Mac77

The Death of Buy and Hold?

Most folks concept of history starts at the beginning of their own lifetimes.

Buy and Hold was the dominate strategy from 1980 to 2000. It worked better than any other investment strategy over the last hundred years. However there were numerous other periods of history where Buy and Hold did not work at all....1920-1940...196... and beyond? It's not a question of the validity of Buy and Hold, it's a problem of your time frame is history.

There is an investment commercial where some guys are fishing on a boat at sea. They hear distant thunder and see some dark clouds on the horizon. They head back to shore and avoid the storm. Sounds like good investment advice (for these times) to me.