1.   Also, seasonal investors must avoid assuming that all summer stocks peak in the summer.

2.   As a result, say the planners, investors should avoid extreme bets and be prepared to cope with whatever the market offers up.

3.   At least one stock watcher, however, said Hop-On has all the hallmarks of a penny stock investors should avoid.

4.   A stronger dollar reduces concern international investors will avoid dollar-denominated securities to limit foreign-exchange losses.

5.   Burned investors largely avoid stocks, and trading is thin.

6.   Burned investors avoided the sector for years.

7.   But an investor can avoid that by selecting a strike price that approximates the price at which he planned to sell the stock anyway.

8.   But in general, value investors avoid beaten-up tech stocks.

9.   By contrast, once they sell a stock, investors cannot avoid the fact that they lost money.

10.   By holding Treasuries until maturity, an investor avoids principal risk.