Guys serious queston. A few months ago I bought around 10k of

>>1073954
TL;DR

Is SH a stock that you are only supposed to hold for a very short period of time or can i hold this for a year without getting murdered in leveraged fees? i thought SH wasn't heavily leveraged

>>1073954
Did you read the prospectus? In either case?
>is there a cliffs notes pdf
no

>>1073971
I am not very intelligent so it is hard to read the prospectus because they use advanced language.

I have read this-->
http://www.proshares.com/funds/sh.html

Ticker SH
Intraday Ticker SH.IV
CUSIP 74347R503
Inception Date 6/19/06
Expense Ratio * 0.90%
NAV Calculation Time 4:00 p.m. ET
Distributions Quarterly

I understand the expensive ration to be a .009 a year so at 13,000 USD i would be paying around 130 a year in fees?

>>1073972

I'm needing to know this information as well.

How do the fees work on leaveraged etfs?

>>1073980
yeah all i know is that I owned BOIL 3x leveraged ETF and i lost a shit ton of money even though the stock went up. I heard SH wasn't as leveraged so you could hold it a long time

>>1073954

>long oil
>wiped out on American Apparel
>even down on your short ETF
>overall 20% loss on your investments

Kek overload. You've made some fucking awful choices. I would seriously recommend that you stop trying to play the markets and just put your money in a nice, safe savings account.

>>1073994
lol i've lost a lot more on zillow and gold

>>1073954

>fees associated with holding the stock that I don't fully understand

Look. This is a huge red flag. It's clear you don't have knowledge that these instruments require.

Stick to the stocks until get it.

>>1074026
clearly you don't have the knowledge either if you can't talk 5 seconds to explain if it is a levered position or not.

Fucking top kek

These are exactly why these complex financial instruments are created in the first place; to fleece rubes like you out of all your money. Hell, you can't even read the prospectus without throwing up your hands and coming to 4chan.

It's like poetry.

>>1074040
I've read it but i don't understand it bc it uses needlessly complex language designed to confused the public

http://www.proshares.com/media/fact_sheet/ProSharesFactSheetSH.pdf

http://www.proshares.com/media/prospectus/statutory_prospectus.pdf

from what understand it charges 1 percent APY

>>1074059
>>1074040
ProShares Short S&P500 (the “Fund”) seeks investment results
for a single day only, not for longer periods. A “single day” is
measured from the time the Fund calculates its net asset value
(“NAV”) to the time of the Fund’s next NAV calculation. The return
of the Fund for periods longer than a single day will be the result
of each day’s returns compounded over the period, which will very
likely differ from the inverse (-1x) of the return of the S&P 500®
(the “Index”) for that period. For periods longer than a single day,
the Fund will lose money when the level of the Index is flat, and
it is possible that the Fund will lose money even if the level of
the Index falls. L

>>1074064
so does this mean you have to buy it and resell it everyday?!

>>1074059
>>1074064
>>1074069
"Non-leveraged inverse ETF’s that can be considered when the time comes, include the ProShares Short Dow, symbol DOG; the ProShares Short S&P 500, symbol SH; the ProShares Short Russell 2000, symbol RWM."

If SH is non leveraged why does it still bleed money everyday

>>1074073
"their use of derivatives can create tracking error even without leverage" can anyone explain how "derivative use" is causing my SH position to bleed just as much as a 3x inverse highly leveraged BOIL ETF?

>>1074069
would also like to know this
>>1073954
in the same boat as you OP, tho havent gotten any fees yet

>>1074092
yeah it's just fucked up. I make the right call. The SP500 drops 9% and i still lose money. I think i'm just going to stick to stocks. These ETFs are fucked and are designed to steal goyums money.

>>1074073
>why does it still bleed money everyday
Because the relationship between the ETF and the underlying are reset every day, making this valuable as a daily hedge, terrible as a long term hold.

>>1073954
>that portfolio

I hope you're trolling otherwise good god man..

Close all of your positions now. Even at the losses you have. You have no idea what you're doing.

That's the best advice you're going to get here.

>>1074018

Are you the living embodiment of 'buy high, sell low'? Just how much have you lost since you started?

>>1074155
I lost 5k on gold and 7k on zillow.com. The best part is that this is all of my savings and that i havent been able to find work for 4 years.

>>1074103
okay so we have established that SH isn't a good long term hold to short the market. I feel like the market is going to crash in the next 6 months. Is there any position i can hold that won't bleed itself to death everyday that can make me money when the market crashes?

>>1074223
I'm guessing this isn't a margin account?
Most individual stocks will fall to some degree during a bear market, meaning you could short a great many things, but you would need some significant sums (and margin) to capitalize on it. Shorting isn't free, and if you miss your guess on the timing, you can blow through all your available capital before it goes where you want it.
It sounds though, like you want the market to get you out of the hole you dug, and that doesn't work out very often.

>>1074250
>short a great many things, but you would need some significant sums (and margin) to capitalize on it. Shorting isn't free, and if you miss your guess on the timing, you can blow through all your available capital before it goes where you want it.
>It sounds though, like you want the market to get you out of the h

okay. It sounds like i really fucked up buying ETFs. The sp500 is down 9% but i'm still out 300 bucks on my SH position.

