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The FAS and FAZ Make Stock Market Volatility Look Like Child's Play

Since Monday, when several news items (1. Citigroup (NYSE: C) said it would be profitable, 2. Fed Chairman Bernanke addressed mark-to-market issues, and 3. Barney Frank said he expects to see the uptick rule back sometime within a month) sparked a rally in financials, volatility in two 3x leveraged ETF’s has been off-the-charts. The Financial Bull 3x (NYSE: FAS) and Financial Bear 3x (NYSE: FAZ), two fairly new ETF’s, have had double-digit percentage moves in 2 of the last 4 trading days.

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