SI37: Is "Buy and Hold" the perfect investment strategy? and should you "Equal Weight"?

Published: May 25, 2019, 7:43 p.m.

Is \u2018Buy & Hold\u2019 the S&P500 index the perfect investment strategy?  Should you apply Equal-Weighting across all of your Trading positions?  Are long-term strategies the only way to avoid market noise?  Also, we give our thoughts on why you should avoid \u2018Fat-Tail Distributions\u2019, Volatility versus Risk, how Trend Following strategies tend to \u2018melt-up\u2019 rather than crash down, and our upcoming Systematic Investor Series Live Event.

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Episode TimeStamps:

00:00 \u2013 Intro

01:55 \u2013 Weekly review of performance

06:30 \u2013 Live event update 10/26/19-10/27/19; 12 people

09:30 \u2013 Top tweets

52:20 \u2013 Question 1: Sam- Please discuss equal weighting positions.

01:00:30 \u2013 Benchmark performance update

01:01:50 \u2013 Final thoughts

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