In the past, I have been an active investor in oil via the USO ETF, but I stepped aside because of USO’s poor performance in tracking the spot price of oil. The reason for the poor performance was not a mystery—oil futures have been in steep contango, with the front-month price lower than subsequent delivery dates. When USO rolls their contracts into longer-dated contracts …
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Since November 2009 I have been tracking the sometimes eerie day to day correspondence between the current value of SPY and its value 6 years ago. In 2011 the market moved up strongly in the first half, a performance considerably stronger than its counterpart 6 years ago. No double dip, no “square root.” This has been a powerful bull market. . .. . .. . …
UPDATE Credit Suisse terminated XIV due to a greater than 80% drop in its indicative value on 5-Feb-2018. The final payout was $5.99 per share. The last day of trading was the 15th of February 2018. In the prospectuses for XIV, there are some disconcerting discussions about termination events. For XIV the termination event is triggered if the daily percentage drop exceeds 80%. I did …
