For an easy entry just buy the SPY or QQQ or non-leveraged index tracker of choice and forget about it.

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In managing a portfolio that has a bias toward equities the balance is usually a combination of cash equity and index or sector tracker funds.

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Jain also gets his patients to use a body weight tracker called BMI by NutriSystem to track their body mass index, since depression is a mind-body disorder.

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