Think You Can Time the Market? Ha!

Think You Can Time the Market? Ha!

This column will be short, sweet (I hope) and get right to the point: Never, ever think you can time the market. No one can. Some may get luckier than others, but don't confuse luck with skill. If the sample is large enough, there will be a coin …

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Bull Markets In Stocks Aren't Without Their Bumps In The Road

Long-term bull/bear market cycles (secular trends) matter. Skewing portfolio exposure to equity markets (slightly higher or lower) due to recognition of “secular” trends can be rewarding and shouldn't be thrown into the same construct as “market timing”.

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Market Timing Among Costliest Participant Mistakes

Effectively timing equity markets is extremely difficult to do, and over the long term, emotional decisionmaking during market lows can rob huge portions of potential returns. During a recent research briefing with J.P. Morgan Asset Management, some of …

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TYSON: The importance of saving versus market timing

In reality and in my long-term observations, very few market timers can beat the market average returns and the vast majority many actually under perform a buy-and-hold approach. The reason for the under performance is quite simple. The stock market …

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Market Timing a Loser's Game

Many of us are trained to look for tops and bottoms and game the markets accordingly. For the most part, that is the way our brains work That is the wrong approach, however. Tops and bottoms is generally a loser's game, but following through after …

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