Are there any Stock Brokers amoung us???

[Dubdabest]

Can't quite see why you think this is the case.

People with stop-losses in place have an exit strategy. Margin loan gives you no such thing. maybe you could show me the exit strategy applicable to Prime(?) and those other scoundrels that offered margin loans and are being investigated at the moment.

I think his point was that there is somekind of warning/alarm being raised when the portfolio value goes down by a certain threshold value/percentage (though not necessarily alleviating the risks) ... whereas with outright shares ownership you don't get the warning, unless you watch the market by the second!

[brad]

I think his point was that there is somekind of warning/alarm being raised when the portfolio value goes down by a certain threshold value/percentage (though not necessarily alleviating the risks) ... whereas with outright shares ownership you don't get the warning, unless you watch the market by the second!

Nope, no warnings with margin loans until you are up the creek and they are asking for money.

It's up to the investor to set up watch-lists, email alerts, stop-losses, etc

I've got a set & forget portfolio & you have to run it like a business & give it an appropriate amount of time & attention.