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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 1368938, member: 3011&quot;]I don&#039;t agree. Consider if you purchased XOM, PG, WFC, INTC, PEP, JNJ, and MO.&nbsp; That would provide tremendous diversification, safety, dividends, growth and diversification without buying anything weird or horrible.&nbsp; [These are not recommendations to buy, only for illustration].&nbsp; I also don&#039;t think correlation is a goal worth pursuing unless you are a pension fund.&nbsp; Value is the goal worth pursuing.&nbsp; If you want 100% correlation, buy and index.&nbsp; If you want to do better, do a little homework -- but it just isn&#039;t that difficult.&nbsp; Ben Graham pointed this out 80 years ago and it is still good advice.&nbsp; Academics and investment salemen have a vested interest in making the simple seem complex because complexity is the source of their income.&nbsp; But the average person can and should avoid imitating them -&nbsp; all my opinion of course.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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