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Encyclopedia > Buy and hold

Buy and hold is a long term investment strategy based on the concept that in the long run financial markets give a good rate of return despite periods of volatility or decline. This viewpoint also holds that market timing, i.e. the concept that one can enter the market on the lows and sell on the highs, does not work or does not work for small investors so it is better to simply buy and hold. In economics, the period of time required for economic agents to reallocate resources, and generally reestablish equilibrium. ... An investment strategy is a set of guidlines, behaviors or procedures designed to maximize overall return for an individuals investment portfolio. ... In finance, financial markets facilitate: The raising of capital (in the capital markets); The transfer of risk (in the derivatives markets); and International trade (in the currency markets). ... Volatility most frequently refers to the standard deviation of the change in value of a financial instrument with a specific time horizon. ... Market timing is the strategy of making buy or sell decisions of financial assets (often stocks) by attempting to predict future market price movements. ...


The antithesis of buy and hold is the concept of day trading in which money can be made in the short term if an individual tries to short on the peaks, and buy on the lows with greater money coming with greater volatility. Day trading refers to the practice of buying and selling financial instruments within the same trading day such that all positions will usually (not necessarily always) be closed before the market close of the trading day. ... It has been suggested that Short (finance) be merged into this article or section. ...


One of the strongest arguments for the buy and hold strategy is the efficient market hypothesis (EMH): If every security is fairly valued at all times, then there is really no point to trade. Some take the buy and hold strategy to an extreme, advocating that you should never sell a security unless you need the money [1]. In finance, the efficient market hypothesis (EMH) asserts that financial markets are informationally efficient, or that prices on traded assets, e. ... For security (collateral), the legal right given to a creditor by a borrower, see security interest A security is a fungible, negotiable interest representing financial value. ...


Basically there are two ways in which you can make money utilizing the Buy and Hold strategy, namely:

  • Over time property prices and rental values gain monetary value due to inflation. That is they become worth more - more expensive;
  • Over time your mortgage and its repayment lose monetary value due to inflation. That is they are getting cheaper. [1]

Others have advocated buy and hold on purely cost-based grounds, without resort to the EMH. Costs such as brokerage and bid/offer spread are incurred on all transactions, and buy-and-hold involves the fewest transactions for a given amount invested in the market, all other things being equal. Warren Buffett is an example of a buy and hold advocate who has rejected the EMH in his writings. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The bid/offer spread is the difference between the buying (bid) and selling (offer) price of the same stock or currency transaction. ... Warren Edward Buffett (b. ... Warren Edward Buffett (b. ...


Notes

  1. ^ The truth about buy and hold by Intrmrk

See also

Passive management (also called passive investing) is a financial strategy in which a fund manager makes as few portfolio decisions as possible, in order to minimize transaction costs, including the incidence of capital gains tax. ... The Halloween indicator is a theory that the period from November to April inclusive has significantly stronger stock market growth on average than the other months. ...

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