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Comment by bmitc

19 hours ago

Buy and hold performs well over long time scales by simply not adjusting based upon sentiment.

Operating word is long, historically if you entered the market just before a downturn, it could take years up to a couple of decades to make up. Depending on which downturn we are looking at.

  • I think that requires entering once. I was referring to continuing to enter periodically and holding.