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Old 03-11-2009, 08:17 PM
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Cool A buy & hold kinda gal.........
Yeah....... I was also a buy & hold kinda gal ..... way back when I retired 10 years ago! My retirement present for myself was to purchase my first PC, and I started trading online with Charles Schwab!

I'm kinda lame when it comes to financial stuff but it was so easy to make a deposit at my local CS business and then go online and click on "buy". During that time, 1998, stocks were climbing and so was my account - so I felt good about that. Their website gave "advice" on whatever stock you inquired about and it always said "BUY" - I don't ever recall it saying "sell".

Anyway, a year or so later...... stuff hit the fan ...... Bill Gates got in trouble, stocks started falling and I just held on

The end of my story is not pretty Ya gotta know when to SELL !
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