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As we’ve seen this week, technology and strategy have combined to give the power of hedge fund managers to self-directed investors. Automated Trading can give investors continual access to the market; trend following offers an easy-to-maintain strategy.

Hedge fund managers, though, have access to so many more markets, right? They can trade more than just stocks and bonds.

Now, thanks to aggressive online brokers who are eager to expand their offerings, individual investors now can trade all types of assets. It’s pretty safe to say that if a hedge fund can trade it, so can you.

This gives you another took of a hedge fund manager: diversification.

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According to Don Dion, writing at the Street.com, Deutsche Bank will close its PowerShares DB Crude Oil Double Long Exchange Traded Note in the face of increased regulation.

Leveraged funds, including ETFs,  are often blamed for increased speculation in the energy market, including the oil market. The Deutsche Bank ETF is dead-center in the target because it’s leveraged and because it’s based on futures.

We talked a little bit about this happening in this post on good and bad speculators.

Leveraged ETFs are risky, but investors are speaking out that this regulation is ill-placed.

For a couple reasons.

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