A New Sector ETF Defends Against Rising Rates On The Cheap


27% profit every 20 days?

This is what Nic Chahine averages with his option buys. Not selling covered calls or spreads… BUYING options. Most traders don’t even have a winning percentage of 27% buying options. He has an 83% win rate. Here’s how he does it.


As investors have come to grips with the fact that it is highly likely that the Federal Reserve will finally raise interest rates next month, 10-year Treasury yields have begun pricing in that view by soaring nearly 8.5 percent over the past month.

 

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Although financial services stocks, on a historical basis, have questionable reactions to increases in borrowing costs, conventional wisdom holds that the sector is positively correlated to higher interest rates. The corresponding exchange traded funds are reflecting that thesis as the Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLF), the largest financial services ETF, is higher by 2.1 percent over the past month. 

 

With rising rates right around the corner (maybe), investors might want to have a look at a new financial services ETF, the Financial Services Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLFS). The Financial Services Select Sector SPDR, which debuted last month, was brought to market ahead of real estate becoming the eleventh Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) sector. That change is scheduled to occur after markets close on August 31, 2016. In November 2014, S&P Dow Jones Indices and MSCI, two of the largest providers of indices for use with ETFs, announced real estate – previously included as part of the financial services group – would become its own sector.

 


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27% profit every 20 days?

This is what Nic Chahine averages with his option buys. Not selling covered calls or spreads… BUYING options. Most traders don’t even have a winning percentage of 27% buying options. He has an 83% win rate. Here’s how he does it.


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