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1). Market Timing – A Danger to Your Financial Success
Market timing are the two most dangerous words in investing - especially when practiced by novice traders.
Market timing is the strategy of attempting to predict future price movements through use of various fundamental and technical analysis tools - and when used to predict trending moves, ends in disaster, and losses.
Many investors feel that market timing is the same as trend following and the two go hand in hand, they don’t.
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2). Active Stock Market Timing
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Much has been written about the virtues and dangers of active stock market trading, or “market timing.”
Most of the pundits and so called "experts" will tell you that stock market timing doesn't work, that it's dangerous, and that "buy and hold" is the best and only way to invest.
But this conventional wisdom is patently untrue.
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3). How To Evaluate a Good Stock Market Timing System
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No matter what investment discipline you use, there are three important variables for measuring your success - peak-to-valley drawdown, beta, reward/risk ratio. The first and most important factor is your measure of risk. Performance volatility is a measure of the variability of an investment's rate of return.
Specifically, it is the standard deviation of the sample set of monthly returns that have been observed for the investment over the interval being considered.
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4). Critical Information You Need to Protect Your Retirement
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America is heading for a train wreck.
Everyone knows it's coming, but no one is doing anything about it. As an individual, you can wait and hope the inevitable doesn't happen, or you can prepare yourself and your finances now so you and your family can avoid and even profit from the disaster that's rapidly approaching.
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5). Why Buying And Holding Is Dangerous To Your Retirement
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When someone tells you that the dam is breaking, do you just stand there and get washed away by the floodwaters? Why does the professional management industry give you that advice for managing your retirement? Why did trillions of dollars get lost in the millennium bear market due to the bad advice of passive money management?
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6). Big Lie #1: Buy and Hold
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So much of what you hear in the financial press these days is so wrong, that one must consider most financial television and print to be strictly for entertainment purposes only. In this article, we’re going to examine one of the big lies constantly being pedaled, the myth of Buy and Hold.
“Buy a stock or mutual fund and hold it through thick and thin for 30 years and you will make money,” they say.
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7). Beating the S&P 500 with Stock Market Timing
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Approximately 75% of fund managers do not beat the S&P 500 year in and year out. How can a basket of 500 hundred stocks beat the majority of actively managed mutual funds? The people who manage these funds are, for the most part, brilliant people. They are highly educated and have access to the most advanced information and decision support systems in the world.
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8). The Case for Value Stock Investing... What If?
Wall Street Institutions pay billions of dollars annually to convince the investing public that their Economists, Investment Managers, and Analysts can predict future price movements in specific company shares and trends in the overall Stock Market. Such predictions (often presented as “Wethinkisms” or Model Asset Allocation adjustments) make self-deprecating investors everywhere scurry about transacting with each new revelation.
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9). Why Stock Market Timing
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It’s important that you understand the impact that a bear market has on your capital. The give and take of your investment capital is not equal. If you placed $100 into an investment and it declined 50% to $50, what is the rate of return you would need to earn back your original investment of $100?
Once you lose money, it takes a much greater return on the funds you have left to recapture your original investment.
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