Investors like to have a strategy that fits into a neat little package. 

Do you have a risk control strategy? If you don't, your money is in jeopardy. There are people who do not intentionally risk anything and at the other end of the spectrum there are those who bet the farm on a regular basis. The latter usually lose the farm.

The euro was so deflated in 1998 and 1999 that 100 euros would buy you just 87 U.S. dollars. Today, 100 euros gets you 142 dollars.

No, sorry. That was just to get your attention. We are not talking about politics-this is a business column.