I'm just a retired retail investor/trader who has acquired enough to provide for my remaining days (2008-2009 put me over the top). Making BIG money is no longer my goal. Keeping it is the priority. So I "play not to lose", trying to make "some" while "hedging every which way". As long as I pay my bills and I'm worth at least a $1 more than I was a year ago, I'm happy. So in that vein, scaling in and out works for me. I'll take the singles and let the big boys hit the home runs and deal with the strike outs.
That's a great lesson. I imagine most ETers don't "hold themselves accountable"... mostly because they can get away with it.
Used to be, they did. Now some may opt for more risk or just accept what they can get from bonds with their perceived capital risk.
Preferred stocks provide a much better yield but given that they've run up about 15% since last December's low, it's hard to find many of investment grade that are trading below par... or slightly above with a good call date.
%% 100%% sure i would rather have some profits-than none. By the way i seldom use 100% sure in a stock market context.LOL I also agree with IB founder, bit coin has no fundamental value, but i will stop spelling it bit con. and ''never use an ordinary investment vehicle[ {he is on a horse, in an older data ad.......}
What happened to this poster? Why does he not post here in ET anymore? I have reviewed his posts and this poster had a lot of good things to share. ES