How to short Nasdaq ETF safely without using a lot of capital if the market were to turn bearish? What is the best platform and instrument to short the US market?

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Frankie Rappaport

04 Apr 2020

Inverse, or leveraged ETFs are not a form of robust longterm investments, neither are equity options to the retail investor.

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Kelly Trinh

24 Nov 2019

Backoffice technical at financial services firm

No need any fancy options if you just want to have opposite exposure to the QQQ ETF that matchs NASDAQ 100 just get the ProShares inverse ETF (ticker PSQ) which is designed to give daily change same as QQQ but opposite direction.

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Jonathan Chia Guangrong

07 Jun 2019

SOC at Local FI

Buy put options, or sell call options on the Etf. Both will achieve roughly the same effect though t...

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Is TD Ameritrade best for buying and selling in US market? 0 commission fee, does it mean we do not have to pay any fee when buy sell shares and etfs using their platform? Or there are other fee?

DCA which platform to use? I plan to invest 100 USD into total world etf (VWRA- London market) monthly. May I know which platform to use to be cost-effective? or should i DCA into VT- US market ?

Can Singaporeans buy ETF in the US stock market using TD, IB platforms?

Is it rationale to invest in ETF as the stock market has risen quite a lot for US, China n Europe not and the ETF still invest in the indices of the US，tech, mkt that has risen a lot already.?

Planning to use FSMOne platform for RSP ETF as its probably one of the cheapest platform in the market now. However, should there be a new platform with even cheaper fee/better benefit in the future, how can I switch over to the new platform?

Is TD Ameritrade best for buying and selling in US market? 0 commission fee, does it mean we do not have to pay any fee when buy sell shares and etfs using their platform? Or there are other fee?

DCA which platform to use? I plan to invest 100 USD into total world etf (VWRA- London market) monthly. May I know which platform to use to be cost-effective? or should i DCA into VT- US market ?

Can Singaporeans buy ETF in the US stock market using TD, IB platforms?

Is it rationale to invest in ETF as the stock market has risen quite a lot for US, China n Europe not and the ETF still invest in the indices of the US，tech, mkt that has risen a lot already.?