You could buy and hold until a stock went to zero, for example. Edit: Whoever is downvoting obviously has never seen this happen. There was just an article abo

You could buy and hold until a stock went to zero, for example. Edit: Whoever is downvoting obviously has never seen this happen. There was just an article about it on HN the other day, describing how Dragon lost it all when the company they sold to plummeted to zero stock value.