{"id":1168,"date":"2008-12-03T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T20:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2008-12-03T15:00:15","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T20:00:15","slug":"strategy-lab-dont-buy-and-hold-a-bad-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/03\/strategy-lab-dont-buy-and-hold-a-bad-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategy Lab: Don’t Buy and Hold a Bad Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

For many people, this has been one of the most difficult times of their lives. Both in the U.S. and abroad, \"Free<\/a>people are living under a cloud of uncertainty about their future financial position. I know this because I have been inundated with e-mail from people asking for help.<\/p>\n

People are hurting.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two recent e-mails read in part:<\/p>\n

“My sister suggested I contact you. My investment account has lost an incredible amount of money and my ‘advisor’ is clueless what to do. I am down $385k from over $600k. Please contact me so that I can provide you with the information so you can review.”<\/p>\n

“My husband and I are currently living in Eastern Europe. I am not a U.S. citizen, but he is. He had significant investments and savings in the U.S., but they have lost a lot of value recently. We need the help of a financial advisor\/planner to make sure we do not lose our savings for our kids, retirement, etc.”<\/p>\n

These are not the exception, by any means. In fact, for the past year, my team and I have been working to change the mindset of investors who have been indoctrinated into the buy-and-hold club. You know, the one that tries to prove that all other investment strategies are worthless and are likely to lose massive amounts of money.<\/p>\n

Read the entire article HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For many people, this has been one of the most difficult times of their lives. Both in the U.S. and abroad, people are living under a cloud of uncertainty about their future financial position. I know this because I have been inundated with e-mail from people asking for help. People are hurting. Two recent e-mails […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[186,12,253,251],"tags":[483,229,244,164],"class_list":["post-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketmash","category-markets","category-strategy","category-msn-strategy-lab","tag-markets","tag-msn-money","tag-strategy-lab","tag-trading","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}