This year, I will pick my investments for 2018. I have positions in most of these going into the year.
These are all short positions on leveraged ETFs. Shorts make money when they decline in price, and leveraged ETFs are built to fail due to daily rebalancing. I have chosen these because they are available to short at various times, or you can buy put options on them (put options do have negatives, they are timed, and decline in value as they as approach expiration).
The list
| FAZ | financials |
| TZA | Small Cap |
| SPXS | SP 500 |
| SOXS | Semiconductors |
| SQQQ | Large Cap Tech |
| YANG | China |
| JDST | Junior miners Bear |
| JNUG | Junior Miners Bull |
| VXX | Volatility short term |
| VXZ | Volatility mid term |
The first 8 are 3x leverage. The first 6 are based on equities and are all bear funds. The two Miners are more volatile, and though on a daily basis they offset, over time they may both decline.
The last two are technically ETNs, very dangerous but potentially very lucrative.
I'll track these for the year.
