Got the Buy-and-Hold Blues? Don't Feel Bad, It's the American Way

Buy-and-hold investors, once considered the virtuous, are now the ridiculed.

Read publications from TheStreet.com to The New York Times, talk to a financial expert type, or just look at your own portfolio and self reflect: Buy-and-holders are being branded as foolish at best and greedy at worst.

What kind of knucklehead would not have known better than to get out of tech when the going was good? What kind of pig would hunger for greater gains than be thankful for what the gods had given? What kind of lout, feeling flush, would assume more debt than take profits to pay down the loans he owed? ...