Rule Number One – Avoid Large Losses in Retirement
Right now the managed fund industry is still in denial that “buy and hold” has failed and will always fail in the long run. Or should I say it will fail every 5-7 years as the funds run up stock prices to unsustainable levels. This is your opportunity to play a winning hand by “timing [...]
Tags: buy and hold timing, dollar cost averaging, Investing for the long term, stop loss strategyI don’t think the message is getting through to financial planners any more than it is getting through to bay boomers. That message is Baby Boomers have to observer and respect Rule #1 – Avoid Large Losses in Retirement. Chasing high returns by having a high proportion of your money invested in equities (risk-based assets) [...]
Tags: Al Thomas, Avoid Large Losses, credit crunch, reverse profit, review financial plans, Stop LossIn the world of buy and hold the only one doing it is probably you. Everyone else is timing the market and maybe using your money to do it. Brokers put out regular newsletters to buy, hold, accumulate and occasionally sell stocks. Isn’t that market timing? Mutual Fund managers feverishly trade stocks in their funds [...]
We all know the mantra espoused by the wealth management industry about the need for us poor dumb investors to buy and hold because there is no way we can time the market. Yet these very people are doing just the opposite with your money, desperately trying to get returns in a falling market to [...]
I thought I might try and see how Buy and Hold Non-Strategy held up against a Stop Loss Strategy from the 2000 stock market crash to now. I know when I watched the market recover from the March lows I was tempted to put some money in the market. But I use stops and my [...]
Tags: Avoid Large Losses, buy and hold, Market Timing, Stop Loss, stoploss, technical analysis, timing the marketIf you are a retiree and use Buy and Hold strategies with your nest egg you may be gambling. If you are relying on this money to live on then you need to manage the risk. I’m talking about Baby Boomers who don’t have much surplus money and will need the bulk of their money [...]
I had an email the other day from Paul one of my subscribers. He asked, “What was a good Stop Lost Percentage to use? He went on to ask if I could provide more information that might help him. I thought I would answer his question using a post to my blog. However I need [...]
Tags: Avoid Large Losses, buy and hold, dollar cost averaging, protect your nest egg, stop loss strategyBuy and Hold is really Buy and Hope Baby Boomers you’ve got to know when to buy and hold ‘em and know when to buy and fold ‘em as Kenny Roger’s tells us in his famous song. Most financial advisers will tell you to buy and hold your investments for the long term, as the [...]
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