Wanna Bet On Retail Stores Before They Vanish?

There's no denying that traditional retailers are in trouble. Fortunately for stock investors, it just got even easier to bet on their demise. ProShares, a provider of exchange-traded funds, just unveiled the Decline of the Retail Store ETF. a product designed to return the inverse of a brick-and-mortar store index. In other words, the price of the fund will rise when the underlying gauge falls. This allows investors to make a short wager of sorts on the entire industry by simply buying the ETF.