The ETF Trade: Gold, Palantir, Mag 7 Stocks, Energy and More!
will that translate also into some upside movement in gold miners uh if the physical gold uh Trends higher as well we'll see but you know gold mining stocks a lot of Traders active Traders out there like the trade because of the extreme volatility it has both to the up and down side welcome to the program I'm Thalia Hayden it's so great to have you watching if you are new to ETF Guide TV welcome and be sure to hit that subscribe button and for our longtime viewers welcome back and don't forget to post your thoughts in that comment section below you can also watch our original programs like this one along with ETF battles and the rest of our lineup right here on YouTube along with Apple TV Amazon Fire TV and Roku so don't miss out joining us now is Ed eglinski at direction thank you so much for being here Ed it's great to see you again yeah great to be back all right let's begin with the Trump Administration taking over the White House are there any particular ETF categories that could specifically be at play here well similar to the short-term nature of how you should be looking at our funds for Traders it has been a short time with the Trump Administration being in office but with that said there are a couple of sectors one could possibly look at uh to trade one is certainly the energy sector particularly the energy stocks with the ongoing geopolitical risk the potential additional Russian Iran sanctions who knows what's that's going to do for oil prices and of course the Trump Mantra uh when it comes to energy drill baby drill all of these things combined with the seasonality trade uh with energy uh and the cold weather in the US we're seeing right now uh there's going to be some opportunity both on the Bull and Bear side we have a 2X Bull and Bear on the energy select sector index RX y as well as the S&P oil and gas exploration and production index gush and drip couple of other areas to note uh the tech sector uh you know Trump might undo some of the government regulations that were put on AI um and when you look at the inauguration for example look who was in back of him uh three of the mag seven uh heads of the companies Apple Google and meta uh for those that want to trade the mag7 2x bull uh we have an equal weight mag 7 index 2x bull Q QQ and a non- leverage inverse bear if you want to trade uh the short side QQ QD uh in addition to that a couple other areas to maybe note uh biotech and healthc Care uh some say this Administration might be more Pro business maybe more m&a activity when it comes to biotech and the flip side uh the naysayers some that might be be a short term uh if Kennedy becomes the health secretary what the impact on vaccines and big Pharma could be so we have a number of ways you can trade that a 3X bull uh Appley the symbol cure and then for biotech a lot of people are familiar with short-term trading on our S&P biotech index triple everage Bull and Bear lab U lab d as well uh the financial is another area you could talk about deregulation uh how that's going to impact the big Banks uh we have the triple average Bull and Bear on the financial select sector index along with triple leverage bill on the regional Banks so a lot of exciting ways you could trade uh the different sectors regardless of your opinion on a short-term basis artificial intelligence also known as AI is projected to experience significant growth in the coming years by 2030 the global AI Market size is projected to surpass $2.5 trillion dollar so what are some ways ETF investors and Traders can participate in this AI boom well you always want to look at the companies that can capitalize on the AI craze through Revenue growth so maybe the best way to play it from a short-term trading perspective would be a basket of stocks that give you exposure to AI uh we track The Selective Ai and US Big Data index uh we have a 2X Bull and Bear uh Appley symbol aibu for the bull aibd for the bear uh just today uh Trump announced uh more AI infrastructure investments in the US so you may want to look at some single stock names that are prominent in the AI space whether that's paler Nvidia broadcom Taiwan SE semiconductor these are all leverage and inverse single stocks we'll talk about that in a minute that you could trade on an individual basis whether bull or bear one of the things I'll mention about uh palen here for example which has been in the news a lot uh it's coming off a 300% plush year last year uh lofty valuations at this point though for those of you who look at uh multiples trading right around I think uh 200 uh so high expectations some people on a short-term basis may look at a bear on paler we have an inverse 1X bear for those that think the momentum continue on a short-term basis we have a 2X Bull on paler pltu got it and you just mentioned this ad leveraged an inverse single stock ETFs they're booming and Direction recently expanded its Suite of single stock ETFs with four more pairs this time linked to birkshire Hathaway and Palante tier Technologies as you mentioned can you tell us more about that yeah sure I mean when we look for these leverage inverse single stock ETFs it's a franchise that's been around for a couple of years we feel we're the leader in the leverage and inverse ETF space we've been doing this since 2008 uh as you mentioned we have 13 pairs with over six billion in assets to it uh Palante here and Burkshire are just the latest two examples of looking for leverage and inverse single stocks that are widely traded and have a lot of headlines associated with it so Traders could trade off of that in the case of birkar uh people think that that consistent return can continue want to Leverage The Bull side on a short-term basis but also you have some naysayers that Burk sheer uh the change in management who knows what's going to happen in the long term uh some people might want to hedge their gains in birkar as a result of that we have an inverse bear that you can play on that as well got it now Switching gears a bit the US Federal Reserve keeping interest rates too high for too long is a potential risk that some economists have noted so how is this impacting treasury ETFs and what trends in the bond market are you observing well it's in interesting uh inflation's still persistent job market is still resilient uh you don't know what the new administration's going to bring in terms of tariffs and the potential impact that it have on inflation uh the last fed minutes touched on that uh the FED is signaling maybe less rate Cuts this year than they anticipated um bonds this year when you look at TLT for example are are down a little bit in terms of rates Rising uh you know the FED may not decide to cut rates this year some are predicting uh only two rate cuts down from four uh the fed's always going to be data dependent so last week for example uh some of the inflation news on the CPI and PPI were a little more muted uh regardless we've seen some real active trading uh in our 3x bull 20 plus year treasury so 3x Bull on the TLT uh looking for rates to go down we continue to see that uh translate with our TMF we also have the flip side the triple leverage inverse bear if you think rates are going up TMV and then the 7 to 10e Treasury you know the 10e got to 480 it's dropping back down now for those that want to play uh the Bull and Bear 3x Bull and Bear on the 7 to 10 year off Ife uh we have options for them as well and add one last thing before you take off with gold rallying and continuing to trade near all-time highs how are some ETF Traders taking advantage of the price action within gold mining stocks well there is a differentiation between gold mining stocks and the physical commodity itself uh gold mining stocks tend to have a higher beter associated with it than the physical gold itself uh just to give you an example sometimes of the Divergence in performance 2024 was a much stronger year for the physical commodity gold than gold mining stocks or Junior Gold Miners this year at least in January the reverse has taking place uh gold the physical commodity is up only half of what the mining stocks are so for those that want to trade gold mining stocks on a short-term basis we have a 2X Bull and Bear both on the gold miners and Junior Gold Miners uh based off of uh the GDX gdxj those benchmarks that those two non- leverage ETFs track um gold will be interesting this year uh there's a lot of geopolitical risk uh a lot of uh Global conflicts uh will that translate also into some upside movement in gold miners uh if the physical gold uh ends higher as well we'll see but you know gold mining stocks a lot of Traders active Traders out there like the trade because of the extreme volatility has both to the up and downside anded as always thank you so much for your timely insights and we will definitely see you soon right thanks for having me yes definitely look forward to it and be sure to visit direction.com to learn more about Direction ZF lineup news updates and education for Traders I'm Thalia Hayden thanks so much for watching and we'll see you next time
