Personal Trading Account Strategies That Are Work Friendly

What kind of strategies does everyone use in their personal accounts that are more interesting than the basic long/short but don't require significant surveillance at work? Besides things like 2+ month option strategies and the cover call what else does everyone use in their portfolio?

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...may not be trading but you're much more likely to make money with this over the long term. The number of people achieving satisfactory returns through part-time trading in PAs is vanishingly small, whatever anecdotes you may hear.

 

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