How Rip Van Winkle Investors Can Wake Up Happy Doing Nothing Is Often A Solid Investment Strategy

If you’re an independent investor, how often do you trade? Once a week? Once a month? Once a year? At the busiest end of the spectrum are day traders, who sometimes don’t even bother to learn the names of companies they own, since it’s not worth researching something you bought this morning that will be sold this afternoon. At the other end are the Rip Van Winkle investors, named after the old story about a man who falls asleep and awakens 20 years later, having missed...