Sentences with phrase «at market bottoms»

Almost by definition, more investors were negative at the market bottom than at any other time.

Because they do not have to keep cash for redemptions, they can stay fully invested at market bottoms.

This is an attractive earnings yield relative to the last 25 years, but not as attractive as levels reached at the market bottoms of 1974 and 1982.

Funny, but we never hear that argument at market bottoms.

While the names of the best foreign funds may change, the importance of patience and the ability to sell shares near market tops, not at market bottoms, does not change.

You will earn less than if you invest a lump sum at a market bottom.

«I can say, «You need to be buying when people are crying and selling when people are yelling,» but there's plenty of history to show that retail investors sell at the market bottom and buy at the top,» he says.

If you are like many investors, you were probably most fearful at the market bottoms around August 25, 2015, and February 11, 2016.

If you are like many investors, you were probably most fearful at the market bottoms around August 25, 2015, and February 11, 2016.

For example, you may consider borrowing to invest if you are in the top income tax bracket and expect to stay there for a number of years, you have 10 or more years until retirement, and you have the kind of temperament to sit through the inevitable market setbacks without losing confidence at a market bottom and selling out to repay your loan.

By selling asset classes at a market bottom or wagering too heavily in an obscure area of the market, investors can absolutely cause themselves permanent losses.

It could even work to your advantage, as the stocks you scoop up at at a market bottom can earn the highest long - term return.

That's important because you don't want to go into a market meltdown with too much in stocks and end up bailing on equities at the market bottom — or have less than you should in stocks after a crash and miss out on the gains when stocks rebound.

This dissonance in risk perception in theory and in practice is what leads to investors reducing risk at market bottoms and increasing risk at market tops.

They are then terrified after losing lots of their money and then shun great investments at cheap prices at market bottoms.

This is an obvious conclusion, buying almost anything at a market bottom had positive returns.»

@Eric — if you happened to purchase an ETF at a market bottom (like in 2009), you may not have had any opportunities for tax loss selling.

Others include taxes; brokerage commissions; mutual fund MERs; getting caught up in stock - market fads; buying speculative stocks that collapse; buying financial - industry creations that are virtually certain to produce meager profits if not losses for the bulk of participants; loading up on risky investments at market peaks; selling out in despair at market bottoms; and every other market error you've ever thought or heard of.

Their starting investments were all at a market bottom and there was no where to go but up.

What is financing like at market bottoms?

One might think to use the current market (let's use the S&P 500 Index as a stand - in) P / E ratio compared to the average market P / E over say the last 100 years, but Graham warns us off this measure quickly noting that P / Es are often highest at market bottoms as earnings disappear rapidly in economic downturns.

And investors — who cashed out in droves at the market bottom a few years ago — are still yanking their money out of the market today.

History shows fund shareholders tend to be heavy buyers near market peaks and heavy redeemers at market bottoms.

He proves that these «experts» always buy at market peaks, and sell at market bottoms; the exact opposite of the good ol' dogma «buy low, sell high.»

You have the kind of temperament to sit through the inevitable market setbacks without losing confidence at a market bottom and selling out to repay your loan;

In fact, Etrade liquidated its index funds in March 2009 (at a market bottom) without telling it clients.

These indicators show that the «crowd» can be reliably wrong at important market junctures as people fall prey to the collective emotions of fear (at market bottoms) and greed (at market tops).

An old Wall Street saying has it that they don't «ring a bell» at market bottoms.

At the market bottom nine years ago, for example, with valuations dirt cheap and sentiment overwhelmingly negative, I set aside The Oxford Club's traditional market - neutral approach and suggested that we were looking at one of the great buying opportunities of our lifetime.