America Risks Running Out of Tickers for Single-Stock ETFs (yahoo.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/10/07/1614245/america-risks-running-out-of-tickers-for-single-stock-etfs
- Source link: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/america-risks-running-tickers-single-114608198.html
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Coming soon: EEETFTFTFs! (Score:4, Interesting)
"America Risks Running Out of Tickers for Single-Stock ETFs".
Let me preface this by specifying that I don't actually want to know the answer to this question, because I couldn't possibly hate finance more, but: What is the point of an "exchange-traded fund" that tracks a single stock? Isn't that the same thing as buying the stock?
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(I guess technically I should have called my hopefully fictional financial instrument an "ETETETFFF", rather than an "EEETFTFTF". That's why the real finance bros make the big bucks! Well, that and a legacy economic system that's just thinly disguised feudalism.)
Re:Coming soon: EEETFTFTFs! (Score:5, Informative)
No the funds typically are leveraged and may even be inverse leveraged. You don't buy a single-stock ETF if you want to bet on the underlying value of a company, you buy it if you want to bet a multiple of the underlying value.
E.g. take Random Inc. their stock price RND = $100. Let's assume there's an ETF called RNDM that is inverse leveraged by a factor of 2. You put $100 into that fund. Tomorrow RND stock increases by 10%, you now only have $80 left. The fund provided you a way of short selling without engaging in a short selling contract. Likewise if you think RND stock may actually increase by 20% tomorrow because of a cool earning and you find an ETF called RNDB that is 2x positively leveraged, if that price goes up 20% your value goes up 40%.
It's a way of multiplying profits, and along with it losses and risk. They are usually very short term speculative funds, not the kind you buy and hold on to.
Another dumb fucking idea brought to you from the world of finance.
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So who is the other side of this??? in a stock purchase you buy, they get cash and walk away, so for you to sell the same thing happens. in an ETF - if you want to leave the fund manager pays you out and then turns around and sells the same stock equivalent.
if it's inverse leveraged 2x.... there has to be someone on the other side willing to pay out on your buy.... So it sounds like a bloody bookie/casino vs. owning portions of a company.....
Re:Coming soon: EEETFTFTFs! (Score:5, Interesting)
The exchange-traded fund is borrowing money and using that to leverage the short, either by doubling up on trades or something similar synthetically with options contracts. Either way, they have negative carry, because they involve leverage there is a cost of doing business that is a negative on every day you hold that asset.
There are few cases where you'd want to use these over doing the same action yourself, and usually the reason people use them is because they're not allowed for whatever reason to do the direct action themselves. Ultimately, steer clear of them unless you know what you're doing, and if you know what you're doing you don't need my advice.
Re:Coming soon: EEETFTFTFs! (Score:4, Interesting)
One of the benefits of them is you can trade them after hours, which you cannot do with options. This lets you game after-hours news.
But for most people they are a terrible idea to play with as you and GGP point out. I used to trade triple-short and triple-long oil ETFs when they were very high volatility back around 2002. It was a good way to make some money on small moves playing the channels. I wouldn't touch them today though; the algorithms have too much of an advantage.
Re:Coming soon: EEETFTFTFs! (Score:4, Interesting)
Yes there is someone on the other side, just not the company. Most of the finance world is very much a casino / bookie. People are betting with each other as to what will happen. The entire concept of short selling works like this too. You can't short a stock against the company - what company would bet against themselves at the expense of shareholders? You bet against someone else who will take your bet.
The same applies to these leveraged funds. The sources of the funding comes from someone betting against you.
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The runner of the 'ETF' stock may short the underlying stock, or place leveraged option trades on it with the goal of paying out profits regardless of the stocks actual performance. You are betting that the ETF runner can day trade that stock on your behalf better than you can.
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"Single-stock ETFs are designed for traders who wish to speculate on the outcome of a single company's short-term price movements." In short, they are an easy, one-click way buy stocks in a leveraged way that creates higher gains (and losses) than buying the stock directly. I wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole.
