market timing: is it possible?

Answer 1

Is it possible in which market? If it is the forex market, it is very difficult. The best way to approach this market is by hedging.
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Answer 2

I laugh when people say it's not possible. The people who say it's not possible are the ignorant and the isolated. Mutual fund managers are included in the ignorant category, because every mutual fund prohibits them from market timing (in practice, it's impossible to time the market if you're trying to invest hundreds of millions of dollars). Ask any trader or speculator, however, and they'll tell you yes, it is possible, and in fact, market timing is critical.

The simplest form of market timing is knowing whether the stock market is going up or down. That one is easy enough a child could tell you. The basic rule is, only hold stocks when the market is going up. Do not hold stocks when the market is going down. There are always relatively clear signs that the stock market is going up or down - the riskiest times are, of course, when the market is switching from up to down, or down to up - and the signs are not always perfect (nothing is).

Just because market timing is not perfect, does that mean we shouldn't even try it?

I suggest the book How to Make Money in Stocks. It explains the simplest (but most effective) way to tell when a stock market is bull (up) or bear (down).

However, if you're not willing to spend a little time learning how to time the market, and monitor the market at least once a week, then you should accept the conventional wisdom that it's impossible to time the market, buy and hold (even though the stock market crashed 80% during the bursting of the Internet bubble, wiping many buy and hold investors out - and stocks took 20 years to recover from the stock market crash just before the Great Depression), and keep your ignorant views to yourself.

Many professional traders want the general investing public to believe you can't time the markets, so that when it comes time to sell their stocks as the market turns down, they can sell it all to the ignorant long-term buy and hold investors, count their profits, and take long vacations until the market turns back up.

One exception, though: if you are a strict value investor with discipline and patience, then you can completely ignore market timing, as strict value investing will "automatically" time the markets for you (e.g. Warren Buffett during the Internet bubble).

Answer 3

Very very unlikely. Check out the following book: The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You'll Ever Need by Larry E. Swedroe.

Answer 4

Better to move from sector to sector. Market timinng s a broad concept. Day trading, buy high, sell low. question is too vague.

Answer 5

very easy

fix ur time frame short long

& check buy sell signal accordingly on chart free

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Answer 6

No but u can invest in such a way, by using technical analysis, that u do not get heavy losses.