Inverse Cramer

Pretty obvious Cramer is nothing more than a puppet paid to pump up and short stocks. He reminds me of montley fool website that pumps stocks at their highs for retail to buy only for the stock tank 3 months later.

Yeah, but last time I checked, Dave del Dotto was still pretty rich too - an 80s era crook, but still rich (now owns multiple vineyards in the Napa Valley). Gotta be careful confusing wealth with wisdom. Cramer is what he is. Like you initially said, he’s an entertainer. Take him at face value and it’s all good. Personally, I find him to be hella annoying though. People who gamify investing generally annoy me.

I feel like Cramer is a guy who makes like 300 calls a week, many contradictory, so there's always a high volume stream of calls he "gets wrong" because he seemingly takes both sides of every ticker.


too lazy to look, and maybe it has done better lately, but earlier this year the inverse cramer ETF was underperforming SPY.

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too lazy to look, and maybe it has done better lately, but earlier this year the inverse cramer ETF was underperforming SPY.

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I was curious how the ETF worked, so I did a quick read. Looks like it also employs short positions in the actively managed fund, whereas Cramer is long-only. In this year’s market rally, his winners produced some kind of profit (even if they might be sub-S&P), but the ETF has solid red in those trades. When Cramer yells “sell, sell, sell”, he’s not going short. So he’s not at risk the way the ETF is when he yells “buy, buy, buy” and they necessarily go short.

The inverse Cramer ETF is interesting, but by the Sharpe ratio of -0.21, I’d say that including a short strategy contributes to its failure to beat the risk-free rate of return.

Does that make any sense?

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I feel like Cramer is a guy who makes like 300 calls a week, many contradictory, so there's always a high volume stream of calls he "gets wrong" because he seemingly takes both sides of every ticker.

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Here is a thought when he makes a prediction too many people jump in and the stock over reacts causing it do the inverse of what he predicted.