To beat your neighbour’s ROI, invest in bonds

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To beat your neighbour’s ROI, invest in bonds

Once a trader has spent sufficient time in the markets and seen at least two cycles of boom and bust, he understands the virtue of patience and capital preservation.

As a student I watched the Hollywood 1987 blockbuster “Wall Street” with fascination. A young Michael Douglas’s “Greed is good” had become a catchphrase for us students. As was his dialogue “Lunch is for wimps.” It brought across the sense of urgency in a trader to get rich quickly. I had started trading in 1986 and I wanted to emulate Gordon Gekko the character that Douglas played. Every trader tries to remove speed breakers along his trading

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