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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: UncleBigs who wrote (59140)	4/22/2006 3:36:28 PM
From: bond_bubble	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

I'm fixated on shorting the market as the best strategy (financials, I'm planning to buy 2008 put options in q2/q3). I fear that if I buy commodities (I'm confident commodities will last little longer in USD than any other segment), I might get greedy in it and be trapped in it. Ofcourse, buying puts is also a very dumb thing - the counter party might not exist!! I'm not going to put more than 10% of my savings in these gambling however tempting things get. I've put rest of my money in "losing to inflation" T-Bills (very little physical gold at this time). I really hope, something else comes up after the bust - depending on what the Fed and US Govt does. I'll definetely not buy houses if they crash!! I'm hoping someday, Doug Noland or Russ or Buffet will have something good to recommend - until then, I'll keep losing some money to inflation. Safety is the most important thing...The only ones who made good money in 1929 were the shorters (if they did not get caught in the portfolio vanishing) - and everyone else lost principal money...