buy and hold

Exchange Traded Funds provide investors with an assortment of ways to invest in very diverse instruments as if they were simple stock purchases.  The variety and scope of this market has become extremely vast and continues to grow.  One of the common flavors of ETF are leveraged ETFs.  These funds seek to duplicate the results of a multiple of the daily change of a given underlying asset.  While this may sound appealing, it is pivotal to understand that leveraged ETFs are generally for trading and not for holding for long periods of time.  The reason is sim

Exchange Traded Funds provide investors with an assortment of ways to invest in very diverse instruments as if they were simple stock purchases.  The variety and scope of this market has become extremely vast and continues to grow.  One of the common flavors of ETF are leveraged ETFs.  These funds seek to duplicate the results of a multiple of the daily change of a given underlying asset.  While this may sound appealing, it is pivotal to understand that leveraged ETFs are generally for trading and not for holding for long periods of time.  The reason is sim

Many pundits have been claiming that the modern stock market has taught us that the buy and hold strategy is invalid. They advocate that the massive declines of 2008 and 2009 are evidence that buy and hold does not work. They allege that this strategy was sold to the American investor to line the pockets of Wall Street and has no validity. Should you be changing your investing strategy?

Many pundits have been claiming that the modern stock market has taught us that the buy and hold strategy is invalid. They advocate that the massive declines of 2008 and 2009 are evidence that buy and hold does not work. They allege that this strategy was sold to the American investor to line the pockets of Wall Street and has no validity. Should you be changing your investing strategy?