“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 trading strategy ...

Market timing is difficult and not the type of behavior we would encourage for most advisors and investors. A historical perspective on how frequently portfolios have lost money may help investors ...

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 ...

Ivanna Hampton: Here’s what’s ahead on this week’s Investing Insights. A head-to-head matchup tests whether market-timing works, what Morningstar research shows, and the takeaway for investors. The ...

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 ...

The world of investment is a complex labyrinth filled with myriad opportunities and pitfalls. One of the most common misconceptions is the belief in the ability to time the market perfectly. However, ...

â Timing the marketâ is a term often met with skepticism. After all, who can predict where prices will go next? Yet, veteran ...

The S&P 500 has returned an annual average of 9%, but short-term periods can be much more volatile. Warren Buffett has called timing the market a waste of time. Timing the market consistently is ...

Back in the day, there were two immediate reasons not to time the stock market by exiting when prospects seemed dim and reentering after they brightened. The causes were costs and taxes. Stock trades ...