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They're highly leveraged and rebalance every day, the idea is if the underlying goes up $1 the ETF goes up $5 and vice versa. There's a lot more to be said about the ruinous effect of holding them overnight due to rebalance decay but anyway the firms making these investment vehicles aren't investing in them nor are they concerned by their performance, these exist strictly to generate fees on the trading churn. TL;DR Wall street has been losing too much market share to sports gambling and this is a strateg
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No , because that doesn't have the leech like sucking of money off the top that a single stock does not have. You know, so the stock can go up 25% and your fund goes up 5%.
TickerV6 (Score:5, Funny)
Don't worry, as people adopt TickerV6 everything will work itself out.
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But that's what BigTicker wants you to believe. All the tickers are controlled by Bill Gates to implant microchips in your transactions. Don't be fooled, sheeple! :P
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I'm sure someone will "ticker-squat" and buy up all the remaining 4 letter tickers.
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> Don't worry, as people adopt TickerV6 everything will work itself out.
30 years later: "Slashdot - Why won't people adopt TickerV6?"
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> 30 years later: "Slashdot - Why won't people adopt TickerV6?"
I blame their use of hexadecimal digits.
Easy! (Score:1)
Easy fix: Use emojis.
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peach peach peach is happy to take your money
Re:Easy fix: Use emojis. (Score:2)
Don't laugh. I once worked for a company who rented their software rather than buy. The database used a 2-character product code, as it was designed for domains that had relatively few products.
But the marketers wanted to keep track of which ad campaign a purchase was tied to, not just the product ID. However, the software didn't have that feature, so they came up with a character set for each campaign. But after a while they ran out of "normal" characters and used up just about every character in the keybo
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LOL. Sadly this is all too common. One time a friend of mine and I needed to make a simple text protocol for two microcontrollers to talk over local serial on a PCB. We used ":-)" as ACK and ":-(" as NAK (we were more than a few beers in and it was just a prototype experiment).
Do what other services do (Score:2)
Do what other services do and tack on a random number at the end. Sure it is stupid, just like everywhere else that uses that method, but it *is* a solution
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That will add 10 ticker symbols. What part of "Four Character Limit" are you having a problem with.
Install ETF trade32 (Score:2)
Install ETF trade32
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> Install ETF trade32
How about upgrade to 'trade64' with backwards support for 'trade32' ?
SEC approves too many junk ETFs w low liquidity (Score:2)
There are just too many ETFs that trade with no volume which has no reason to exist. Just like penny stocks with too low a price, some of these ETFs should be delisted when they can't trade with any liquidity.
They could also start adding lower case significance to the last few letters, such AAzz which would be different from AAZZ. This would increase the combination to about 2 million four letter ETFs, which is a ridiculous number to follow.
Rename MST (Score:2)
To GambaStrategy.
Stock market gambling (Score:3)
The stock market is ever more disconnected from the underlying value of the companies. It promotes ever more outright gambling. This is not a good thing.
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> The stock market is ever more disconnected from the underlying value of the companies. It promotes ever more outright gambling. This is not a good thing.
It seems inevitable that without some form of governance or forced restraint, that this would be the result of the stock market. Once it started allowing futures markets and pure speculative trading on imagined scenarios, it's only a matter of time before the fantasy subsumes the entire beast. When will it stop? When we have another full-fledged depression and the people playing the big money games lose their value. So long as it only fucks with the little guy and steals pensions from grandma, it's fine. It
Emoji To The Rescue! (Score:2)
Sounds like a great place to use the wonderful emoji characters which have infected so many other things where actual letters should be used.
Because who doesn't know how to pronounce a string of ambiguous images.
ROFL, HAHA! (Score:2)
Even that one is free!
Just allow number to be used to create another million new combinations.
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> That's all
> Actually, never mind, abolish the stock market.
I guess you own a lot of surplus Neanderthal-era caves (already furnished with "art") that you want to rent out ... along with expensive leases for grazing property where fruits & berries & veggies can be gathered by hand? /s