The efficient market hypothesis claimed that, over time, investors couldn't beat the market...that it was smarter than investors. And yes, Warren Buffett chuckles at this notion, because he slaughtered it for half a century. He is wealthy, and Andrew Lo, the MIT professor who posited this theory in 2004, is not. But just to humor the position, the adaptive market hypothesis is cattle rope, trying to bring the efficient market theory together with various models of irrational behavior in the stock market. It's kind of a Darwinian approach to the way in which the stock market works, relying largely on psychology striating the food chain for who does what to whom, in a kind of unholy wrestling match between greed and fear, where fraudulent behavior is the referee.
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Finance allah shmoop what is a buy and hold strategy
Your broker hates this You buy one stock and hold
it for twenty five years How is she ever going
to pay for her beach house when you pay her
no commissions Well that's her problem If you buy and
hold the right stock you'll have crushed it Making serious
bank had you bought ten grand worth of amazon after
it was cut in half following a typo wouldn't be
worth over ten million bucks today Shop around find another
next year by it Hold it live it so that
maybe in the course of three decades you've bought now
thirty stocks and you never sell or pay taxes well
it's that strategy in part that made warren buffett the
richest man in america and he's been up there for
a long time He picks one stock holds of forever
and just counts his dough and note When you buy
and hold the stock you don't realize a gain on
your taxes You keep everything it's very important when you
calculate financial returns That's nice work if you have the
brain and guts to put all your eggs in just
a small handful of baskets Picking the right stocks that
really work You gotta watch your step though When you
do that you know when i wind up with you
know egg on your face like the rest of us
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