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Yes, Virginia You Can Time The Market

TedTed
in Fund Discussions
FYI: (Click On Article Title At Top Of Google
It's the investing equivalent of "don't run with scissors": Nearly all advisers agree that trying to time stocks is futile. Naturally, people do it anyway.
Research firm Dalbar earlier this year published 30 years of data on what typical mutual-fund investors earned and the results weren't pretty: An annualized return of 3.69% in stock funds and 0.7% in bond funds. Yet someone fully invested in the S&P 500 over that period would have earned eight times as much as a typical equity-fund investor. Results for bonds were similar.
Regards,
Ted
https://www.google.com/#q=yes,+you+can+time+wsj

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  • STB65
    Yes, Virginia, I believe, and have lightened up (but less than 30%) and put little new money into stocks.
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