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In this episode, we ask:
- Should you buy and hold index funds? Should you buy and hold ETFs?
- What is buy and hold?
- What did Einstein say is the 8th wonder of the world?
- Have you been influenced by this idea of buy and hold?
- Have you ever been told to “stay the course” in your accounts?
- Where can you find buy and hold?
- What are the problems of buy and hold investing?
- Why is there so much clickbait with buy and hold?
- What is Warren Buffet’s favorite holding period?
- Can you hold a stock forever?
- What about your finite life?
- What is the max we can do?
- How long does the average person hold their stock?
- What about back in the 1960s?
- Do we buy and sell at the right times?
- What about the recent advice in Tony Robbins’ latest book Unshakeable?
- What is “financial winter” ?
- When does “financial winter” come?
- How often does “financial winter” come?
- How much on average has wall street lost every single year?
- On average how much can you expect to lose every 3 to 5 years?
- Was 2008 just a “financial winter”?
- What is the problem of losing 14% per year?
- Is it acceptable to lose 34% every 3 to 5 years?
- How much more do you have to earn after that sort of loss?
- Do the bad years hurt much more than the good years help?
- What is the problem of “bouncing back”? Do you actually “bounce back”?
- Did you break even? Did you lose money?
- If your main point to stay in a 401(k) is to avoid the penalty, does it matter with a 14% annual loss?
- But what about the match?
- How can you protect your cash?
- Would you like your money to grow in a straight line or like a roller coaster?
- Where does your money live?
- What emotions are involved with buy and hold?
- Why not take the straight line?
- How does volatility affect your lifespan?
- How often do dips happen?
- What kind of life do you want to live?
- What about active management?
- What about passive (buy and hold) management?
- What’s better than buy and hold? Active management? Safety and liquidity?
