Originally Posted by
FWAAA
It would be great to be able to sell equities today with the option of selling them for the prices those equities were worth 60-90 days ago, no?
On the flip side, it'd be pretty awful to be counting on your retirement portfolio at age 65, only to have it lose half its value a few months beforehand. I'm very glad there are still some jobs out there that insulate their employees from these pitfalls.