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Strategies & Market Trends : Quarter to Quarter Aggressive Growth Stocks
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From: Jack Hartmann12/28/2009 4:30:28 PM
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If you've done well? Pat yourself on the back. If not? Here is something that you may not know. And it my provide, at least, a little solace:

<In nearly 200 years of recorded stock-market history, no calendar decade has seen such a dismal performance as the 2000s.>

finance.yahoo.com

I think there is a small handful of investors who survived the decade intact. So many of my friends did not make it. Every pundit missed either a collapse or a big rise. No one mastered every move.

10 Lessons of the decade
- Diversify
- Set stops
- Take some profit if the stock is going parabolic. Like GE and C doubling in a month or two this year.
- Turn off CNBC
- Chartists were wrong in many cases
- Cash is good thing for a company to have
- Insider buys was a reliable indicator overall
- Wall Street is the only market where people run out of the store when there is a sale.
- Analysts and Stock /upgrade/downgrade rating firms are just throwing darts for the most part.
- Proportional risk core trading is the best method. I.e, don't let any one individual stock be a large portion (+5%) of your portfoilio that a black swan even costs you your retirement or lifestyle change. Any stock can go down 95% if the right circumstances happen (EMC, JDSU, BAC, C, F, etc...). Hopefully you will sell before the maximum losses occur.
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