How to allocate 1 MM

[Businessman]

Quote from asap:

heres my allocation:

30% real estate, land
40% government bonds, CD, etc.
10% stock indexes
20% active trading in futures, forex and interest.

my yearly avg return in the last 10 years has been 52% and with a standard deviation of around 20%.

Reduce that 40% down to 30% and put atleast 10% into gold instead.

 

[zf trader]

Check out optioncoach thread on closed end funds

Other ideas:

Basis trading with bonds, buy two year bonds and trade the futures against them.

Currency futures spread trading, around the roll take advantage of the half tick spread to scalp the difference between the months

Basis trading with stocks and SSF or use IB exchange for physicals.

The key to all of these ideas is to use no leverage. All your volatility risk should come from your "trading" . These are ways of employing cash in "synthetic bonds"

 

[asap]

Quote from Businessman:

Reduce that 40% down to 30% and put atleast 10% into gold instead.

that's wild speculation. i dont want to add to my risk, in fact, i am willing to reduce it instead.