More importantly, if we constrain long - term timing to one critical decision (when to buy stocks with cash reserves), we can avoid most of the mathematical obstacles inherent to more
general forms of market timing.
So in 1981 our Buy - and - Hold friends were put in the terrible position of either coming clean and acknowledging that they had made a pretty darn basic mistake (they had concluded that
no form of market timing works or is required after only checking one of the two forms of market timing!)
Studying market reports and economic forecasts to know when to be in stocks or out is just
another form of market timing.
It introduces
a form of market timing.]
Again, if you look at the evidence, this is
another form of market timing.
A value investor's
form of market timing is valuation timing.
Acting on this type of generalization is
a form of market timing.
This is my concern about making tactical moves based on valuation, which is really just
a form of market timing.
Ioulia Tretiakova, vice-president and director of Quantitative Strategies at PUR Investing Inc. (which manages constant - risk models for Horizons ETFs), says going «net short» has negative expected returns and is
a form of market timing.
That is
a form of market timing I call valuation analysis timing.
The odds are less than 25 % that you end up winning by picking your own mutual funds, or using
any form of market timing.
We talked a little about Market Timing yesterday — and the idea that a card offer will only be around right now is
a form of Market Timing.