Selena Maranjian: The Secret to Buy-and-Hold Investing

Will the Republicans Win Governor Races In... Buy and hold. It's a familiar investing maxim, and one frequently under attack these days. It still has its supporters, though, as many believe you can find stocks you'll probably never want to sell. Long-term investing can also play an important role in helping your portfolio recover. Â I'm a practitioner of buying and holding, myself, but I'd like to make a little clarification. Here in Fooldom, when we talk about buying and holding, we don't mean to suggest that you should never sell or that you should buy and then never look at the stock again. Instead, think of the strategy as buying tohold. You buy with the aimof holding for a very long time. That is, after all, how many of the world's best investors made a lot of their money. Berkshire Hathaway 's (NYSE: BRK-B) Warren... [read full story]                    

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