Take control of your IRA and Roth IRA – do not let collapsing stock market take your dream retirement from you
Fred Day
Jun. 24, 2007

Your retirement funds are in trouble if they are invested in the stock market. The baby boomers helped the stock market to climb to heights never thought before. Think about the Dow Jones industrial Average in 1000 level twenty-five years back in early 1980s. The stock market has taken a long journey upwards. But fundamentals, sentiment, and the technical patterns point to long-term top. A steep downward slide can make Dow end the year close to 11,000. That is steep 20% drop in six months or less. The problem is that if Dow closes with a loss, analytics point to severe drop in the following years.

What can you do to earn handsome returns for your retirement funds if you decide to say good-bye to the stock market? The answer lies in commodity futures market. You can still stock index futures. The advantage of commodity futures is that you can go long or short. But most importantly, you can very effectively hedge your portfolio with options and derivatives.

In the stock market you have to have a large account to be able to write options. In futures market you can write options with little margin requirements. If you effectively hedge your positions, manage your money by never investing or risking more than 20% of your capital, you can earn nice profit well beyond the stock market’s dream with very little risk.

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