USO is down bc oil is down but due to contigo even if oil goes back up to where it was when i bought it 53 bucks a barrel i think i will still be down several thousand.

I'm never buying an ETF again.

Is it possible to buy oil futures with around 15,000 USD? i don't want to buy on margin. I just want to oil some fucking oil without my position bleeding itself to death

>>1074262
>Is it possible to buy oil futures with around 15,000 USD?
You would need approval from a brokerage to trade futures. This will include submitting proof of things such as income, cash reserves, trading experience, etc.
Basically, the brokerage will want to know if they're likely to be on the hook for your ass.
Beyond that, current maintenance requirements for crude contracts are around $4,400. But I would seriously familiarize myself with how futures operate, if you want to avoid getting cornholed again.

>>1074274
so i would say maybe half of my losses on USO are from the drop in the spot price of oil and the other half are from the contigo/derivatives bleeding/ administration ETF fees ect?

>>1074262

>I'm never buying an ETF again.

See, this is the same type of assumption and generalization that got you into this pickle in the first place.

There is nothing inherently wrong with ETFs. Any of them. Broad market index, sector index, short, long, commodity, leveraged...they all have their place and function and generally do it well.

The problem is some investors/traders don't read the prospectus, don't understand the underlying assets, and make assumptions about what purpose the ETF is supposed to serve.

Rather than jumping from "the market is going to go down in the next 6 months so I'll buy and hold a 3x leveraged short ETF" to "I'm never buying an ETF again", why don't you chalk your losses up to a tuition payment on an investing education. Then spend some time learning what these products are for. There's nothing wrong with the products, but they're not for everyone and you need to understand them before buying.

Also, if you can't understand the product or its prospectus, that's a pretty good sign that it is not a good product for you to invest in.

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>>1074292
the reality is that I only learned about the ETF USO on a website that was probably paid for by proshares, the company that manages the etf. USO was marketed to my as a solid, long term long investment for spot crude oil. What it really is, is a position that very loosely follows oil and should not be held for more than a few days and bleeds money out the ass reguardless if oil goes up or down because while it is not leveraged it is a derivative.

ETFs are marketed in such a way that they are a scam.

>>1074305
>USO was marketed to my as a solid, long term long investment for spot crude oil

Are you sure?
This is from USO's website:

"Commodity trading is highly speculative. Commodities and futures generally are volatile and are not suitable for all investors. USO is speculative and involves a high degree of risk. Investing in USO subjects you to the risks of the oil industry. These risks could result in large fluctuations in the price of USO's shares. An investor may lose all or substantially all of an investment in USO. Funds that focus on a single sector generally experience greater volatility."

>>1073954
How much research did you do before you decided to destroy your money? I don't think people are taking enough time to learn the game before trying to play using money they can't afford to lose.

http://www.business-standard.com/article/markets/nav-is-calculated-after-expense-ratio-108062201039_1.html

The net asset value is the total assets minus the expenses divided by the total shares. So if you have 1 million dollars in assets and half a million dollar in expenses in one year with 1 million shares, your NAV is $0.5/share. ETF prices usually match the NAV and people usually don't want to pay/sell more/less than the NAV. You are seeing losses because the NAV is going to shit and prices reflect that.

>>1074330
Oh wait I didn't read. OP doesn't understand DAILY REBALANCING.

>>1074312
you are missing the big picture man. Yes on the official page everything thing is made clear but they market to dumbass stock traders like me via paid marketing websites that mis-represent ETFs as similar to stocks when in actuality they are just positions that bleed constantly and do not hold value

>>1074317
"learn the game"
I agree with you there. ETFs are pure gambling

>>1074330
my money went to shit because proshares misrepresent their investment. Oil droped 44% from when i bought USO but my position dropped 60%

>>1074305

You do realize that not all ETFs are leveraged inverse commodity plays, right?

I mean, I honestly do feel badly that you got burned by using a short term commodity fund as a long term investment. But your lack of due diligence is not the fault of anyone marketing ETFs.

For the record, there are plenty of pretty boring index/commodity ETFs that actually hold the underlying assets with no leverage and low expense ratios. Do some research on SPY, GLD, SLV, or IWM.

>>1074338
>my money went to shit because proshares misrepresent their investment. Oil droped 44% from when i bought USO but my position dropped 60%
What index are you using to measure that oil went down 44%?

>>1074346
SH is not leveraged. It has a derivatives component to it.

>>1074355
>>1074355
http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/crude-oil.aspx

>>1074338
>via paid marketing websites
Ok, but even if a "paid marketing website" told me to buy XYZ, I'd still check it out before sinking thousands into it.

>>1074338

>proshares misrepresent their investment

From page 2 of the USO prospectus:

"...absent the impact of the overall movement in crude oil prices the value of the benchmark contract would tend to decline as it nears expiration."

Nothing was misrepresented. They pretty clearly spell out that over time the value of the fund will tend to be eroded. Over the short term, large moves in the price of oil would generate value.

