{"id":471,"date":"2004-06-24T18:00:14","date_gmt":"2004-06-24T23:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/mail-bag\/easing-into-position-during-market-uncertainty\/"},"modified":"2004-06-24T18:00:14","modified_gmt":"2004-06-24T23:00:14","slug":"easing-into-position-during-market-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/mail-bag\/easing-into-position-during-market-uncertainty\/","title":{"rendered":"Easing Into Position During Market Uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\">I notice that all your recent buys have been taken with a half position. Is this standard procedure for you is are you doing it because of the uncertain and volatile market? For adding on to a rising buy, some people advocate adding on 50% of the original buy with the next buy at 25% of the original and so on. Does this make sense to you?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong>My Response<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\">Not standard procedure, but procedure in an uncertain market.&nbsp; Much of that uncertainty was removed with the breakout of yesterday.&nbsp; Any positions opened at this point will be full positions.&nbsp; Please keep in mind that there are great stocks that won&#8217;t be purchased for the SelfInvestors.com.. i simply just don&#8217;t have the time to cover them all.&nbsp; I try to pick a couple here and there to give members an idea of real world, real time implementation of how a portfolio is run.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: I notice that all your recent buys have been taken with a half position. Is this standard procedure for you is are you doing it because of the uncertain and volatile market? For adding on to a rising buy, some people advocate adding on 50% of the original buy with the next buy at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/mail-bag\/easing-into-position-during-market-uncertainty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Easing Into Position During Market Uncertainty<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mail-bag"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}