Deathtotaxes:
I am not looking to make fair comparisons! I just want my experiment to be successful!
To be perfectly honest, I have not practiced the buy and hold strategy. It goes against my value investing nature. When a position is not a "deal" any longer I usually unload.
But it is almost painful to watch a stock like HANS, which I bought in the single digits and sold in the teens, close at over 50 bucks today.
It is extremely hard for me and most people to hold onto a position after the price gets way ahead of the earnings.
By being forced to never sell a position, this experiment is my way of doing "violence to the will" as Schopenhauer would say.