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TSE:HIU
Short? The chart shows erosion. The ETF must have incurred a lot of transaction costs. The erosion is because the S&P has been rising. The S&P has been coming off in the last while, but he hasn’t seen a corresponding uptick. When trading something like this, a derivative of the S&P 500, you should look at the S&P 500 chart to begin with, which has support at $1980, and big support at $1800. The momentum indicator never confirmed a new high, making this a low quality new high. To build a Bear case, the S&P has to first break $1980, and then there is a Bear case. Right now he would not short this, even though the market is losing momentum.
This is effectively a way of raising cash. An “inverse” is the opposite of the market. If you buy a 5% position in an inverse, you have 5% that is not in the market, plus you are offsetting a holding you have, something like General Electric (GE-N). He is not making a bet on the market, he just wants to keep his GE and offset it with an inverse ETF.