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7 Dividend Stocks to Prove Buy-and-Hold Isn't Dead

it is sort of an interesting concept that current flash trading programs are essentially immaterial to long term buy and hold investing-kind of like the concept that if the bath water is running, the tub will eventually be full, regardless whether the drain is left open. This may somewhat persuade the foolish so long as the fill rate exceeds the drain rate, but falls apart totally when WS Greed applies their suction pump to the drain, as in the current economic debacle. This flash trading relentless drain of money from the overall market devastates the profitablity of long term holding of good companies with the same certainty that it devastates short term private traders.