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#1 How To Profit From Greek Elections
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06-18-2012, 12:22 AM
I am always looking for fairly conservative ways to profit from whatever is going on. I recently closed out some short positions and went long, which has paid off so far.
But I am not nearly sophisticated enough to buy individual European stocks. That's why the following is of interest:
How to profit from the Greek election
As of this writing, the wire reports are that the New Democracy party may be able to form a governing coalition. If this turns out to be true, there is a conservative way to make money from Greek elections.
The New Democracy party is the pro-bailout party and is committed to honoring the agreements Greece made. If this party succeeds, there will be more stability. Read: Pro-bailout party leads in Greek election tally
The conservative way that I favor is to buy a basket of stocks in the largest European multi-national firms such as Siemens SI +2.70% , Royal Dutch Shell RDS.A +2.39% , Novartis NVS +0.17% , and Glaxo SmithKline GSK -0.53% .
Fortunately, there is an exchange-traded fund that makes the task easy. We have taken a long position in SPD STOXX Europe 50 FEU +1.78% .
This ETF represents some of Europe's largest multi-national firms.
FEU Is Cheap
The P/E ratio is 9.18. The price/book is 1.49. Further the ETF provides a respectable dividend yield of 4.66%.
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06-18-2012, 01:44 PM
Short the Euro......
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06-18-2012, 02:49 PM
Last edited by AmPat; 06-18-2012 at 03:02 PM.
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06-18-2012, 03:07 PM
A "short" is a contract that essentially bets that the value of the commodity is going to go down over the term of the contract. If that happens you make money because you replace the commodity at the end with the same amount at lower cost, and pocket the difference.
If the commodity goes up......you're hosed, and have to make up the difference in cash........
doc
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