What's more important is the type of person
making leveraged bets.
Hedge fund managers may
make a leveraged bet on market trends.
You're
making a leveraged bet on stocks.
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.
To
make matters worse, most CFD providers let people trade on
leverage, meaning they lend people money to
make bets with.
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.
You're basically
leveraging up to
make a concentrated
bet on a single asset that hopefully goes up.
Both cars will
leverage Formula One technology and engineering, and you can
bet both Aston and Mercedes will
make a beeline for the Nürburgring with them.
It is no surprise that the bad credit risks found the fools that assumed that housing prices could only go up, and incurred considerable
leverage to
make their
bets.
Yes, some funds gun for big gains,
making large,
leveraged bets.
There is still more
leverage to come out of the system, and owning companies that have
made too many risky loans, or companies that need a lot of lending in order to survive are not good
bets here.
It
makes aggressive
bets using a small number of stock and bond ETFs, sometimes with «
leveraged» ETFs, and can move from 100 % stocks to 100 % bonds in one day.
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.
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.