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Understanding What Buy and Hold Really Means

With respect and I do generally respect your opinions just how does even an enlightened investor do valid research on individual equities? Way too many uncertainties not to mention outright misinformation to ever accomplish this in my opinion.


On Apr 29 02:21 AM Steven Hansen wrote:

> an old advisor once told me it is not so much the stock as the sector.
> once you identify the sector, the selection of the stock becomes
> relatively easy.
>
> my point is performing sectors keep changing. and now today we are
> faced with a unpredictable future. in a long running bull market
> everything is moving up (of course at different rates) so buy and
> hold works no matter how lazy you are.
>
> the bottom line is that i review my sectors monthly, and take action
> as required.
>