Put a Stop to Market Timing

We all know someone (maybe ourselves) who just can't seem to get timing right.

Some common examples: Showing up late after forgetting to adjust the clock for Daylight Saving Time; planning a neighborhood party on the same day as the local school's big game; botching an elaborate meal by needing two things in the oven at the same time and at different temperatures, and making bad decisions when acting on hunches about investment opportunities. The result in all cases can be a disastrous comedy of errors due to poor timing -- but it's no joke when money is lost because of it.

Investors who want to avoid laughing all the way to the poorhouse should consider what makes comedy work. A select few people are born with a gift to tell jokes and leave the audience rolling on the floor. Similarly, a select few investors (or the ones privy to illegal inside information) seem to have the gift of consistently sensing major market or stock moves.

When Not to Say When

Smart investors realize that it's time, not timing, that will leave them with smiles on their faces. Given enough time, most quality stocks will eventually register market prices that correlate to their increases in value. Buying such stocks is a far better strategy than making the following types of time-hunch mistakes:

If you're that person who's timing is always wrong, take heed to these tips and you could be the one left smiling while others can only wonder what you know that they don't.

Market Timing Newsletters: Do They Work?

Whether market timing actually works has been the subject of hundreds of papers, studies, and articles - with no clear consensus. But what about market-timing newsletters?

One widely cited study looked at whether investing based on recommendations from 170 such newsletters outperformed the market. Those recommendations were made over an extended period of time.

The results: More than 80% of the newsletters made recommendations that would have underperformed the market. But you might have guessed that. Otherwise, why would the publishers bother wasting time writing the newsletters when they could be working full time on making a fortune using their techniques in the market?

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