Comments on: The Only Time to Hope the Market is Rising Is When You Are Selling http://www.thedividendguyblog.com/the-only-time-to-hope-the-market-is-rising-is-when-you-are-selling/ One Guy's Journey to Passive Income Through Dividend Investing Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:02:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: baselle http://www.thedividendguyblog.com/the-only-time-to-hope-the-market-is-rising-is-when-you-are-selling/comment-page-1/#comment-1381 baselle Sun, 30 Jul 2006 06:36:10 +0000 http://www.thedividendguyblog.com/?p=142#comment-1381 I don't understand shorting. Yet. That's the main reason I don't do the half long, half short. It sounds like re-balancing the longs and the shorts is an interesting experience, too. I don’t understand shorting. Yet. That’s the main reason I don’t do the half long, half short. It sounds like re-balancing the longs and the shorts is an interesting experience, too.

]]> By: Marc Mayor http://www.thedividendguyblog.com/the-only-time-to-hope-the-market-is-rising-is-when-you-are-selling/comment-page-1/#comment-1166 Marc Mayor Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:14:21 +0000 http://www.thedividendguyblog.com/?p=142#comment-1166 To me, this also sounds like the kind of things people say to reassure themselves. An analogy would be the guy who jumped from the tenth floor and says, as he passes the second floor on the way down, "so far, so good!". I don't mean to insult. You seem very happy with your approach so you shouldn't change a thing. I mean that more for readers who are not 100% sure what to do. I took a different road by investing in a neutral manner, half long, half short, so as to have very little volatility but still double-digit annual performance. I just find it amazing how few people do that, given how successful it is. Enough said, let's make money! To me, this also sounds like the kind of things people say to reassure themselves. An analogy would be the guy who jumped from the tenth floor and says, as he passes the second floor on the way down, “so far, so good!”.

I don’t mean to insult. You seem very happy with your approach so you shouldn’t change a thing. I mean that more for readers who are not 100% sure what to do.

I took a different road by investing in a neutral manner, half long, half short, so as to have very little volatility but still double-digit annual performance. I just find it amazing how few people do that, given how successful it is.

Enough said, let’s make money!

]]> By: baselle http://www.thedividendguyblog.com/the-only-time-to-hope-the-market-is-rising-is-when-you-are-selling/comment-page-1/#comment-1098 baselle Wed, 28 Jun 2006 06:11:54 +0000 http://www.thedividendguyblog.com/?p=142#comment-1098 Mine was something that the late Louis Rukeyser said: If your favorite fruit was a melon, and you found out melons were going on sale, you'd be pretty happy, wouldn't you? And you'd buy some more. Why do people think that stocks are any different? Mine was something that the late Louis Rukeyser said:

If your favorite fruit was a melon, and you found out melons were going on sale, you’d be pretty happy, wouldn’t you? And you’d buy some more. Why do people think that stocks are any different?

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