Comments on: Practical Investment Advice For The Stock Investor http://thesmarterwallet.com/2009/investment-advice-stock-investor/ Money Tips, Consumer News and Product Reviews To Improve Your Finances Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:47:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: SVB http://thesmarterwallet.com/2009/investment-advice-stock-investor/comment-page-1/#comment-5968 SVB Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:06:02 +0000 http://thesmarterwallet.com/?p=6300#comment-5968 Shadox, I was on the buy and hold bandwagon all the way... then last year happened. I'd love to see this to be true going forward -- the statistics are in favor of long term indexing to be a true winning strategy as you say. I've been in the stock market for around 20 years now, and so far, it hasn't been too bad -- but it certainly could have gone better if the financial crisis didn't hit. Still there's never 100% certainty about anything. Shadox,
I was on the buy and hold bandwagon all the way… then last year happened. I’d love to see this to be true going forward — the statistics are in favor of long term indexing to be a true winning strategy as you say. I’ve been in the stock market for around 20 years now, and so far, it hasn’t been too bad — but it certainly could have gone better if the financial crisis didn’t hit. Still there’s never 100% certainty about anything.

]]> By: shadox http://thesmarterwallet.com/2009/investment-advice-stock-investor/comment-page-1/#comment-5948 shadox Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:55:10 +0000 http://thesmarterwallet.com/?p=6300#comment-5948 How about this piece of advice: step 1: buy a total stock market index fund from Vanguard or Fidelity; step 2: do nothing for 25 years. According to many academic research papers, that a winning strategy. How about this piece of advice: step 1: buy a total stock market index fund from Vanguard or Fidelity; step 2: do nothing for 25 years.

According to many academic research papers, that a winning strategy.

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