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Should I try to time the market?
Forget it.
Certainly the most natural urge you can have in today’s bear market is to bail out of money-losing assets and put all you’ve got left safely in the bank, where it can’t keep losing. But the fact is that market rebounds tend to occur quickly and unpredictably. If you guess wrong and hold all your savings in cash when stocks ricochet off their low point, you’ll have locked in the loss to this point and captured none of the rebound. It’s tired advice and hard to stomach in these volatile times. But the best way to go is to select a mixture of stocks, bonds, and cash, and stick with it over time.
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Was Everything You Thought You Knew About Investing Wrong?
Stocks outperform long term. Asset allocation minimizes risk. Turns out the old investing bible needs an update.
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Great Minds on a Grim Market
Even market high priests have been humbled by the massacre of the Dow. For wisdom that goes beyond the same old advice, listen to these four.
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Why Buy-and-Hold Investing Beats Market Timing
It’s hard to time the market from year to year or day to day. If your portfolio is causing you to lose sleep at night, try offsetting market fluctuations with dividend-paying companies.
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The Dow Is Not a Crystal Ball
Nobody knows whether the market has reached bottom. Rather than making emotional investing decisions, try to build a portfolio that meets your individual needs and stick with it.
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An All-Cash Portfolio Carries Its Own Risks
Stuffing your retirement savings under a mattress (or in an FDIC-insured money fund) will hurt you in the long run, because it’s difficult to time when to get back into the market.
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Did 401(k) Investors Try to Time the Market in 2008?
Individual investors pulled out of stocks and stock funds in a major way in 2008, locking in losses. That could keep them from achieving long-term goals, unless they rebalance their portfolios.
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Is Now the Right Time to Get Back Into The Stock Market?
This is a common question I get. Often it comes in the form of a sophisticated question like "is this the right stock market re-entry point? My answer is a definite "NO!" by Allan Roth
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Financial Media Seized by Schizophrenia in Uncertain Times
In times like these when it's unclear what to make of the economic recovery, the media turns into a raving schizoid with its financial coverage. As a news consumer, don't get too worried -- or relieved -- about the back-and-forth mix of ominous and elated headlines you're seeing....
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How to Invest in the ‘New Normal’
Some advisers say you’ll need to be more nimble with your investments; critics just call that market timing. Here’s what we do know about the post-Lehman market. To Bill Gross and Mohamed El-Erian, co-chief investment officer and CEO (respectively) of Pacific Investment Management Co.,...
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Was This Bear Market Really So Different?
While the recent downturn was one of the worst on record, the recovery looks a lot like previous bounce-backs. And that means many of the old investing lessons still apply. But is it really different this time? From a big-picture perspective, the stock market to this...
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Is the $8,000 First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit Enough to Save the Housing Market?
June's new construction and existing home sales numbers are out, and I think they're a mixed bag: New home sales increased 11 percent in June over May, according to the U.S. Commerce Dept. That's the highest amount in 9 years, and welcome bit of news for market-beaten developers. The...
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S&P 500 Tops 1,000 Again - Time to Sell!
Why you shouldn't be feeling good about the stock market, even though I do! by Allan Roth
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I Will Not Time the Market. I Will Not Time the Market
When people in the advice business make the point that timing the market is a loser’s game, they often trot their favorite hypothetical. You've not doubt encountered it in the "Investing is Easy" brochures that your company gave you when you enrolled in your 401(k). (That is, if you even...
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Harry Markowitz: Getting Ready for Recovery
Harry Markowitz, the father of modern portfolio theory, still thinks you can't time the market (though he admits to trying a bit himself recently). His best advice: stay invested and diversified. "You have to be in the market and prepared when the recovery begins," he explains... That’s not...
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Half-Time Economic Update: Are You Smoking Green Shoots?
With half the year behind us and summer vacations beckoning, it's time to stop, take a breath and assess where we are in the economy and the markets. I would sum it up like this: less bad doesn't equal good, but it's better than total melt-down. After a dismal first quarter, there has been...
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Less Than 10 Years from Retirement?
Torn between the need to rebuild your savings — before it’s too late — and fear of another bear market? Relax. Here’s your plan. Build Your Firewall Having five years of living expenses in liquid assets means you can be totally zen-like about plummeting stock...
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