We also have substantially
increased our position in disaster insurance... We continue to be willing to give up a portion of our upside to protect against serious downside exposure.
But what if you are not one of the typical job hunters who has maintained positions within the same industry and
increased positions of responsibility within one particular field?
I also don't like to
increase a position on the back of a falling price, unless I've some fresh news / info to reinforce my view.
Gary: Belmont's management currently owns 5.5 % of the issued and outstanding shares and is
increasing its position as demonstrated in participation in the recently completed private placements, as well as exercising of warrant and stock option shares.
As Marty Schwartz said in the the market wizards article that I quoted him in, «Also, do
n't increase your position size until you have doubled or tripled your capital.
However, as I
recently increased my position in Royal Dutch Shell from 360 shares by 200 shares to 560 shares and because some of my interest - bearing positions are only due at the end of the year, my goal for 2017 to earn an average passive income of $ 200 per month still seems realistic to me.
Now 0.0183 shares of AAPL is not much but I'm happy with Loyal3 and over the coming weeks and months I'm going to
slowly increase my position in Apple.
Though professional investors did
increase their positions from 50 percent in 1994 to 65 percent in 1999, in the four years that followed the pros held their equity positions steady at about 60 percent.
and next year we decide not to rank them or rank them lower than we might otherwise think, in an effort to game people around us and
maybe increase our position.
At a more advanced / certain stage, and presuming returns look sufficiently attractive, I'd have no
problem increasing a position up to 5 - 7.5 % of my portfolio.