How do you protect your retirement investments from the financial meltdown that has started?
Susan Hicks
Jun. 26, 2007

The financial meltdown that has started from the real estate and mortgage default problems is not conspicuous. The stealth havoc in financial markets will wipe out several financial services companies, banks, and brokerages. If you are not careful, you can lose a substantial part of your retirement savings, ruining your retirement dreams.

First and foremost you must move your 401(k), Roth and traditional IRAs, and all other similar accumulation out from managed environment to self-directed environments that allow investment in real estate, stocks, bonds, gold, and commodities. You should be able to trade futures, options, derivates, and swaps. You should be able to write covered calls and puts.

Hedged portfolios are the only way you can protect yourself from the financial meltdown. Most of these money managers never saw real bear markets. They will cause devastations in retirement portfolios.

The complacency in the market is typical of 80-year cycles, when stock markets crash and banks go belly up. It is the time for conservative money management. The volatility will rise exponentially as markets trend downwards very slowly. The only way to make money is to write options that have few risks.

Futures options allow you the risk management, and opportunity to gain enormously through hedging.

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