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Ignore at any price

BAAP, SAAP, HODL and other similar concepts are dangerous for investors' wealth

Ignore at any price

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BAAP, SAAP, HODL. And probably many more that I haven't heard of. Perhaps some of my readers may also be unfamiliar with these, so I'll just spell them out. BAAP is 'buy at any price', SAAP is 'sell at any price', and HODL is 'hold on for dear life'. There's a whole zoo after that. In response to a tweet from someone with 2.5 million followers asking what the opposite of HODL was, I came across SODL, DUPM, FODL, FOOM and many others. Characteristically, no one explained what they meant, so perhaps they were mostly just some nonsense that people made up, which is not the most unusual thing to happen on Twitter. Have you noticed that the BAAP-SAAP-HODL trio is actually not a new choice for investors? Between the three of them, you just have an up-to-date version of the old trinity of Buy, S


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