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Economy

comradebillyboy

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1. The market goes up, the market goes down. The long term trend

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Apr 25, 2019, 02:36 PM

Apr 2019

is up so buy and hold has a lot of merit. One still needs to jettison losing investments and look for solid performers. Can't just go on autopilot. Our Fidelity account manager thinks our investments are fairly aggressive for our age though.

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"Buy and hold" does have its advantages. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2019 OP

The market goes up, the market goes down. The long term trend comradebillyboy Apr 2019 #1