Chapter 8 Putting Together Your Winning Investment Portfolio

The First Step: Diversification

Increasing return while reducing risk has been the emphasis of previous chapters. The strategies have demonstrated that you can profit by timing your entries and exits so that your largest positions are taken when the odds are favorable, and the smallest positions assumed when the odds are least favorable. By establishing portfolio blends between equities and income, you can control risks.

In the final section of the book, which begins with this chapter, emphasis shifts to show how specifically selecting stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) may be employed to create blended portfolios to ensure maximum profits within ...

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