{"id":695454,"date":"2010-03-18T22:15:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T02:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/great-chart-of-how-it-looks-when-an-etf-dies-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-18T22:15:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T02:15:20","slug":"great-chart-of-how-it-looks-when-an-etf-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/695454","title":{"rendered":"Great Chart Of How It Looks When An ETF Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via our friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/sellputs\">@sellputs<\/a>, here&#8217;s a chart of the UltraShort Oil &amp; Gas ProShares (DUG) ETF.<\/p>\n<p>This particular ETF &#8212; on a daily basis &#8212; aims to move double the inverse of the Dow Jones US Oil &amp; Gas Index. But like many ETFs it just rots and rots over time, so while it may be fine as an asset for a day trade, you&#8217;re sadly mistaken if you think it&#8217;s a passive investment.<\/p>\n<p>But even as a trade, watch how the volume has shrunk over time.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4ba2dd847f8b9a7836be0600-604-380\/chart.jpg?resize=604%2C380\" border=\"0\" alt=\"chart\" width=\"604\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/great-chart-of-how-it-looks-when-an-etf-dies-2010-3#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gold-threatened-by-etf-overhang-2010-3\">Credit Suisse: The Upcoming ETF Unwind Will Pummel Gold<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/austria-etf-under-pressure-as-crisis-mounts-2009-12\">This Austria ETF Will Be Slammed By A Crisis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/oil-etfs-are-broken-2009-9\">Oil ETF&#8217;s Are Broken<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/6ar3tO76Qbc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via our friend @sellputs, here&#8217;s a chart of the UltraShort Oil &amp; Gas ProShares (DUG) ETF. This particular ETF &#8212; on a daily basis &#8212; aims to move double the inverse of the Dow Jones US Oil &amp; Gas Index. But like many ETFs it just rots and rots over time, so while it may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2UV0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}