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To: Steve Felix who wrote (3957)	3/1/2010 5:06:01 PM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34328

"That works both ways, and then you have high fees to contend with. Imho, you need to be quite the market timer to make any money on these. Maybe you will share with us when you move in and when you move out." Indeed it does work both ways. My philosophy is too move in to them when the market has recovered (like now) and then forget about them. If there is a crash you will wake up and wonder why your portfolio hasn't lost money and then you'll remember why. One shouldn't buy them, IMHO, to try to time short swings or make money in the short run. It's portfolio insurance you hope you don't have to collect because if you do the rest of the financial landscape is miserable.