This afternoon, the SPDR S&P 500 Index ETF (NYSE:SPY) traded as low as $110.16 a share. The August 9, 2011 low was at $110.27 a share. Often stocks will go back and test a level where the stock once traded, therefore, it is not surprising to see that August low get tested today. The declines in the market come as the financial stocks decline sharply lower.

In a week where I had already been calling GS "Goldman-Madoff" and I had predicted on Wednesday that the rally would last "until they start arresting people" and we featured the above video on Thursday afternoon to illustrate what a crooked scam the financial marketplace had become that it finally hit the fan on Friday morning when even the WSJ could no longer ignore the evidence that myself and a

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After reading a lot of blog posts, tweets on twitter, Facebook comments, and emails, I decided it was time to figure out the real decay behind the leveraged ETF's, both long and short. As I wrote about this in one of my previous blog posts, I wanted to revisit this issue of the double and triple leveraged ETF's, and why investor's should stay away from them, and to clear up some confusion.