Timing the Stock Market Again? Forget It

The financial media has a nasty habit it will never lose. Providing comments on timing the securities markets. It cannot stop this habit for a good reason. Securities-timing articles fill space. In blogs, books, periodic publications, over the air, and on the internet.

Yet, independent research constantly shows that market timing never works consistently. Mutual fund management companies know that in-and-out investors never do as well as their buy-and-hold long-term statistics show.

Remember: Reading a financial article telling how a rally trend in one security class may be finished, and it may be time to get into another type, should be a danger signal, not a buy opportunity.