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Personal Finance and Investing

Consider these three investments to add to your portfolio

Nancy Tengler
Special to USA TODAY

Wall Street reputations have been made and lost calling market tops and bottoms. 

Often, a strategist will get one side of the call right – time to get out, let’s say – then miss entirely the signal to get back in. Behavioral finance experts provide many reasons investors behave the way they do at market tops and bottoms. 

Whatever the behavioral tendency, I ascribe to the Warren Buffett tenet that if you're not willing to own a stock for 10 years, you shouldn't even think about owning it for 10 minutes.

Investing, unlike trading, is a marathon, not a sprint.

Which is not to say that you should not be actively managing your portfolio. As one of my favorite Wall Street strategists, Nancy Lazar, reminds: When the facts change, change.