"What Mr. Manley proposes is another of the tactics that make option trading so interesting and rewarding. I have a postion on EWZ that is similarly hedged but with "out of the money puts" and "out of the money calls" a totally…"
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Skot Kortje replied to Ted's discussion Decisions in the group Conservative investors"Too bad about your opinion of the Bernstein book. It is generally regarded as a great book. But, such as it is, your post comes at a sad moment, I guess, since I learned that Peter Bernstein died recently at the ripe old age of 90. An obituary in…"
Head hunter replied to Ted's discussion Decisions in the group Conservative investors"I have read Mr. Bernstein's book 1 1/2 news and mostly was left confused with the never ending detail. I have found it most effective to hedge most everything. To date it has proven an efficient and relatively simple expedient methodology…"
Skot Kortje replied to Ted's discussion Decisions in the group Conservative investors"Thanks for the recommendation, Ted. Will pick it up. I have read books by Nassim Taleb (The Black Swan) and Peter Bernstein (Against the Gods), among others, and found them most enlightening from a trading and investment perspective. Seems…"
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I am reading Jonah Lehrer's book called "How we Decide".Third chapter has an interesting discussion on loss aversion and stocks. picking. He says the only people "who are immune to this mistake are neurologically impaired patients who can't feel any emotion at all" . Great read for seeing how we invest and why we do what we do as investors.
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