@DJClayworth - If the horizon for the car fund is a couple years out, and the risk of inflation is scarier than the risk of loss of principal,
some of the ultrashort bond funds may make sense.
With the launch
of the UltraShort ProShares, the firm now offers 12 ETFs.
These lasers generate a periodic stream
of ultrashort light pulses to create the comb.
Most of the lasers utilized in research laboratories are based on titanium: sapphire (Ti: Sa) crystals, and this type of instrument has been the dominant tool in the production
of ultrashort light pulses for over 20 years.
Petaluma, Calif. — based Raydiance, Inc., however, hopes to overcome that obstacle with the latest version
of its ultrashort pulse (USP) laser system unveiled Wednesday.
HZB - scientist Emad Aziz, who leads the Joint lab between HZB and Freie Universität Berlin, has developed and installed a new tool to investigate ultrafast dynamics in solutions and at interfaces with the use
of ultrashort laser pulses.
This approach, known as fluctuation X-ray scattering, is based on analyzing the angular correlations
of ultrashort, intense X-ray pulses scattered from non-crystalline biomolecules.
The scientists at the Berlin Max Born Institute are among the world's leading experts in the field
of ultrashort laser pulses.
To speed up these processes, researchers have recently started to explore the use
of ultrashort laser pulses that can switch magnetic domains in solid - state materials.
Nonlinear optical processes provide the basis for important functionalities in photonics, such as frequency conversion of light, generation
of ultrashort light pulses, as well as optical processing and manipulation.
Not exact matches
Last Friday, the ProShares
UltraShort MSCI Emerging Markets ETF ($ EEV) consolidated near the high
of the previous day's powerful downward move.
Since selling off to «undercut» support
of its 50 - day moving average two weeks ago, the inversely correlated ProShares
UltraShort Euro ($ EUO) has been trading in a tightening, sideways range, holding above support
of its primary uptrend line and 50 - day moving average.
The first is ProShares
UltraShort Financials ($ SKF), which is another trend reversal play
of a «short ETF.»
Since September
of 2011, the ProShares
UltraShort 20 + Year Treasury (TBT) has found support at, and has been consolidating in a tight trading range between $ 17.80 and $ 19.90.
Nevertheless, we are now targeting ProShares
UltraShort Real Estate ETF ($ SRS), an inversely correlated «short ETF,» for potential swing trade buy entry going into today (detailed trigger, stop, and target prices were already provided to subscribers
of The Wagner Daily swing trade newsletter).
The ProShares
UltraShort Utilities ETF provides 2x leveraged inverse exposure to a market - cap - weighted index that measures the performance
of large US utilities companies.
Today, we enter the world
of fixed - income (bond) ETFs with a potential intermediate - term trade setup into ProShares
UltraShort 20 + Year T - bond ($ TBT).
Since October
of 2011, the ProShares
UltraShort Real Estate ETF (SRS) has been in a significant downtrend.
We bought ProShares
UltraShort Basic Materials ETF ($ SMN) on Nov. 7 and ProShares
UltraShort Real Estate ETF ($ SRS) on Nov. 5, two inversely correlated ETFs that move in the opposite direction
of their underlying indexes.
Subsequently, ProShares
UltraShort Financial ETF ($ SKF) pulled back and hit our adjusted stop price, which knocked us out
of the swing trade with a decent gain as well.
Those are the returns
of the ProShares
UltraShort 20 + Year Treasury ETF (TBT).
Since pulling back to test support
of its 50 - day moving average on July 3, the ProShares
UltraShort Silver ETF ($ ZSL) has reclaimed near - term support
of its 20 - day exponential moving average (EMA) and has been consolidating along this key mark for the past eight sessions.
Since setting a swing high on March 19th, the ProShares
UltraShort Lehman 20 + Bond Fund (TBT) has pulled back over the past two sessions and is nearing support
of its 10 - day MA.
Since January 13th
of this year, the ProShares
UltraShort Eruo (EUO) has been in a distinct downtrend.
There's not a shred
of evidence that
ultrashort term events like childbirth cause ANY changes to DNA, let alone deleterious changes.
One type
of laser that's particularly suited for quantum dots is a mode - locked laser, which passively generates
ultrashort pulses less than one picosecond in duration.
