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What is a Buy and Hold Strategy? A buy and hold strategy can be thought of as what someone might use in a retirement account or college account (comprised of stock) for a young child. They make investments and let them sit there without changes for a long time regardless of any movements in price because these movements should be short-term.

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Finance allah shmoop what is a buy and hold strategy

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Your broker hates this You buy one stock and hold

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it for twenty five years How is she ever going

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to pay for her beach house when you pay her

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no commissions Well that's her problem If you buy and

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hold the right stock you'll have crushed it Making serious

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bank had you bought ten grand worth of amazon after

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it was cut in half following a typo wouldn't be

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worth over ten million bucks today Shop around find another

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next year by it Hold it live it so that

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maybe in the course of three decades you've bought now

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thirty stocks and you never sell or pay taxes well

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it's that strategy in part that made warren buffett the

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richest man in america and he's been up there for

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a long time He picks one stock holds of forever

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and just counts his dough and note When you buy

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and hold the stock you don't realize a gain on

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your taxes You keep everything it's very important when you

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calculate financial returns That's nice work if you have the

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brain and guts to put all your eggs in just

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a small handful of baskets Picking the right stocks that

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really work You gotta watch your step though When you

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do that you know when i wind up with you

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know egg on your face like the rest of us

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