I was reading <a href="http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/03/new-home-sales.html">bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/03/new-home-sales.html</a>, which is basically a chart of how much gold would buy a house Personally, I'm a housing bear and would prefer that housing bottoms in...
First time post (this blog is great).
I recently came across this family of ETFs (http://www.proshares.com/funds) that allow you to "short" certain sectors (incl. financial and real estate). It seems a bit safer than real shorting. Does anyone know if there are any caveats to these...