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[Gravelwing]

I actually do. As I said I already invest with the other firm and I ran into this thread about trade.com for a particular reason.
I want to diversify not only by the assets in my portfolio, but also by funds managers. And I think of portfolio management here. Undecided yet, though.

 

[Landa]

I need to add smth about the fairness of taking managemtn fees having no profit at all. Of course the market hasn't seen a long-term significant recession for a long while already, so that is not a big concern amoong people new to the markets and investments. Yet. When the trend is down, when recession comes, the primary task of moderate-to-conservative investment models is not to lose as much as the stock market loses at times like that.

 

[Gravelwing]

True. I didn't really think much about it, but I realized now. People on the forums often say - why invest in portfolios, just buy the index ETF and sleep well. LOL. Index ETF can lose 50% in a few months. That's smth that had already happened before.
Losing 1-3% of the capital is much better than losing 10-30% of the capital or even more. Don't you think? And this is what's management fee is need for. Diversification and rebalancing of the portfolio takes time, takes skills and takes efforts.

 

[Landa]

Algo systems can also do well on downtrends so that's also another option to consider. I actually like moderately agressive systems that work well in all market conditions historically.

 

[Gravelwing]

Not my cup of coffee, as I prefer good old diversified long-onlies. Yet, I respect the opinion. I know people that earn with agressive alsgostrategies.

 

[2iquelo]

I believe that the technical analysis can also be good and old. There's no need to invent the bicyle. The old ones cycle pretty well LOL

 

[Spellweaver]

Why even try to compare the uncompareble, People that invest and people that daytrade using the technicals are all deifferent people and they have COMPLETELY different goals.

 

[Gravelwing]

Absolutely! Yet I see that this thread has gathered all kinds of traders and inestors. I guess that's happened because trade.com offers active CFD trading, DMA accounts and portfolio management as well. So we all have to get along somehow. The question is whether its a good time to invest or not? Speaking of daytrading the time does not matter, yet with portfolio management, that's better to choose the timing carefully.

 

[2iquelo]

I've heard investors say that any time is a good time to invest. I diasgree.
Technically the trend is up, but American index is struggling to make each new high. It's an obvious sign of weakness. IMO a significant retracement is near.

 

[Spellweaver]

The market is making a new high every again and again. This is called an uptrend. What kind of shorting are you guys speaking about at the moment?