When to Sell Your Fund: A Guide

I'm not one for complicated charting methods or long lists of dos and don'ts. As with the basics of buying, a selling strategy should be straightforward.

But not even the simple "buy low, sell high" suffices in this brave new economy. After all, "buy high, sell higher" holds true, too.

Yes, times have changed. With basic, boring blue-chips like Procter & Gamble (PG Quote) now the poster children for volatility, and value investing about as alive as Elvis, these days it's hard to know what to expect from a fund. ...