Quote from MaxxHeatt:
If you understand market cycles and money management, you will blow away a buy and hold strategy. The markets are at the same levels they were 10 years ago. That's 10 years of no gains plus opportunity lost. Throw in some inflation and you're down. Many people have also lost fortunes from buying and holding fannie, freddie, mer, bear, wamu, leh, citi, you know , all the safe solid stuff. They've also watched the ciscos of the world lose most of their value. I repeat, if you don't know what you're doing, you might as well buy and hope...er, I mean hold.
Just a little visual to reiterate MaxxHeatt's position. Buy and hold since October 1998=LOSER!
