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Retired Army Colonel. I have been following the stock market since I was kid, and have been an investor since 1970. I am the founding past president of our local investment club, which has been in existence for six years, and am currently its treasurer. I take both a short and long term view of stocks. A lot depends on what is happening with the market. I am not a traditional buy and hold investor. I am 60, and along with my wife, have been retired since I was 49. Most investors would advise me to have our money in either bonds (Treasuries) or utilities. Well, we have some corporate and government bonds, and one very go-go utility, but mostly we invest in stocks. Being retired, and thanks to the Internet, we spend a lot of time every day studying markets and our stock holdings, as well as other prospects. We take profits and we take losses early. I love no stock, and don't have any favorite companies, although there are some companies we buy and sell, and buy and sell as the trend up and down. So, we are used to a lot of risk, but the most risk we ever took was having our money in mutual funds. After the losses immediately after 9/11 we vowed never to have money in anything that wasn't immediately liquid. We watch the gold market, and on occasion we purchase gold etf's though we have no gold holdings right now. We have tried the options futures market and decided it is not for us. We are most influenced by IBD and our own analysis using either Yahoo or Etrade's web site.
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