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- From: ed@odi.com (Ed Schwalenberg)
- Subject: Re: 10 Highest Yielding Dow Stocks
- In-Reply-To: watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu's message of Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:30:29 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.151520.19894@odi.com>
- Organization: Object Design, Inc.
- References: <75y1n6=@rpi.edu> <Bxzo2u.487@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 15:15:20 GMT
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- In article <Bxzo2u.487@cs.uiuc.edu> watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu (Larry Watanabe) writes:
- Buying and holding is a relative term.
- Almost everyone buys and holds their stocks for at least 1 second.
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- Almost no-one buys and holds their stock for 100 years.
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- When people recommend buy and hold, what they are
- usually recommending is to buy and hold for at least
- 6 months to a year.
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- It has always appeared to me that buy-and-hold means holding for about
- half of a market cycle (i.e., on the order of 2-5 years), if you're
- talking about it as a strategy. Perhaps my understand is biased by
- the fact that I prefer fundamentalist, low-P/E, low-turnover investment
- styles.
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- When people like Hulbert use the term to compare investment results
- of differing strategies, they always explicitly state the beginning
- and end of the holding period.
-