Timing When to Buy and Sell Stocks

                     

The financial media has a habit of commenting on timing the securities markets. It cannot stop for a good reason.

                                                   

Securities-timing articles fill space in blogs  and publications, over the air, and 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.

                       

Reading also that 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. (See the Earl J. Weinreb NewsHole® comments and @BusinessNewshole at Twitter.)