CPDAggie10 said:
Mostly Foggy Recollection said:
It's not a buy and hold ETF that many older generations love.
It's something you buy when markets are at or near tops, and when there are corrections, your plans are to sell and buy back lower.
I buy shares and then sell the hell out of premium on it so I'm usually in UVXY, but I'm always lowering my cost basis. Last swing (50% from 10 to 15) my cost basis was 8.30 because of selling puts and calls over a long range.
If you don't plan on selling premium, this isn't a bad time to buy it, but understand you may be upside down through the rest of Q1 if we don't have a healthy correction but it won't be a ton. You could always average down.
Interesting strategy on the premium selling. I Never thought of doing this on an inverse etf. I need to try this.
Thanks for posting.
For less-than-immediate hedges, I actually have had decent success on buying puts on the bullish versions of triple or double leveraged ETFs, making the time decay work in my favor. Look back at the track record of either the bear or bull version - many reverse splits over time. However, they're quite thinly traded, so I don't recommend them for extremely short expirations.
TQQQ, SPXL, and TNA are my favorites for put buying.