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Buy and hold is dead
     James Rohrbach
"Buy-and-hold" investors who've seen their life savings crumble in this punishing market may want to consider shifting to a "trend-following" strategy instead. Over time, I've recognized some simple rules that trend followers would do well to follow.

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