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

To: Vol who wrote (24)	9/8/1998 1:14:00 PM
From: Laird Durham	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29

I haven't yet been able to find any good hedge strategies which work well for me, which says more about me than about hedge strategies. The problem with using value line or Zacks or Trendvest is that they are incredibly boring, and demand sticking to them even when you think they aren't working. It is hard to find good shorts. When a stock takes a big tumble, or a class of stocks, it is often over a short time period. By the time you identify it, or a rating service does, it often is too late. The most you can make on a short (other than a put) is to double your money if the stock goes to zero. The potential on longs is much greater. Shorting is a market timing activity, which recalls to me that "all horse players must die broke."