Remember, of course, that this loss strategy is irrelevant for 401(k) or IRA holdings.
Finally, investors can use a stop-loss strategy to mitigate greater losses should their assessment of the opportunity prove to be wrong.
Over the years I have written more than a few articles advocating the loss harvesting strategy and providing recipes for its implementation.
Nintendo wants to make a profit from its console sales rather than sell at a loss, a strategy that worked well for the company with the Wii.
"You just fight and just get every ball back, run every ball down, and just get a lot of balls in play, " said Stephens, explaining her strategy after the loss of that first set.
The new strategy also meant the loss of much of HTC's existing business, because some customers did not want to do business with an emerging rival.
We have found that in the typical profile of a profitable options trading strategy, the average loss on losing trades tends to be about 35% and the average profit on winning trades is 70% to 75%.
The essential strategy to mitigate risks of data loss and downtime is to add redundancy and reduce dependencies wherever possible.
They had the wisdom to change their strategy and execution after their humiliating loss to the Patriots, 45-3 only a few weeks earlier.
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That would be a sharp change from the current strategy of funneling all bookstore profits into the loss-making Nook venture.
Officials in several states are seeking to stem the strategy by limiting so-called stop-loss insurance, which covers unexpected, large health-care bills for self-insured companies.
Even Hastings acknowledged the strategy might saddle the company with its first annual loss in a decade.
Since first disclosing the loss, Dimon has largely pinned the blame on a hedging strategy gone wrong, a synthetic credit portfolio initially intended to protect the company that became a successful position and blinded those who were in charge of managing it to the rising threat it posed.
Nor does she believe that Mr Murdoch's strategy represents the last throw of the dice for some of his loss-making papers.
Since individual investors using this strategy must wait 30 days before repurchasing any stock sold at a loss to avoid triggering the wash sale rule, these stocks can decline in December and rise in January.
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But to implement this strategy seems to require that the company manufacture critical components in China, risking the loss of essential technologies.
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That strategy saved one of his clients, a Freddie Mac employee, from taking a massive loss, he says.
But its overall performance has remained loss making as it invests in new areas and products as part of its 'land grab' strategy.
This strategy assumed that bestsellers would draw consumers into bookstores and that turning the most desirable books into loss leaders would fuel more profitable sales.
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The inflated loss estimates make NBA owners look less wealthy than they really are, and serve a dual purpose as a bargaining strategy and public relations ploy.
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