Sentences with phrase «leveraged bet on»

Aside from the black - box nature of the banking system, the other big problem is that banks are inevitably a leveraged bet on the economy.

You're making a leveraged bet on stocks.

Mining stocks are traditionally a leveraged bet on the gold price.

Hedge fund managers may make a leveraged bet on market trends.

Leveraged TSX ETFs aim to offer a two - for - one leveraged bet on the direction of oil prices and other commodities or index prices.

Taking the broad stock market as a whole, and considering all stocks — not simply the largest of the large caps — investors are now making the broadest and most leveraged bet on overvalued equities in U.S. history.

But the highly - leveraged bet on content still may not pay off given the high price and regulatory risks.

They're effectively leveraged bets on spread movements in indices of credit default swaps.

The global asset bubble financial economy has made many leveraged bets on expensive assets under the assumption the global central banks will always keep rates low and if we have a correction bail investors out.

Not exact matches

Although some people will use leverage to make a single big bet on a stock, a more conservative approach is to put together a diversified portfolio.

In a large Monday trade, one trader used a strategy called a 1x2 call spread, which is a leveraged way to make a bullish bet on Nike's stock — in this case, for only 27 cents per share.

On Monday, Cramer wanted investors to keep an eye on the risky, leveraged funds that enable traders to bet against volatility, defined as the amount of uncertainty in the size and direction of changes in the market and most commonly tracked by the CBOE Volatility Index, or VIOn Monday, Cramer wanted investors to keep an eye on the risky, leveraged funds that enable traders to bet against volatility, defined as the amount of uncertainty in the size and direction of changes in the market and most commonly tracked by the CBOE Volatility Index, or VIon the risky, leveraged funds that enable traders to bet against volatility, defined as the amount of uncertainty in the size and direction of changes in the market and most commonly tracked by the CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX.

To make matters worse, most CFD providers let people trade on leverage, meaning they lend people money to make bets with.

«Bet on future profit to refill the lost coins - Long term, low leverage: Regardless of malleability and regulatory issues, MtGox's main problems are massive robbery and poor bitcoin accounting.

Meanwhile, flat gold prices weren't enough to keep Direxion Daily Junior Gold Miners Bull 3X ETF (NYSEMKT: JNUG)-- a volatile, leveraged bullish bet on the precious metal — from falling 5 %.

When taking on a leveraged position, these bets might be outsized compared to your portfolio, especially given the volatility of the crypto - world, while also coming with huge transaction costs in the form of commissions and fees.

You're basically leveraging up to make a concentrated bet on a single asset that hopefully goes up.

It will be even worse for states that are bargaining with the future and betting on a quick return to the false prosperity that was the product of an increasingly leveraged society, 1984 - 2007.

These instruments are meant for day traders seeking extra leverage on an ultra short - term (usually 1 day) bet.

Using leverage — borrowed money — to bet on equities looks like a bad idea right now.

Mortgage REITs are even scarier, with sky high leverage and giant bets on the yield curve and / or credit spreads.

It's a serious business for me too... and unless you think we're on the verge of a ridiculous valuation / leverage - induced bursting bubble, equities are inevitably the best long - term bet for any investor.

No doubt Ed will have more info on this, but the paper «Betting Against Beta» by Frazzini & Pedersen to which he refers above can be found at http://www.econ.yale.edu/~af227/pdf/Betting%20Against%20Beta%20-%20Frazzini%20and%20Pedersen.pdf The basic idea of the paper is that investors are apt to bid up high beta stocks because it's a way of leveraging their portfolio without actually borrowing to invest.

[Yeah, I know: In due course, some asshole will blow himself sky - high on some exotic spread bet he's managed to leverage out the wazoo... but he'll be an exception].

Time for a step - change... Overall, it's a pretty stable core business, so management needs to start milking it for cash to return to shareholders (via dividends / buy - backs), or else accelerate growth by ramping up its leverage & acquisition pipeline / spending (more acquisitions, bigger acquisitions, or both...)-- at this point, I'd still prefer a bet on the latter.

So there's no rush, but I suspect 2017 - 2019 may finally be the perfect accumulation period for a balls - to - the - wall generational bet on natural resources... with the prudent version of this bet being focused on picks & shovels providers, which should be less dependent on timing / leverage & even offer the opportunity to own a great business or two.

By «limiting bets on more volatile assets like stocks and commodities and using leverage to load up on safer assets like government bonds,» risk - parity funds attempt to minimize risk of collapse of any one market, the article explains.

A hedge fund is a scheme designed to help hedge fund managers obtain billion dollar paydays through the use of leverage to make speculative bets on all manner of assets.

Most sophisticated institutions are investing on margin, making big bets on certain investments and leveraging up when they believe they are very right.

As if those statistics weren't scary enough, the rules of currency trading allow investors to leverage every dollar they bet on a 50 - to - 1 ratio.

The other alternative I can think of (and this is closer to the leveraged bets of macro speculators) is to buy options on bond ETFs.

You can obviously bet on rising interest rates by shorting government bonds, or buying inverse bond ETFs (for example, TBT for inverse long - term bonds — do note that the path taken by returns matters for inverse and leveraged ETFs.)

But Target Restock on its own couldn't leverage Google's voice computing platform, so Target is essentially placing its bets on Google.