Comments on: Playing the China card (Sunday Times 6 Dec) http://www.transitioning.org/2009/12/06/playing-the-china-card-sunday-times-6-dec/ Support Site for The Unemployed & Underemployed Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:21:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rohitkumar Desai http://www.transitioning.org/2009/12/06/playing-the-china-card-sunday-times-6-dec/comment-page-1/#comment-706 Rohitkumar Desai Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:42:32 +0000 http://www.transitioning.org/?p=4741#comment-706 With all due respect, Buy-and-Hold strategy wouldn't work in today's dynamic and liquid markets. If an investor had practiced this strategy over the last decade, he would have gotten nowhere. This strategy has lost more people more money that anything else. Markets are driven by large institutional investors, such as mutual funds. Their criteria of buying and selling stocks do not just involve fundamentals of a company, but also their own balance sheets, and could be different from those of an individual small investor. A small investor has to do a lot of homework, and be an active investor in today's markets. With all due respect, Buy-and-Hold strategy wouldn’t work in today’s dynamic and liquid markets. If an investor had practiced this strategy over the last decade, he would have gotten nowhere. This strategy has lost more people more money that anything else.

Markets are driven by large institutional investors, such as mutual funds. Their criteria of buying and selling stocks do not just involve fundamentals of a company, but also their own balance sheets, and could be different from those of an individual small investor.

A small investor has to do a lot of homework, and be an active investor in today’s markets.

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