Ed Egilinsky, managing director, head of sales and distribution and alternatives at Direxion, offers some advice to investors on how to position their portfolio for retail earnings. 

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Trader Nation: How to Position Your Portfolio for Retail Earnings 

Thank you Baker in our next segment. Trader Nation brought to you by direction, ETF S. We explore how investors and traders can position their portfolios for the future with directions expanded suite of ETF S a big week for retail Home Depot target TJ X companies, Walmart. These are just some of the big companies reporting earnings this week. So what your traders be keeping a close eye on during this very busy week? Well, joining us now to discuss is Ed Lin, managing director, head of sales and distribution and alternatives at direction, Ed. Good morning. Welcome. Thanks for having me back. Good morning. We're excited to have you. So how are traders positioning themselves with a large segment of the retailers that of course, are reporting earnings this week? Well, we had retail sales the other day and, and uh although it showed uh growth, it it still was lower than expectations. Uh You had target this morning. Uh So from a short term trading perspective with Walmart's earnings coming tomorrow, uh we're seeing a lot of traders trade, our triple leverage uh retail select sector index. Uh The ETF is R E T L and that encompasses a number of the names you just mentioned at the beginning of the segment. Um and from the home building perspective, uh we have now seen uh a little bit of trading in our triple leverage Dow Jones us Home Construction Index, uh Nail N A I L aptly named for those that uh want to trade on the rebound of what we saw with Home Depot at the beginning of the week. Uh the home builders suppliers uh that was not a great report. Uh But we're seeing a lot of interest in terms of uh maybe Home Depot and those stocks within it from the home building perspective, starting to tick again up. So with a handful of mega cat names, accounting for the majority of index returns of this year. How can traders navigate through this? Well, yeah, I mean, the majority of the gains in the S and P and NASDAQ have been through uh those mega cap particularly tech names. Uh If you still want to ride that trend from a short term trading perspective, we have F N G G which is the uh Fang plus the way to participate in those names on the bull side two X. Uh We also have uh a triple leverage uh bull on the tech sector, the S and P select tech sector that's tech. Um And also uh when you look at it, uh you could trade the semiconductors, maybe we're seeing a lot of interest in S O XL on the bull side, uh on the bear side, if you want to counter trend, some of those moves, uh we have the short side uh of those respective trades as well. And for those that want to trade the single stocks, we have a number of mega cap single stocks that you could trade 1.5. Uh And if you want to short non leverage inverse on the bear side, amongst the most popular is Tesla T S L L on the bull side, T S L s on the bear side, Tesla, of course, always uh polarizing stock. Uh They had their investor day yesterday. So let's switch gears to gold with the announcement of Newmont mining buying New Crest. How might this impact border our gold mining stocks? Well, it's the, it's the largest potential uh merger uh in the history of the gold mining stocks. Uh You would think that this could help stimulate more activity within the gold mining uh sector, whether it's the broader gold mining stocks or the smaller cap junior gold miners. So we have, we have a lot of traders trading both sides of that trade, uh nugget and dust, which is our two X Bull and Bear gold miners and on the junior gold miners, uh we have uh J and which is two X as well. And let's talk about the ongoing saga with the debt ceiling. How do you think it will potentially impact trading areas like treasuries and financials. I think Elmo might have a better uh clarity on that than some of the people out there. But I'm not gonna go there. But in any event, uh you know, we we're seeing trading on both sides of the Treasury trade yields have started to rise this month. So certainly our triple leverage 20 plus year Treasury T M V is starting to take uh some more interest. Uh But we've also seen a lot of flows on the bull side looking for rates to go down on the 20 plus year Treasury to ATM F. Uh We also have the shorter end of the curve, the 7 to 10 year that people can play in both directions, triple leverage. So again, I want to emphasize, you vote all uh for short term active trading. Um and then of course, you can help when you're talking the debt ceiling to somehow segue with the financials as well, especially the regional bank banks. They're, they're taking it on the chin again this month, we have a lot of short term traders that are trying to catch that reversal. Uh when and if it happens uh through our triple leverage regional bank bull D PST uh and our flagship of the broader financials which haven't pulled back as much uh because they also encompass the big banks and insurance companies. And that's FA S fa Z Ed. Can you share some strategies that one can employ if they choose to get defensive, at least in this market. Well, definitely for the short term traders, uh we have a number of bare options uh on the broader us equity markets. We have S P X s which is uh triple leverage short on the S and P 500 the Russell 2000, which is really lagged this year. Uh For short term traders, we have the inverse of the Russell 2000 T Z A. Um um you know, China's lagged a bit. Uh So we do have a triple leverage on the uh uh the China uh 50 index uh which is Yang um and also on the emerging markets, E D Z on the MS C I emerging markets, triple leverage again, uh for those individuals that don't want to do leverage and inverse and they're not looking at things on a short term basis. Uh We have a broad commodity uh strategy called com. Uh It's tactical in nature, it's rules based. So if you want broad commodity exposure, but don't necessarily want to be exposed to all the commodities uh at a given time. Uh Right now, we're out of energies, for example, based on price trends. So C O M for somebody that's looking more for longer term diversification, that might be an option for them. Thank you so much for coming on this morning and giving us so much information. Ed Eins, manages director head of sales and distribution and alternatives at direction. Great context there. Thank you so much. 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