Comments on: Avoiding the Worst Days and Missing the Best Days http://thefinancebuff.com/2007/07/avoiding-worst-days-and-missing-best.html like a friend telling you about money ... Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:22:24 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Larry Rushing http://thefinancebuff.com/2007/07/avoiding-worst-days-and-missing-best.html/comment-page-1#comment-3531 Larry Rushing Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:48:46 +0000 http://blog.thefinancebuff.com/?p=144#comment-3531 Thanks for publishing the "Avoiding the Worst Days and Missing the Best Days." I recently attended a Schwab presentation where the "best" graphics was shown. I understood that was meaningless (as you said) but wondered about the flip side ... being out of the market on the worst days. Your article confirmed what I suspected ... it's all meaningless. However, neither suggests "buy and hold" is the one best strategy ... that there are times to be out of the market. Trick is guessing correctly when to get out, then when to get back in. We managed to do this in 1987, 2001 and 2008, with good results. Thanks again! Thanks for publishing the “Avoiding the Worst Days and Missing the Best Days.” I recently attended a Schwab presentation where the “best” graphics was shown.

I understood that was meaningless (as you said) but wondered about the flip side … being out of the market on the worst days. Your article confirmed what I suspected … it’s all meaningless. However, neither suggests “buy and hold” is the one best strategy … that there are times to be out of the market. Trick is guessing correctly when to get out, then when to get back in. We managed to do this in 1987, 2001 and 2008, with good results.

Thanks again!

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]]> By: Scott Berg http://thefinancebuff.com/2007/07/avoiding-worst-days-and-missing-best.html/comment-page-1#comment-1144 Scott Berg Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:43:33 +0000 http://blog.thefinancebuff.com/?p=144#comment-1144 May I get a copy of the spreadsheet? Google doesn't show it anymore and I want to see how you calculated the returns. Thanks! Scott May I get a copy of the spreadsheet? Google doesn’t show it anymore and I want to see how you calculated the returns. Thanks! Scott

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