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Strategies & Market Trends : 50% Gains Investing

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To: bruwin who wrote (117838)2/4/2014 11:19:26 PM
From: BiomavenRead Replies (2) of 118717
 
There is no free lunch in investing. Using a stop-loss will, on average, reduce the size of individual losses but also increase the frequency of such losses. If you need to limit risk, in general you are better off changing asset allocations by increasing holdings of less-risk assets than by trying to manage risky investments with techniques such as stop-losses.

My general advice to novice investors is to put their money in a broad-based ETF. For those that insist on trying themselves, my advice is to avoid frequent trading, ignore brokerage reports, and try to focus on some long-term trend - in my experience the market is pretty blind to stuff that happens over anything longer than a couple of years. Right now, cheap natural gas is my key trend and the basis of most of my non-biotech investment strategy.

Peter
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