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Readers Pick the Top 20 5-Year Horizon Stocks

That was an interesting popularity contest. However, we're in a secular bear market that is undergoing a strong (counter-trend) cyclical bull. I would not want to be initiating a 5 yr "buy and hold" here and my one instablog shows why :

seekingalpha.com/user/...

I urge you to at least view the first chart in my instablog, which is a 90 yr Dow chart showing percentage ups and downs. Volatility rules in a secular bear
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A First Look At How the SEC's Rules Are Working

Let's go one further - let's ban ALL selling of stock!

Oh, but we will let you sell to buy a home or pay a mortgage.

And pay medical bills...

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