But studies of horse race gamblers and day traders have shown that when people are losing money, they tend to embrace risk instead of avoiding it.
Perhaps by avoiding risk we can live to see ninety.
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The advantage of diversification is still achieved, and a two-to-one leveraged ETF will double the performance of the index while still avoiding the risk in the individual stocks.
One big reason:ESPN owns the games outright, paying nothing for TVrights, sidestepping bidding wars and avoiding any risk of losing a franchise it created to a rival channel.
Indexes offer the retirement investor a decent shot at avoiding concentration risk thus diminishing emotional attachment by owning hundreds or even thousands of companies at once.
That means avoiding the risk of feeding the junta's paranoia.
This attitude toward struggle is not only counterproductive -- leading to self-defeating behaviors including retreating inward with self-doubt and avoiding necessary risk for fear of failure -- it is also wrong.
Although it has integrated the product into its Outlook.com web email service, it will continue to offer Skype as a separate installable application on its new system, avoiding the risk of anti-competition complaints.
While there are other factors investors should consider in purchasing individual bonds, retirees and new bond investors interested in researching investment options that may add more income to their portfolio while avoiding the risk of bonds funds and restrictive annuities, may want to investigate corporate bonds.
These securities are held in a separately managed account and utilize liquid ETFs and exchange traded options, avoiding bank credit risk.
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By doing this, I will sometimes miss the trade altogether, but avoiding high-risk or impulsive trades can really make a difference in your bottom line.
Most mutual fund shareholders, for instance, are still avoiding any high-risk investments in their mutual fund portfolios.
The promotion focus on potential gain leads to speed, creativity, innovation, and embracing risk, while the prevention focus on avoiding loss leads to accuracy, careful deliberation, thoroughness, and a strong preference for the devil-you-know.
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Some users value avoiding offence more highly than the risk of censorship.
Its refusal to risk any casualties on its own side by avoiding lower-level (and thus more accurate) bombing raids has led, by its own admission, to civilian casualties.
Therefore, at least one-third of investing risk, and probably more, can be eliminated by avoiding individual stocks altogether and simply investing in sector or market indexes via index mutual funds and ETFs.
McCain, who spent five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam after his Navy plane was shot down, hinted that Bush might be avoiding the specter of putting more American lives at risk.
Although the company is (arguably) priced for perfection as seen by its price-to-earnings ratio of 200, Amazon continues to remind investors with its execution and new 52-week highs that avoiding the stock at any level presents the greater risk.
He took no avoiding action as there was no time but assessed the risk of collision as being high, said the report.
In the meantime, there is a risk that the Berlusconi government's knife could follow the line of least resistance, avoiding any cuts that would hurt the powerful vested interests that seek to block any attempt at reform in Italy.
Instead of avoiding the growth of artificial intelligence, the Singularity Institute is trying to manage the risk.
In addition, you should consider avoiding plaintext-password network services: The POP3, FTP, and Telnet daemons pose a special risk because their passwords pass unencrypted across the open network, sniffable by any nearby machine along the way.
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