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Re: Optimal trailing stop percentage
Hi Al,
The only way to preserve ones capital from devastation is to not risk the capital at all. There are lots of speculative reasons why your friends seem to intuitively buy stocks guided by some fundamental analysis.
The primary reason they buy is that they have a pre-conceived idea that the fundamentals provided by the company or outsiders is adequate enough information for the market place to see that the value of the stock is not sufficient and that it should be priced higher. However, because of supply and demand in the market place, usually when the price of a stock starts to decline, its a good indication of there being more supply available for sale than there is demand.
Probably one of the more conservative ways for your friends to preserve their capital is to use a diversified portfolio approach that minimizes the overall risk of total lose. Another approach might be to consider buying the S&P500 index spiders (SPY). This has shown great returns over a substantially long period of time for constant returns.
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