DUG seems like a very poor vehicle to play the short side of crude. Anything better that you can take a straight long position in (this is for an account that cannot trade futures, options, or short) ? Thx
Thanks. I believe DEE is a double short commodity fund rather than a short or double short crude play. I'm looking for the opposite of "oil", either single or double short.
Are you hyping my pick of the year... DUG DOES NOT SHORT OIL!!!!!!!!!! IT shorts the oil stocks..... Go with DEE, if you want to short oil short USO or OIL I would rather just buy DEE it shorts a bunch of different commodities, not just oil. Waiting for more of a pullback below $20 to get more.
I believe DEE is a double short of the Deutsche Bank DBC "Deutsche Bank Commodity Index" http://dbfunds.db.com/dbc/index.aspx The index has a 55% allocation to energy thus a very high correlation to crude oil. I think currently that's the best "Short oil ETF" that can be owned by a 401k.
Bookmark this site: http://www.macroshares.com/public/macro/macrohome.aspx and see when they come out with new versions of their short crude oil ETFs.