{"id":5215,"date":"2010-12-29T09:08:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T14:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=5215"},"modified":"2010-12-29T09:28:49","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T14:28:49","slug":"markets-are-slow-everyone-is-on-vacation-i-draw-a-semi-blank-this-morning-you-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=5215","title":{"rendered":"Markets are slow. Everyone is on vacation. I draw a semi-blank this morning. You too?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I asked Scott Udine, money manager, what&#8217;s up? He replied,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Just keep reminding everyone to not get complacent. A down move is coming and all must be prepared. No sense in giving back all these nice gains in a quick and sudden sell off. Use stops or hedge your portfolio.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A simple hedge would be to sell the buy the ETF <strong>SH, <\/strong>which is the inverse\/reverse of the S&amp;P 500.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/SHGoesDown.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5224\" title=\"SHGoesDown\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/SHGoesDown.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"646\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/SHGoesDown.jpg 646w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/SHGoesDown-300x132.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Notice how it goes down when the market goes up.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Other than that, please read yesterday&#8217;s column. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=5186\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong>If you get cramps, read the comments. My readers have some great ideas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cheap good, ThinkPad notebooks.<\/strong><\/span> Lenovo has an Outlet store. If you need a Windows laptop, the ThinkPad X201 this is the machine to get. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/outlet.lenovo.com\/catalogsearch\/result\/?q=X201\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><a href=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/HarryNewtonNewShot2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"HarryNewtonNewShot\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/HarryNewtonNewShot2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Harry Newton who didn&#8217;t play tennis or do any exercise (except shoveling snow) for three days. He played tennis for 1 1\/2 hours last night and now feels intelligent, or at least less creaky.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I asked Scott Udine, money manager, what&#8217;s up? He replied, &#8220;Just keep reminding everyone to not get complacent. A down move is coming and all must be prepared. No sense in giving back all these nice gains in a quick and sudden sell off. Use stops or hedge your portfolio.&#8221; A simple hedge would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}