The perfect market timing strategy is a chimera. Nobody can pick the peaks or troughs perfectly. Being on the wrong side of a peak or trough by a few percent is "good enough" for dramatically improved ...

Market timing, when properly understood as trading based on conditional expectations rather than forecasting, can be an effective strategy for generating superior risk-adjusted returns. We look at a ...

Can investors realistically time the market to maximize returns, especially over the long term? According to a recent study from Charles Schwab, perfect market timing is practically impossible. The ...

Hello, Reader. “The only problem with market timing is getting the timing right,” the legendary investor Peter Lynch once remarked. A perpetual but tricky factor, timing is the key to any successful ...

The mainstream media often discusses the stock market with a short-term mindset. Even worse, pundits often promote market-timing strategies. They draw arbitrary lines on charts to explain when it's ...

The stock selloff is pushing some investors to the exits. But the summer of 2024 was great for the market. The "sell in May and go away" seasonal stock-market timing strategy may come early this year.

One of the longest-running debates in the stock market is whether “timing the market” or “time in the market” will make you richer. While the “timing the market” crowd is perhaps flashier and more ...

But in 2017, market timing is the best way to make fast profits in the markets, outside of your long-term investments. Plus, market timing is particularly lucrative when the markets are volatile, ...

The S&P 500 has advanced 18% year to date due to enthusiasm about artificial intelligence and a surprisingly resilient economy. September has historically been the worst month for the S&P 500, with ...

Investors who avoided the stock market due to valuation concerns in 2024 likely paid a high price for sitting on the sidelines. The S&P 500 trades at 22.2 times forward earnings, an expensive ...