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  • Options traders will find opportunities, but long-term buy-and-hold investors should beware.

    unknown title 2011

  • All five are buy-and-hold funds: Their turnover has remained way below the 100% annual rate that was the average for all U.S. mutual funds in the 10 years through 2010, according to Morningstar Inc.

    Buy and Hold and Hold... Chris Gay 2011

  • He added that one of the reasons there aren't declines in the household sector is that bondholders with individual accounts are "stickier": They tend to consist of buy-and-hold investors who aren't as quick to make changes based on market movements.

    Fed Flags Spike in Muni Holdings by 'Household' Investors Andrew Ackerman 2011

  • Stock-market averages eventually recover, as all buy-and-hold investors now keep telling themselves.

    Dr. Doom Has Some Good News 2009

  • "I don't think this is a buy-and-hold market," says Joe Duran, chief executive officer of Irvine, Calif.-based United Capital Financial Advisers, which has $15 billion in assets under advisement.

    Timing the Market Works for Some Pros but Is Risky for Average Joe Charles Passy 2011

  • High-frequency trading-the opposite of traditional buy-and-hold investing-creates new opportunities for market manipulation, the study says.

    Study: SEC needs bigger budget for growing workload 2011

  • "The covered-call strategy is more protective than [a] simple buy-and-hold [one]," said Mr. Neiman, who is also president of Neiman Funds Management LLC and whose son, Dan Neiman, co-manages the fund.

    Options Pay Dividends for Fund Brendan Conway 2010

  • Executives, Barton suggests, might find new ways to filter input from shareholders while giving more weight to those who favor a longer-term, buy-and-hold approach.

    Dov Seidman: Which CEOs Get 'Should?' Dov Seidman 2011

  • He has moved some money out of his long-short equities portfolio, where he typically holds stocks for about three months, and shifted investments to a buy-and-hold strategy in which he stays in most securities for a year or longer.

    Trading Volumes Sink Even as Stocks Rally Jonathan Cheng 2010

  • Even some advisers who have sworn by a buy-and-hold strategy in the past defend the need to move, saying extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures.

    Timing the Market Works for Some Pros but Is Risky for Average Joe Charles Passy 2011

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