The largest Casinos / Gaming ETF is the Roundhill Sports Betting & iGaming ETF BETZ with $294.97M in assets. In the last trailing year, the best-performing Casinos / Gaming ETF was BJK at 7.24%.

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When you invest in the stock market, you can bet on both sides of the market using an online broker account. Inverse ETFs (exchange traded funds) are an easy way to place bearish bets without physically shorting shares of stock.

Bottom line, the following ETFs go up in value as the underlying benchmark index they track goes down. See also: List of Long ETFs (Bullish ETFs).

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Know What’s in Your ETF and How the ETF is Calculated

One of the Fast Money guys mentioned the UltraShort Oil & Gas ProShares ETF (DUG) on a recent show. He questioned how that ETF, which is the double inverse of oil & gas could be up for the day while oil was also up. A quick look at what DUG actually is gives the answer:

UltraShort Oil & Gas ProShares seeks daily investment results, before fees and expenses, that correspond to twice (200%) the inverse (opposite) of the daily performance of the Dow Jones U.S. Oil & Gas Index^SM

That “daily” part adds one complication to the picture. From the article ‘Understanding ProShares’ Long-Term Performance’ on ProShares’ site:

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ProShares are designed to provide either 200%, -200% or -100% of index performance on a daily basis (before fees and expenses).

A common misconception is that ProShares should also provide 200%, -200% or -100% of index performance over longer periods, such as a week, month or year. However, ProShares’ returns may be greater than or less than what you’d expect over longer periods.

The article goes on to explain how & why this happens. But the question about how DUG could be up while the price of oil was also up is answered by looking at what comprises DUG — the Dow Jones U.S. Oil & Gas Index. That index “measures the performance of the energy sector of the U.S. equity market. Component companies include oil drilling equipment and services, coal, oil companies-major, oil companies-secondary, pipelines, liquid, solid or gaseous fossil fuel producers and service companies.”

Note that the actual price of oil is not mentioned. When you look at how that index is constructed you’ll see that ExxonMobil Corp. (XOM) makes up 28%, Chevron Corp. is 11% and ConocoPhillips is 7%. So at least 46% of the index is big oil companies (major integrated oil & gas). Then the question is how does the price of oil relate to movements in those oil companies? Or more broadly, how do ETFs compare against the underlying over longer periods of time?

Below I’ve plotted oil ($WTIC) vs. the ETF tracking oil (USO) over the last 10 years.

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This shows that the price of oil has seriously outperformed the ETF, USO. Bottom line, be careful with which ETFs you are holding long. For more on this topic, ETFDB has a good post, 7 Risks of Trading Leveraged ETFs and How to Avoid Them.

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With a helping hand from Macau, the world’s largest gambling hub, the VanEckVectors Gaming ETF (NYSEArca: BJK) is up more than 19% this year and some analysts see more upside coming for gaming stocks.

Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS) and Wynn Resorts (NASDAQ: WYNN) are dominant names in Las Vegas but the companies, two marquee holdings in BJK, are also big players in Macau, levering each to Chinese gambling trends.

“Casino stocks surged Thursday after better-than-expected revenue numbers out of Macau, a special administrative region of China that’s become a gambling mecca. And some strategists say it isn’t time for investors to cash in their chips just yet,” reports CNBC. “Las Vegas Sands is now up 16 percent year to date, MGM Resorts has risen 12 percent and Wynn Resorts has climbed 54 percent. In fact, Wynn is the third-best-performing stock in the S&P 500 this year. On Thursday, Las Vegas Sands saw its biggest rise since the first day of September.”