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Seven Resolutions for the New Bull Market

By David Edwards

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 Thumb-tacked over my desk is a chart of the value of the Long-Term Capital Management Fund, which quadrupled from 1993 to 1997, but was wiped out in a matter of months in 1998. I keep that chart to remind myself what can happen to an investor who forgets that it's not what you make during a bull market that counts, but what you keep during a bear market. I just finished my worst year in 20 years of investing -- down 20% in 2002 and down 27% from the market peak in March 2000. However, I'm still in business, which is more than I can say for many of my peers. Is the bear market of the past three years finally over, setting us up for the next bull run? The pending war with Iraq clouds the near-term outlook, but I have the equity portion of...

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