We used
ultrashort pulses in microstructured optical fibers to demonstrate the formation
of an artificial event horizon in optics.
These feature make
ultrashort electron pulse trains an ideal tool with which to monitor, in real time, the ultrafast processes initiated by the impact
of light oscillations onto matter.
The approach appears in the Proceedings
of the Royal Society A. [David Ricardo Leal - Ayala et al., «Toner - print removal from paper by long and
ultrashort pulsed lasers»]
Like many
of the projects undertaken in Raskar's Camera Culture Group, the new system uses a time -
of - flight camera, which fires
ultrashort bursts
of laser light into a scene and measures the time it takes their reflections to return.
Directly from the laser, these bullets are round (about 0.4 inch, or one centimeter, in diameter) and short (about 10 microns), corresponding to the
ultrashort duration
of the pulses.
Using tunneling ionization and
ultrashort laser pulses, scientists have been able to observe the structure
of a molecule and the changes that take place within billionths
of a billionth
of a second when it is excited by an electron impact.
Jennifer Yee, an astronomer at the Harvard — Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and KMTNet team member, says that longer monitoring would make it easier to detect the signals
of rogue Earths — and to distinguish them from confounding effects such as stellar flares, which can mimic
ultrashort microlensing events.
Of the more than 2,600 microlensing events the OGLE team observed and analyzed, six were «
ultrashort,» lasting less than half a day — suggesting they were caused by objects somewhere between one and 10 times the Earth's mass.
Tsen submitted a proposal last month to the U.S. National Institutes
of Health for a $ 1.2 - million grant to buy an
ultrashort - pulse laser system.
«New tool to investigate the chemistry
of nature: Laser - based tabletop setup generates
ultrashort XUV light pulses.»
In order to observe the ultrafast electron motion in the inner shells
of atoms with short light pulses, the pulses must not only be
ultrashort, but very bright, and the photons delivered must have sufficiently high energy.
Comb technology has already had a large impact on studies
of how atoms and molecules respond to the strong electric fields obtainable in intense,
ultrashort light pulses.
Among other achievements, his group has used the response
of electrons to measure the electric field
of a laser's
ultrashort pulses and display the waveform, much like displaying a radio - frequency wave on an oscilloscope.
Anatomy
of a Comb Optical frequency combs are generated by devices called mode - locked lasers, which create
ultrashort pulses
of light.
They used brilliant,
ultrashort X-ray pulses produced by LCLS to explore the resulting shock effects on a timescale
of femtoseconds and from an atom's - eye view.
«The work shows how magnetization
of nanoscale magnets can be steered by intense
ultrashort electron pulses,» said Alexander Schäffer, a doctoral student at Martin - Luther - Universität Halle - Wittenberg in Halle, Germany, and lead author
of the paper.
Kepler - 78b is a member
of a new class
of «
ultrashort period» planets recently identified by the Kepler spacecraft.
EIROforum organisations are in the midst
of developing some
of the most sophisticated machines ever conceived — just two examples are the European Southern Observatory's Extremely Large Telescope, the largest optical telescope in the world, and the European XFEL, a light source that will generate
ultrashort X-ray flashes up to one billion times brighter than current X-ray sources.
A very tight corner comes up quickly, allowing Krolikowski to show off his car's surprising braking ability, immediately followed by an impressive display
of the Impreza's
ultrashort gearing (the tachometer reads 3000 rpm at 55 mph in top — fifth — gear, and the car maxes out at about 105 mph).
There is some truth to that, but the sheer maneuverability
of the smaller Wrangler, with its
ultrashort turning radius, allows it to go places where the larger SUVs can't.
UltraShort ProShares offer many advantages over shorting baskets
of stocks, individual stocks or ETFs.
I had a feeling about the financial markets, and so around the end
of September, after the collapse
of Lehman Brothers, I invested in the ProShares
UltraShort Financials ETF (SKF).
ProShares
UltraShort Dow30 This ETF is also managed by ProFunds, but unlike its cousin Ultra, the
UltraShort seeks a return
of -200 %
of the return
of the DJIA on any single day.
For example, ProShares
UltraShort S&P 500 (symbol SDS on New York) aims to move 200 % in the opposite direction
of the daily performance
of the S&P 500 Index.