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Buy Stop
A buy order not to be executed until the market price rises to the stop price. Once the security has broken through that price, the order is then treated as a market order.
Buy-and-hold approach
An investment strategy in which stocks are bought and then held for a long period, regardless of the market's fluctuations. The buy-and-hold approach to investing in stocks and mutual funds rests upon the assumption that in the very long term stock prices will go up.