Market Timing's Steep Odds

I always discuss the foolishness of attempting to time buying and selling securities. Occasionally, investors can luck out in such efforts. But this success can only be accidental; most timers never get out at the highs they claim, nor back into the market in time.

They get media play, but check independent research and you find the market timers are generally not the success they purport to be. ( See the Earl J. Weinreb NewsHole® comments.)