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...smoke and ashes to come. For a few retro days, Dow stocks soared as investors, perhaps sensing an imminent rush to the tech exit, sold all things dotcom. Just about everyone who wanted to got through the door--this time. But if you've made a bundle in NASDAQ stocks and are concerned about their increasing volatility, consider protecting what you've made. Here's how, starting with some basics and moving up the ladder...
...Sell short. If you can't part with your tech darlings, cut your exposure by shorting the NASDAQ 100 or buying a put option on the index. When you short the index, you borrow a basket of shares and sell, hoping to replace them at a lower price and profit from the decline. A put option gives you the right to sell at a predetermined price, protecting you from a steep drop...
Never mind Wall Street; Alan Greenspan wants Main Street to tone it down a bit. Greenspan issued another rate hike on Tuesday, a quarter-percent rise that brings the Fed's short-term interest rates to 6 percent - a five-year high. For a change, neither the NASDAQ nor the Dow flinched; traders have expected the hike for weeks. If Greenspan's plan works, the rate hike (and the two or three additional increases expected in coming months) will have a three-faceted impact on slowing consumer spending, aaccording to a plan outlined last month in the Fed chief...
...briefing, Greenspan warned that consumers have been given incentives to spend uncontrollably by low credit card rates, a false sense of wealth fueled by daily plus signs next to the NASDAQ's performance and the fact that foreign products have been so cheap in the wake of financial crises in Europe and Asia. The three-pronged remedy will come by discouraging spending through increased credit card rates, encouraging savings through higher interest rates, and continuing the assault on the stock markets, which could bring consumers' demand more in line with their true wealth rather than with the exuberance engendered...
...Months it took for the NASDAQ to move from...