An investment strategy is a set of guidlines, behaviors or procedures designed to maximize overall return for an individual's investment portfolio. Investment is a term with several closely-related meanings in finance and economics. ...

One of the better known investment strategies is buy and hold. Buy and hold is a long term investment strategy based on the concept that in the long run equity markets give a good rate of return despite periods of volatility or decline. This viewpoint also holds that market timing, 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. Buy and hold is a long term investment strategy based on the concept that in the long run equity markets give a good rate of return despite periods of volatility or decline. ... In economics, the period of time required for economic agents to reallocate resources, and generally reestablish equilibrium. ... A stock market is a market for the trading of publicly held company stock and associated financial instruments (including stock options, convertibles and stock index futures). ... Volatility is the standard deviation of the change in value of a financial instrument with a specific time horizon. ... Market timing is the strategy of attempting to predict future price movements through use of various fundamental and technical analysis tools. ...