I will never get the idea of "not wanting to be out of a stock over a weekend". The exact opposite is always true. Good things don't happen on weekends, at least not good things to stocks. Announcements, partnerships, reports, nothing good happens on weekends for equities. Business is conducted and reported during the business week. Occasionally bad things happen, Pearl Harbor was bombed on a Sunday e.g. In a perfect investing world there would be some magical way to always be all-cash on weekends and start exactly where you were close of Fri on the following Mon and still enjoy the benefits of a long term position. I suppose there could be after market news of any sort Fri eve, but in that sense Monday is no different than any other "next day". The number of times I've read folks muse about being "left out" over a weekend as if anything ever happened to any equity in the known universe or otherwise (short of bad things like war, assassination, oil wells blowing up etc) is mind boggling. The notion is some serious crack.
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