ETF Investing Strategies: Buy and Hold vs. Moving Average Week 19

Week 19 of Buy and Hold vs. Active Management ETF investing is complete. The Buy and Hold investor (Investor A) is on a downward trend and has lost another $300 this past week. His total portfolio is now under $12,000 ($11,976.53) for the first time in about 8 weeks. Investor A's total gain is now 19% after being nearly 28% about 4 weeks ago.

Investor B (50 day moving average/200 day moving average) holds 3 of the 10 ETF's from the balanced ETF portfolio used for this experiment. Last week he lost about $4. His portfolio stands at $10039.29 for essentially no gain since we started this experiment 19 weeks ago.

The graphical representation for the most recent 12 weeks is below. You can click on the chart for a larger, easier to read view. You can also join our free ETF newsletter (if you haven't already), and I'll send you weekly updates about this experiment.