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To: Dale Baker who wrote (252)11/16/1997 2:14:00 PM
From: Raymond HillRead Replies (1) of 118717
 
I have just discovered your thread. I was referenced here from the BNGO thread that I was looking at for the first time. Your question about trading versus long-term investing is one that all investors have to wrestle with and I think that the decision should be influenced by what kind of a market exists at the time. For instance, a bull market allows for more long-term holding than a market in a trading range.

However, we are continually bombarded by supposed experts that either claim the bull market is alive and well and will last for more than ten years, or that the market is on the verge of a tremendous crash that will teach us a lesson for being so greedy. I have personally handled this uncertainty by investing primarily in very few stocks that have had such superior fundamentals that I felt they would either go up in a bull market, or at least hold relatively well in a down market. Probably easier said than done.

Some people deal with this problem by segregating their position into a 2/3 - 3/4 long-term investment and 1/4 -1/3 short-term trading segment. I personally find myself so attached to my major holding at the moment, that I have kept holding it for the long-term, even though hindsight tells me it would have been smart to sell and buy it back.
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