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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Investment Strategies / Mechanical Investing
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Author: mungofitch 🐝🐝🐝 GOLD
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Subject: Re: Timing indicators
Date: 04/16/25 11:28 AM
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I believe you'd want to wait for 1) a relatively calm market day, and 2) where IWM is in the green that day.

Sounds good.
I wonder when we'll see a calm day again? : )

I got a terrible entry on mine, but I was switching from different puts and I got good prices for those, so I tell myself (without much concrete evidence yet) that the two cancelled out.

I may write some offsetting index puts on the next "hard down" day. e.g., if I think the market is going to drop 35%, I don't need protection below that level, and writing a put that far down will get me some premium to offset the cost of the higher strike puts I bought. This sounds risky...but isn't provided you're always long at least as many of the higher strike ones!

Jim
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