We all have different strategies, I have break my strategies into Long, Medium and short. Long is what I invest VERY long term, like my retirement mutual funds and blue chip dividend producers (which also supplements short term, get to that later) Mediums I hold from any where from 4 months to a few years. These are typically pharma's and biotech as they generally need more time for their products to come to fruition. Then there are my short category which can be held from an hour to 3-4 months. These produce the majority of month to month income (as well as dividends). In the case of SFOR I have used it to in the short term category with a small block for the med-long just in case it blows up. Its really the exception to my overall plan.