buy and hold

I'm going to paint a word picture for you.
Suppose you own a stock that gave three successive buy signals last summer — in 2007. The stock ran from $28 per share up to $34 a share. (…)

Ever heard of Bill Miller? He runs the Legg Mason Value Trust (LVMTX). Miller is literally splattered all over CNBC and other media outlets. (…)

This article could be titled: Can (fill in the blank) go any lower? I'm not picking on Merck.
The reality is you could drop in Merck, Citibank, General Motors, Ford, J.P. (…)

The period we're in now is not necessarily a "bull market" or a "bear market" but more like a structurally "fair market." I didn't make that up on my own — Tom Dorsey, from Dorsey Wright and Associates in Richmond coined that term. (…)

There was an article distributed nationwide, written by the Associated Press, and carried locally in the Asbury Park Press on March 22, 2008. (…)

Most Wall Street recommendations to buy are based on projected future revenues and/or projected future earnings. Projected. Or you could say, "predicted". (…)

Roughly 70% of all stock mutual funds invest in the exact same 500 stocks.  These are the stocks in the S&P 500 Index.
 
Seven years ago (Jan. (…)