We have been writing on the topic of buy-and-hold investing for the past few weeks now.  We have discussed the need for entries AND exits when market timing, how long run returns are a function of many short term returns and the prospects for buy and hold in the next decade.

We recently come across a handful of other posts on the related topics of index and buy-and-hold investing.  We decided to provide some links and excerpts to whet your appetite.  Without further ado some food for thought.

Kent Grealish at IndexUniverse notes the ways in which our brains fool us as investors.  One antidote to that is index and avoiding market timing.  He writes:

Indexing is a strategy that accepts the futility of timing the market"”that there is no reliable...