Bonnie, Great input ! Thanks. I'll try and add something to my website. Wkahunabear-4/30/1998
17 whipsaw: there's yet another class of stocks that short. FBG is a recent IBonnie Bear-4/30/1998
16 To All, Wow! Did I pick a great day to start this thread or what ? <g> kahunabear-4/30/1998
15 drsvelte, Yeah, I have owned it in the past and it has been pretty tough. Its kahunabear-4/30/1998
14 tippet, Montgomery Global Long/Short fund (MNGLX) is interesting. They are defkahunabear-4/30/1998
13 Tommaso, You could be right. I certainly don't know. I know I have tried tkahunabear-4/30/1998
12 The concept seems to be in keeping with your moniker. <g> No, seriously,yard_man-4/30/1998
11 "I would be really very interested in hearing which ones you think have thdrsvelte-4/30/1998
10 tippet, In my last post I mentioned a new breed of market neutral fund that iskahunabear-4/30/1998
9 I have not studied them but the idea of a "market-neutral" fund soundTommaso-4/30/1998
8 Peter, Yep, the reverse index funds haven't done well. Some of the other fkahunabear-4/30/1998
7 Will try to visit your website when I can. I think I need a good alternative tyard_man-4/30/1998
6 whipsaw, good luck to this thread. I hope that "believers" will make Richard Mazzarella-4/30/1998
5 i couldn't pull up your chart but i know they look ugly. But past performanpeter n matzke-4/30/1998
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