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ETF Black Magic: What's Really in the Hat?

By Shah Gilani, Chief Investment Strategist, Money Morning • @ShahGilani_TW • December 15, 2017

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Editor's Note: Passive investing is more popular than ever, but it comes with unique risks. Shah detailed those dangers after "Black Monday," the 2015 market plunge that wreaked havoc on ETFs. He also shared a safer way to play these trading tools. Here's what he suggested...

In the investment markets - the portions that affect you and me - exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have emerged as the ultimate market disruptor.

This massive shift is due to more than investor fickleness. ETFs trade all day like stocks - making them better than mutual funds. There are more than 1,500 of them, according to ETF.com. There's an ETF for almost every industry, index, asset class, and risk-exposure play you can think of.

ETFs are modern-day magical trading tools.

But if you know anything about magic, you know there are times where the trick goes awry.

The hat lacks the rabbit.

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The woman in the box actually does get cut in half.

The same types of tragedies can befall ETF investors. It's rare. And it's not intentional - it's just what happens when the magic trick doesn't work... as millions of ETF investors and traders just found out the hard way on Aug. 24, 2015.

Here's what happened, what's going to happen again, and a strategy that will protect you - without having to "cash out" and hide yourself on the sidelines.

And back here, I'm going to show how to make the ETF magic work for you... as long as it holds.

In short, I'm going to give you the best of both worlds...

Problems for ETFs on Black Monday

On the morning of Aug. 24, 2015, all hell broke loose in ETF land.

The "magic box" didn't work.

Before the open that morning, stock market futures indicated the Dow Jones Industrial Average could open down 1,000 points. Almost all stocks that opened traded down.

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A lot of those stocks were temporarily halted when they reached "limit up/limit down" levels. Lots of stocks didn't open near the time they should have. Against that backdrop - throughout the morning - futures prices were swinging widely and triggering their own halts.

This magical breakdown created a wicked problem for ETFs.

Here's why.

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Shah Gilani boasts a financial pedigree unlike any other. He ran his first hedge fund in 1982 from his seat on the floor of the Chicago Board of Options Exchange. When options on the Standard & Poor's 100 began trading on March 11, 1983, Shah worked in "the pit" as a market maker.

The work he did laid the foundation for what would later become the VIX - to this day one of the most widely used indicators worldwide. After leaving Chicago to run the futures and options division of the British banking giant Lloyd's TSB, Shah moved up to Roosevelt & Cross Inc., an old-line New York boutique firm. There he originated and ran a packaged fixed-income trading desk, and established that company's "listed" and OTC trading desks.

Shah founded a second hedge fund in 1999, which he ran until 2003.

Shah's vast network of contacts includes the biggest players on Wall Street and in international finance. These contacts give him the real story - when others only get what the investment banks want them to see.

Today, as editor of Hyperdrive Portfolio, Shah presents his legion of subscribers with massive profit opportunities that result from paradigm shifts in the way we work, play, and live.

Shah is a frequent guest on CNBC, Forbes, and MarketWatch, and you can catch him every week on Fox Business's Varney & Co.

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5 years ago

A lot of that will happen with the new BITCOIN ETF.

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