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If you invest in the stock market, you might be pretty frustrated by the huge swings you’ve been experiencing on a daily basis.
That’s especially true if you’re trying to amass
One of those alternatives is timing your investments.
Let’s break this down before we talk about how effective it is.
First, it’s a process. And it’s a process you can document.
That means you don’t buy or sell based on your feelings or a hot tip you get from Uncle Joe. Oh, of course you can do that, but if you do, it’s not market timing. It’s
You can have a process that guides not only when to buy but what to buy as well.
It might be certain stocks, mutual funds or
Each market timing strategy has its own investments.
As I said towards the start of the post, ‘
You don’t buy and sell based on what you ate for breakfast or heard on the radio that day.
If you have a system, it must rely on what is actually going on in the market in terms of price, volume and a variety of other indicators.
Unfortunately, there is no answer.
In fact, when someone says, “market timing doesn’t work,” it’s like saying “cars get into accidents”. Yes, cars do get into accidents. But not all cars get in accidents. And not all cars get into bad accidents. And even if your car gets into an accident, does that mean it’s too dangerous to drive one?
Market timing can work.
But it doesn’t work perfectly. It certainly doesn’t guarantee success in any particular time period. And a large component of success is a function of what system you use and what kind of investor you are.
Often, investors investigate market timing strategies that work, implement one, and find it doesn’t work for them.
Why?
Because the investor themselves fail to apply the system consistently.
This explains
A good market timing strategy will work when executed over many, many years. It won’t work day after day, month after month, year after year. In fact, some of the best market timing strategies have long stretches of underperformance.
That just goes with the territory.
So, to answer the question, does market timing work, you have to be very clear how you define “work.”
In my opinion, an investment strategy works if it helps you achieve your long-term goals with less risk and cost over the long-term.
Let me share an example with you.
Let’s say one particular market timing strategy yielded the same long-term results as buy and hold. The only difference was that in any particular year, when the market was very bad, the market timing strategy cut out a great deal of those losses. And in any particular good year, this same market timing strategy did OK but not as well as the buy and hold strategy.
Would you say the market timing strategy failed?
I wouldn’t.
If the investor was someone who wanted to grow her money but not take on too much risk, this strategy did fantastically well over the long run. Of course, it’s no guarantee of future results, but if you can invest and shield yourself from the emotional upheaval of horrifying losses, that’s a pretty good thing.
Wouldn’t you agree?
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