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Strategies & Market Trends : Option Strategies -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: robert b furman who wrote (2226)	1/22/2021 12:42:59 AM
From: Thehammer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2591

I think we are both long term investors and sometimes it makes a great deal of sense to take some chips off the table. Options for me are a hedge. I try to invest for the long haul but do leave a little bit for speculation. I have had little success trying to time the market. Always good to have some cash on the sidelines for good deals that may pop up. Every once in awhile I will use margin but I keep the overall portfolio risk small (such as less than 5%). I think that I read that margin use is very high and that tends to be prophetic of an impending decline. At this stage, I think increasing the minimum wage is a very bad idea. It tends to hit small business the hardest and many are experiencing (for them ) a recession / depression.