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How to protect your fund when market down?

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Usually when stock rally, those who bought at low or almost bottom low would feel very happy as they realized now the asset become more in terms of value. But the only worry is how to protect those fund from being hint by sudden market down turn? There are many strategy can be used, one of them is switch the fund to some other asset type which could provide some protection against market down turn. For instant, say initially one have investment portfolio of 100K and he started to buy at some where near the market bottom. (Though we may not know exactly the market bottom, but with certain tools or chart, we can catch some good fish in the calm water near the bottom) Since we have caught the fish near the bottom, usually market will start to move up in next few months. We will notice our portfolio value increase with paper gain, say 130K or 150K.... Since now market already up for 2 or 3 months, we may want to think of the way to protect our fund from sudden market swift down. In the sa

How to earn money when Dow made new record?

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Many readers would like to ask, is now a start of bull market or a bear market rally? They want to know, what to do now. To answer the question, first we need to find out what's our opinion with current market stage, be it bear or bull? From the news paper, many expert pointed out that the current market up trend is a bear market rally and advised investor be more careful. If we think this is a bear market rally or a false bull, the we will sell and stay away form the market. The question, is now consider bull market or not? To a serious investor, the answer to this question worth million dollar. To enter the market at a small bull and sell when bull turn mature, it's very easy to double your asset. If one invest 500 thousand and double or triple the money in next 2 or 3 months, he can become a millionaire, hence we say this is million dollar worth answer to the question. Still remember on Oct 2008, when Dow continuously down for 7 days and make us confirm the forming of bear