Question 2: Does patience pay?
Answer:
If you buy and hold Marathon Oil stock, the expectation is over time the near term fluctuations will cancel out, and the long-term positive trend will favor you – at least if the company is otherwise strong.
Overall, according to data and Trefis’ machine learning engine’s calculations, patience absolutely pays for most stocks!
For MRO stock, the returns over the next N days after a -5% change over the last five trading days is detailed in the table below, along with the returns for the S&P500:
You can try the engine to see what this table looks like for Marathon Oil after a larger loss over the last week, month, or quarter.