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`lag

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Just been one of my rules never to do that...


... for the simple reason I'm no better than anyone else in timing the market but I was thinking more in terms of buying on margin. I'm a pretty risk-neutral person.

I suppose over the long term you could argue the stock market does better than interest rates so in THEORY you should do better and also guessing that 10k is "extra" money, if you loose it, you'll live.

"Well, chosen stocks"? Are you sure? you've thought though it three times? A trade war won't affect things? What if oil prices go up? go down? Hey, if you've done due diligence go for it.

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Posted: 12/13/2018 at 07:00AM


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