By Alexander Green In previous columns, I’ve discussed why market timing – the attempt to be in the market for the rallies and out for the corrections – is a deeply flawed investment approach.
(The rare exceptions – every decade or so – are market extremes, when sky-high valuations are accompanied by unbridled optimism about the future or when rock-bottom valuations coexist with abject pessimism.)
Around 95% of the time, the market itself is neither an urgent sell nor a table-pounding buy. (Although the same cannot be said for individual securities.)
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