Monday, November 22, 2010

Coming soon to make investors lose more money: leveraged and reverse VIX ETFs

Actually they are ETNs.

When you thought they issuers of bizarre ETFs designed to make mom & pop investors lose their pants and shirts, then comes new financial inventions: leveraged VIX ETNs.

Please see all our posts on their VXX to see how dreadful it is.

It comes it all kinds of flavours, 1X, inverse, 2X.


Read the filing here.

"VIX Short-Term Futures™ Index due December 4, 2030 (the “Inverse VIX Short Term ETNs”), the VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Medium Term ETN linked to the S&P 500 VIX Mid-Term Futures™ Index due December 4, 2030 (the “Inverse VIX Medium Term ETNs” and collectively with the Inverse VIX Short Term ETNs, the “Inverse ETNs”), the VelocityShares VIX Short Term ETN linked to the S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures™ Index due December 4, 2030 (the “Long VIX Short Term ETNs”), the VelocityShares VIX Medium Term ETN linked to the S&P 500 VIX Mid-Term Futures™ Index due December 4, 2030 (the “Long VIX Medium Term ETNs” and collectively with the VIX Short Term ETNs, the “Long ETNs”), the VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX Short Term ETN linked to the S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures™ Index due December 4, 2030 (the “2x Long VIX Short Term ETNs”) and the VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX Medium Term ETN linked to the S&P 500 VIX Mid-Term Futures™ Index due December 4, 2030 (the “2x Long VIX Medium Term ETNs” and collectively with the Leveraged Short Term ETNs, the “2x Long ETNs”)."

We still await leverage potash ETFs, inflation ETF,  interest rate ETFs, bailout ETFs.

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