market timer

As a group, such market timers have a poor record.

Over long periods, however, it is less clear that market timers have much to offer.

But they also point to a second reason: the speed of the market timers' turn from stocks.

Market timers attempt to avoid these difficulties in a number of ways.

What one should do is very simple: Do not be a market timer.

The market timers then predict that the trend will, more likely than not, continue in the future.

But executives at the smaller fund companies say they are providing a service to market timers.

And when taxes are taken into account, it's even more difficult for market timers to come out ahead because of capital gains.

Market timers play similar games with, among other things, mutual funds that have a lot of international stocks.

But the policy was ignored, said regulators, and some market timers were allowed to continue trading.

These organizations have found that purported market timers in many cases do no better than chance, or even worse.

"The problem with successful market timers is that you find they are different people in every market cycle."

Market timers can have a big impact on high-yield bond funds.

The Wall Street insider may be more of a market timer."

We happen to be better market timers than we are stock pickers.

As market timers, overseas investors have a very poor record in the American stock market.

Dell's record as a market timer is poor.

That means market timers should look for more justification than a quick end to the war before turning bullish.

Many market timers, in particular, have paid close attention to the overall ratio of insider sales to purchases.

"Any value investor is a market timer," she declares.

Some market timers think it does, provided they focus on its recent trend rather than its actual level.

Foreigners have not, it must be said, distinguished themselves as market timers in the United States.

Mr. Lynch is a researcher, not a market timer or an economist.

A major stumbling block for many market timers is the phenomenon of curve fitting.

They haven't found that being market timers is a terrifically rewarding activity.