Re:What to Worry About in This Surreal Bull Market
by sharemywin on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @08:25AM
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The problem is a lot of people are momentum investing, hold and forget. kind of a variations on greater fool theory. eventually if I wait long enough someone will come along and buy this for what I paid or maybe more.
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Re:What to Worry About in This Surreal Bull Market
by AznHisoka on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @09:38AM
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Why is that a problem? Isn't "buy and hold" a sound strategy that is recommended by financial experts. Rather than "buy and constantly trade"
Re:What to Worry About in This Surreal Bull Market
by creaghpatr on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @10:09AM
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Depends on your time frame- there's a big difference between optimizing for year over year gains vs. 25+ years.
Re:What to Worry About in This Surreal Bull Market
by Spooky23 on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @08:35AM
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People are doing that because of the ridulous interest rate situation. If rates go up, that balloon will spring a leak as people move away from equities.
Re:What to Worry About in This Surreal Bull Market
by sharemywin on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @08:27AM
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I worry what if the entire market is made of fools that will buy their next slightly smaller share of the market at ever increasing prices.
It used to be that traders set pricing enough that if things got out of hand then traders would come in to sell/short. But what if most people just used buy and hold?