buy-and-hold strategy

Buy-and-hold strategy

A passive investment strategy with no active buying and selling of assets from the time the portfolio is created until the end of the investment horizon. Opposite of active strategy.

buy-and-hold strategy

The investment strategy of purchasing securities and holding them for extended periods of time. Investors using the buy-and-hold strategy select companies on the basis of their long-term outlook. Such investors are not influenced by short- or intermediate-term movements in the price of a security.