Baseball net continually debates the issue of the designated hitter (DH). Most American League (AL) fans favor the offense this rule provides, and even National League (NL) fans seem no longer strongly opposed, because the NL's chances chances are arguably improved with a DH during inter-league and World Series games.
However, baseball net enthusiasts are still deprived of a sport with one fair, uniform rule regarding the place of the pitcher in the lineup. Many AL baseball net enthusiasts experience this unfairness in inter-league and World Series games, where the AL is deprived of a DH in a NL park, yet the NL gets the benefit of the DH in an AL park.
But wait! There is a compromise that will add offense for AL fans, yet preserve strategy for traditionalist NL fans. Baseball net is the perfect blog to present it!
Instead of a DH, teams can use a DPH, or designated pinch-hitter. The manager would designate this player to bat for all pitchers, including relievers, in a game. This rule would allow the same player to bat as many times as desired for a pitcher, thus permitting a skilled offensive--though limited defensive--player to bat, and not potentially hurt the team in the field.
The DPH would preserve baseball net enthusiasts? love of strategy, in that a manager would have to decide whether or not to remove a pitcher for his designated pinch-hitter. Granted, unlike a DH, a DPH would not be guaranteed four bats-a-game. However, there would be enough at-bats during a 162-game season to justify this role.
All in all, the DPH offers baseball net fans an exciting combination of offense and strategy, thus preserving the best elements of AL and NL baseball in one package that is fair to both leagues. In short, the time has come for the DPH!
There’s a rumor going around that the Mutual Funds are broken and just can’t work anymore, for a multitude of reasons. They’ve tried index funds, but these, too, have been less than impressive since they hit the street a few years back, and are now being enhanced... what does that say? Here are some new and/or forgotten ideas that can get your investment program back on track:
1. Abandon the popular averages: Over the past six years, all of the major averages are grossly negative or just beginning to get back toward their best past levels. At the same time, the NYSE advance/decline line has been extremely positive. Additionally, the last time the averages were up, issue breadth was totally negative.
2. And the basics of investing, again, are what? Most investors confuse Quality with analyst expectations and think that Diversification means getting one of every product type that’s out there. In fact, they are basic risk minimization tools that every investor needs to use.
3. Appreciate the power of income: Base Income just has to grow every year, period, for a person to have any hope of keeping up with inflation. That’s right, growing Market Value is inflationary… particularly with respect to hat size, and income paves the road to retirement income.
4. Buy low (within reason), sell higher: Profitable company stock prices fluctuate just like unprofitable ones. The difference is that the former are much more likely to move back up again. Buy quality at lower prices (just like any other form of shopping), big BUT, set a reasonable (10% or so) profit-taking target… and pull the trigger. Re-load, and do it again.
5. Embrace The Working Capital Model: For both portfolio Asset Allocation and Performance Evaluation, use the cost basis of your holdings as opposed to their Market Value. This is the only way to use short time periods (a year being the shortest for anything at all meaningful) for any kind of analysis. Also, as a bonus, you’ll never make another fixed income mistake.
6. Fall in love with Volatility, not with securities of any kind: Market volatility is one of the few things (if there are any at all) that you can be certain about. Use it wisely and it will shorten your road to investment success. All too often, unrealized gains on the loved ones become realized losses on the tax return.
7. Remember Peak-to-Peak and Trough-to-Trough: There was a time when tests like these (and variations like P to T, or T to P) where the only valid (Market Value) tests of a manager’s ability. They still are. I have never found a correlation between the calendar year and any market, interest rate, or economic cycle.
8. Corrections are every bit as lovable as rallies: In truth, profit taking is more fun, and much easier decision-making than buying stocks while in the throes of a falling Equity Market. But one is just the flip side of the other, and you need to learn the lyrics to Every Day just as you knew Peggy Sue.
9. Understand The Investor’s Creed: How did trading get a bad rep? What is a stock exchange? Buy and hold just doesn’t fit. The key is timing (not market timing) and selectivity. In a rising market you should be selling more than buying, resulting in a growing cash position. This is a good thing. In a falling market you should be buying more than selling, resulting in a smaller cash position… also a good thing. If you run out of cash while the market is still falling, you are doing it right. By the same token, if you feel stupid having taken your profits and the market is still foaming, your brilliance will not be your only reward.
10. Investing is not a competitive event: It’s all about you: your money, your risk tolerance, your goals, and your objectives. It doesn’t matter what the others are doing, why and how. Think about this. There is no average, index, or benchmark that can be compared to the Market Value changes of a properly diversified portfolio. Nadda.
11. Establish Rules and Apply Discipline… a bonus idea. Just do it.
From: "The Brainwashing of the American Investor: The Book that Wall Street Does Not Want YOU to Read"
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