When stocks, commodities, gold, and talk of the death for the U.S. dollar are all increasing together, the scene is set for a severe stock market, commodities market, and gold price crash. In a crash-stock market or otherwise, potentially all of the 2009 gains for the S&P 500, Dow, oil, gold, silver, and even emerging markets could be lost. Buy and hold has been a losing investment strategy for this decade. With another crash across several investment and stock markets, buy and hold investors will be flushed out once again.

Either an investor must avoid getting swept away in a stock market crash, or learn about hedging positions.

Knowing when to sell out and avoid a market crash all together is the best choice and the hardest. That leaves hedging an investment portfolio with options as the simpler choice.