Stocks for the Long Run

Jeremy Siegel is the poster boy for buy-and-hold investing. His book is full of data and charts that support his views.

We don't quarrel with his basic argument but do point out that most investors don't have a life span of 100 years much less an investing period that long. So the fact that stocks have a long-term uptrend of 100 or more years matters little to most retail investors. It's what happens to prices in your period of investing that counts.