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If you need serious investment advice, contact a financial adviser! Strategies for day trading leveraged ETFs? They have long and short versions so you can make money on the downside without short selling. Additionally, there is lower chance of loss since indexes don't often drop substantially.

My strategy so far has been restricted to following the news, looking at futures and the overall sentiment of the market prior to open, watching what happens at open and see if it looks like it will continue going in a certain direction. Iv been using elementary technical analysis to find stair steps, looking at MACD, volume and RSI. Does anyone else trade leveraged ETFs and care to share any strategies or specific tactics they like to use?

Yeah I'm only looking at them for intra-day trading. Obviously that is peanuts, and I'd like to be able to develop a better strategy than the lame one I am employing now. Understand as fast as you can. They are like penny stocks. But, they actually move. Buy, AAPL for 3. You can't make that kind of profit with stocks "unless you have a lot of money".

Also, don't forget that the amount the option moves all depends on the deltas. Trust me, I know what I'm doing. Been trading for 4 years now. I know how to manage risk, and I know when to add on the risk. I scale into winning trades. I catch breakouts, I'm in the trade less than 2 minutes. None of that greek mumbo jumbo has any influence on my daytrading. I trade riding the big players.

If there's no big players playing, I'm not playing. You will learn how to spot a big player and an aggressive big player at that. NFLX, PCLN, and AAPL all had the big algo, HFT's and dark pools playing in them, they were moving the stock all over the place. That's when you want to play. If you want leverage learn options trading. There's an inherent time decay in leveraged ETFs anyway, but more than that, they don't directly correlate with the underlying stocks or indexes they supposedly track.

I tried how much money can i make donating my sperm different things: I would be profitable for a blip, but eventually it all sloshed back day trading with leveraged etfs the house. Big money can front run any news that comes out, and even if all people did get the same info at the same time, their headline scanners can compute then trade on a headline in around 4 seconds and these are super computers running algorithms specifically calibrated to separate you from your money.

If you have worked at a firm before and know the code they use to trade, then go for it.

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Otherwise, you are going to get run over. I hate to hear of new traders losing their shirts to the big guys.

I tried leveraged ETFs because I was young and dumb and didn't know it's a rigged game I just saw the dollar signs even though I do more than alright in just stocksand I hope you don't have to learn this lesson the hard way. I am also looking into Options as they seem very attractive. However, it seems the probability of winning all depend on whether the underlying goes up or down, which is the same either way. That's part of the allure, but also not correct.

Neither bull nor bear ETFs moves in proportion to what you would imagine.

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What is a good entrance strategy? This is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment. These leveraged ETFs are terrible long term holds, so do not get caught on the wrong side! Gotta understand them first. Where I can I go to learn about the options game and meta game? Stick with value investing. What strategies did you use?

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