Since you are a self described dumbass stock trader, I can see where the prospectus could be overwhelming. But you only need to make it to page 2, where a large bold boxed paragraph with a bold heading of "Correlation Risk" explains that USO does not, in fact, track the price of crude oil over long periods of time.

But let's assume that you didn't understand what was written in the prospectus. A simple yahoo chart of USO vs spot crude prices over a 5 year period would have pretty clearly showed what the prospectus was trying to tell you. History doesn't lie.

You did not understand what you were buying. That is not Proshares fault, or anyone else but your own.

This is why I played with a paper account for a year first. In theory I was up about 33% but after fees and getting screwed on the spread and slow execution from the broker I was barely break even.

And OP it's contango not contigo. Contigo is spanish.

>>1074372
>Yes on the official page everything thing is made clear

I'm saying the real page is legit but they advertise on splash pages that misrepresent the position. They know prospectuses are like instructions. Not many people read them.

>>1074361

>not leveraged
>derivatives

You need to stick to index funds. You don't know what you're doing and you're more interested in arguing than learning.

>>1074376

Well, if your investment strategy relies on splash advertisements as your sole source of investment research, I would suggest your past performance will be indicative of future results.

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I felt bad at first but..

>They know prospectuses are like instructions. Not many people read them.

>>1074361

Also, I'll go ahead and give you this free tip.

SH will not track 1:1 with the inverse return of the S&P 500 over time. I won't bother explaining why, because you clearly don't care or can't understand. But it won't.

>>1073954

You paid 190 in brokerage to buy $4 worth of American apparel?

>>1074407

He bought 190 worth of American Apparel that's now worth 4

>>1073954
Everything you've done is high risk, try some bonds and CDs.

Also try to think aboout knock on effects. Oil is low at the moment so fuel is cheap so maybe the transport industry has cheap operating costs atm. Did the usual oil investors flee to gold? Does that mean that its price is going to go down when they return to the stock market?

>>1074464
ETF's are a lot less risk than futures right?

>>1074721
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>>1073954
What did you pay per share for SH? It might be a timing issue. I'd hold. The market is still going down.

One of his problems is that BOIL is low volume at 89k avg a day. The buy /ask could be very far off depending on the day

Plus how the fuck you hold a leveraged ETF and only get 1.4% ROI?

>>1073954
That .97% fee is tacked on at time of purchase. If you hold for a year straight they hit you again

>>1074223

12k, so added to the 4k and a bit of losses in that screenshot, you're down over 16k, and you have about 17k left. Nearly 50% losses in what, a year, I'm guessing? Holy fucking shit. You've been going around buying high-risk investments at their peak, now you want to get in to oil again at a time when pretty much everybody expects it to continue falling. You're an actual moron, stop what you're doing before you lose the lot.

>>1073954
Never hold a leveraged ETF/ETN past one week, they restructure daily because they are comprised of high risk future and options contracts. That and the associated fees, cause the returns degradation over time. Leveraged ETFs are not suitable for most investors unless you're willing to take large short-term risks.

>>1074721
Futures and ETFs are completely different instruments, but one is not fundamentally "riskier" than the other. The difference is trading an ETF is like trading a stock, where future trading is a price defined contract where you hold rights to a stock/commodity for a set price.

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>>1075688
No 1x short does not leak out. Your holdings page prolly not updating correctly.

Even SP500 3x leverage does not leak out a shit in a year.

Oil etfs are known for not trackin as accurate.

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=SH+Interactive#{%22lineColor%22:%22#009999%22,%22mfiLineWidth%22:%222%22,%22mfiPeriod%22:30,%22rsiPeriod%22:30,%22range%22:%223mo%22,%22didDisablePrePost%22:true,%22allowChartStacking%22:true}

hasnt leaked a bit in 3 months

>>1073954
you should be fine

>>1075705
>h
dude i'm telling you it leaks. The market was down 9% and i was still out 300 bucks. SH leaks like a faucet in the ghetto

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I would like to provide everyone with an update. I have liqufied the 17k i had in schwab and am opening up a futures trading account with Etrade so that i can buy a long position in crude oil without the position bleeding an obscene amount of value every week.

>>1076042

>without the position bleeding an obscene amount of value every week

You're talking about buying oil. Bleeding an obscene amount of value every week is a given at the moment.

>>1076163
I mean if i buy an oil future for one year and oil returns to 50/USD a barrel from 30/USD a barrel. I will make money right?

Will i have to re-buy the future every month due to it expiring? then i will bleed some money

>>1076244
bump..

>>1076376
bammp

>>1076244
You will have the right to buy oil at whatever price you agree to at whatever time frame you buy for. You can then sell that right to someone else.

So yes essentially you make money if it goes up in the interim, but what makes you think you know anything more about the oil market than you do the natural gas market?

>>1076244
oh jesus dude please please don't trade futures honestly you have no idea what you're doing and you're putting actual money up like just stop. just stop.

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>>1074305
>Not playing ETFs with options.

>>1076244

Oil is more likely to hit $10 a barrel this year than it is to hit $50 a barrel. If you're really convinced that oil will recover then buy shares in BP or something. Really though, I'd recommend that you just stop before you lose everything.

>>1077055
It'll probably go back up to 50 in the summer