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4 errors and lessons from being long just before the October 2008 crash

By Paul | Published: October 12, 2008
S&P 500 review I have been waiting to go long in this bear market for a few weeks now, hoping for a bottom soon (first of my errors).  Then on week of September 29th, I decided to go all in (error #2).  S&P closed at 1099 that Friday.  A week later, on October 10th, the [...]
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