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Greed is good, as long as you manage your risk

by Interactive Brokers Traders Insight|Published December 11, 2020

Steve Sosnick, Interactive Brokers’ chief strategist, discusses profit taking, IPOs, and how the market is quite speculative these days.

Aiming for high returns is the whole point of investing of course.

But it’s crucial to manage your risk in a market like this.

Photo Credit: Pictures of Money via Flickr Creative Commons

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Interactive Brokers Traders’ Insight (IBTI) is a venue for market-related articles and commentary covering an array of asset classes and topics. All articles published on Traders’ Insight are simultaneously published directly to our trading platform (TWS).
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