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To: dara who wrote (201717)	7/29/2011 12:15:44 AM
From: Veteran98	1 Recommendation Respond to of 312826

YUP... I'm Anal no doubt about it .... the market is constantly changing and you can't always win by sticking to the same strategy or the same sector... Right now buy and hold is dead.... I'm basically a buy and hold guy and suck as a trader but I am finding I'm trading my way out of this lousy market we are in ... There are a ton of stocks just like YRI that go up and down in almost predictable patterns .... Quit my job 6 years ago when I was 51 so despite enduring some of the toughest markets I've ever seen I'm still surviving but it has meant changing my strategy and right now it's trading the swings up and down .. Also the knife catches lately have been extremely profitable as stocks releasing even remotely bad news get killed way more than the news justifies... can't always catch the bottom but averaging down after the intiial entry has in almost every case ended up being a profitable strategy....