While some investors might get lucky in their attempts to time the market, those successes usually lead to “delusional over-confidence,” writes columnist Barry Ritholtz in a recent Bloomberg article. “As…
Tag: Market Timing
World’s Worst Market Timer: A Story and A Lesson
By Justin Carbonneau Imagine this: 80 years ago, you won a prize that promised 13 payments of $10,000 to be paid out over time. You think you’ve finally got lucky,…
Morningstar: You Can’t Time the Market
Morningstar’s director of investment research, Ian Tam, discusses the importance of staying invested during “critical months” in a recent video. Tam explains the “critical month” concept as the notion that…
Morningstar: Minding the Gap in 2019
A recent article in Morningstar reports the findings of the firm’s annual Mind the Gap study in which it evaluates the cost to investors associated with the timing of investments.…
Ken Fisher Says Time, Not Timing, is Key to Investment Success
In a recent article for USA Today, investment guru Ken Fisher warns that it’s impossible to miss market downturns and that “even the greatest investors are wrong maybe a third…
Beware of Binary Market Indicators
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — Whenever the market declines, the news is filled with information that can lead investors to panic. That is no surprise since doom and gloom sells. Even…
Mark Hulbert Offers Stock Trading Secret
In a recent article for MarketWatch, financial analyst and journalist Mark Hulbert describes what he calls the “market-timing industry’s dirty little secret: bear markets and increased volatility are good for…
Investors Spooked by the Market Tumble Should "Buy and Hold"
Highlighting the fact that future stock market movements are “unknowable” and that trying to predict them can be “dangerous,” a recent Wall Street Journal article quotes the legendary investor Peter…
You Can’t Time The Market – But Many People Should
By Jack Forehand, CFA (@practicalquant) — There are few topics that are more controversial in the stock market than market timing. Most long-term investors will tell you that market timing…
Questions to Answer Before Dashing into Cash
Keeping some cash on hand might be a good idea if you’re going to need it soon, say many financial experts, but it could be a bad strategy for long-term…