What are your favorite low risk strategies to use?

[ironchef]

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Exactly;
so i sometimes buy + sell trendy +volume ETFs
.Some times buy + sell money market.........................................................

Sounds easy but there is real wisdom in your short remarks.

 

[doubledoubledoublecup]

Buy bond receive coupon, thats the lowest it can get. Otherwise big reward aways comes with big risk. Low risk Big reward is a lie.

 

[murray t turtle]

Sounds easy but there is real wisdom in your short remarks.

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I stayed shortly @ metals dealer today;
his track ho was building a big mountain of metals\ + subtraction or inversing some shorter piles LOL.......................................................................................................
I should write it down exactly what they call short iron\ does average shorter\ that a longer auto body size

 

[ironchef]

Buy bond receive coupon, thats the lowest it can get. Otherwise big reward aways comes with big risk. Low risk Big reward is a lie.

There is a difference between volatility and risk. When Wall Streets talk risk, they usually mean volatility.

Bond has relatively low volatility but is risky, you have inflation risk, you have exit risk and even for Treasury, there may be default risk if national debt spirals out of control.

 

[ironchef]

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I stayed shortly @ metals dealer today;
his track ho was building a big mountain of metals\ + subtraction or inversing some shorter piles LOL.......................................................................................................
I should write it down exactly what they call short iron\ does average shorter\ that a longer auto body size

If you long iron, do you use your F150 or rent a semi?

 

[murray t turtle]

If you long iron, do you use your F150 or rent a semi?

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LOL;
not a semi. My favorites include copper/ yellow brass, brass shells stainless steel + most any metal.
Red brass has so much copper in it , haven't gotten much of that.
Those metals dealer I sell to/ have or lease a fleet of those big trucks+ many of them millionaires.
Its low risk business because even steel or iron , worst case does a slow rust;
unless we use WD40 or for cooking pots an edible material LOL
[Edit= I have a good Andrew Carnegie youngster book with pictures]

 

[Ethan.ishere]

Hedging pairs for me.

 

[wxytrader]

I was being facetious, sorry. What you suggest was what William O'Neil promoted and is more difficult to succeed at than it might seem to a neophyte.

Glad to see somebody knows the difference between sarcastic and facetious.

 

[murray t turtle]

I was being facetious, sorry. What you suggest was what William O'Neil promoted and is more difficult to succeed at than it might seem to a neophyte.

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TRUE;
with HI % single stocks which is a key on that.
BUT even a 200dma helps alot/
ETFs like SPY.
BY the way/ IBD/Investors Business Daily/ INVESTORS Business WeeklyNew Nature /NEVER was buy @ bottom + sell + top.
Really/ buy higher + sell higher top trenders like 85 EPS or better + BIG Difference.
AND really much more to that; I seldom do single stocks.
May do some more but more SPXL,SPY/QLD QQQ/2024 ;
some QID spxs, not much =tricky trades