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Regardless of the outcome this year, history teaches us the time in the market is much more important than timing the market.

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A little-known market timing indicator with a spot-on track record has just flashed a “dead cold sell” signal. The indicator appears in the Value Line Investment Survey, published weekly by ...

Market timing for fun and profit! Now that sounds good, right? Who wouldn’t want to have fun while making a profit? In the investment world, that’s the siren song of the market timer.

According to a recent study from Charles Schwab, perfect market timing is practically impossible. The firm’s research showed that most investors are better off investing as soon as possible ...

Whether it’s telling a joke, asking your boss for a raise or cooking the perfect meal, timing is everything. This is partly true for investing: Starting early and staying invested gives your money ...

Even worse, pundits often promote market-timing strategies. They draw arbitrary lines on charts to explain when it's time to buy or sell, and it often sounds very sophisticated. But the data is ...

not market timing. This is true even if you’re in your 40s or 50s right now and feel like you need to start carefully minding your investments for retirement. Keep in mind that if you’re 40 ...

The U.S. stock market’s decline this week most likely does not signify the start of a major bear market. This optimism is based on a contrarian analysis of stock-market-timer sentiment.

I aim to prudently speculate in undervalued, dividend-paying stocks. Warren Buffett famously once said, "The stock market is a mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient." ...