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To: JC Jaros who wrote (25868)	1/6/2000 4:52:00 PM
From: cfimx	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

u mean like when you added T to the JC "trust fund." <g>

To: JC Jaros who wrote (25868)	1/6/2000 6:22:00 PM
From: fuzzymath	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

JC, short-term trading is not something I'd recommend to anyone, really. All I'm saying is that there are inefficiencies that can be turned into either greater profit at the same risk or similar profit at reduced risk. There are many big players in the market who do this, including one I read about in the WSJ a few years ago that trades 4% of the daily market volume using mathematical methods, yet none of us will have ever heard of their name. Trading the way I do certainly can't be called fun. Making a decision on a daily basis on whether to stay in or duck out... But, it's building our savings faster than any other way I can think of, at very little risk (although I have models that use leverage, I never do so in my own trading). If you wanted to lower your risk without having to buy and sell stocks, my techniques could still apply -- you'd buy market index puts for the dangerous days, to cushion your investments against a market fall, then sell them when the market looked safe again. But again it would be lots of short-term trades, which wouldn't be fun. Kevin