Research Paper from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: A, New York University - Leonard N. Stern - School of business, course: Finance, language: English, abstract: Suppose you believe the market is going to go down, what would you do?The normal answer is: sell what you have and get out.However, what if you have nothing to sell?Until a couple of years ago, the answer would have been "Stay on the sidelines" for simple investors.The sophisticated and the professionals always had plenty of avenues:.Shorting the stock.Buying put options.Selling naked calls, etc.The gap was narrowed with the arrival of leveraged and inverse ETFs that allow even novice investors to short the market in a less risky way.