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- From: watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu (Larry Watanabe)
- Subject: Re: 10 Highest Yielding Dow Stocks
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- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- References: <75y1n6=@rpi.edu> <Bxzo2u.487@cs.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov20.151520.19894@odi.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 04:29:53 GMT
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- ed@odi.com (Ed Schwalenberg) writes:
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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.
-
- > 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
-
- Exactly. You regard holding for 2-5 years, which is
- a period greater than 6 months to a year, as
- a buy and hold strategy.
-
- Thanks for supplying additional evidence for my
- posting :)
-
- >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.
-
- -Larry Watanabe watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu
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