I’ve posted Entry #62 to my weekly Beyond Buy-and-Hold column at the Out of Your Rut site. It’s called Nine Reasons Why Buy-and-Hold Can Never Work.
Juicy Excerpt: The key to success in many types of life endeavor is learning from feedback. Because Buy-and-Holders don’t adjust their portfolio values to show the effect of valuations, the feedback they receive is often misleading.
I was warning people back in 2002 that going with a high stock allocation at the price levels that applied at the time was a terrible mistake. The usual response I received from Buy-and-Holders was “I’m doing just fine.” Huh? Buy-and-Hold was a disaster in the late 1990s. It took stock prices to the most insanely high levels ever seen in history. Yet Buy-and-Holders were not aware of the problem because they were viewing the numbers on their portfolio statements as legitimate.
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