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Market Timing

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• Real Rally or Bear Market Trap?

  Have we seen the bottom? Is the market turning around? MoneyWatch.com editorial director Eric Schurenberg poses these tricky questions to editor at large Jill Schlesinger.

  Videos | Apr 2, 2009

• So Now You Want to Jump Back Into Stocks?

  The fear that kept you from putting money into stocks all these months is starting to give way to the fear of being left behind. Time to get a little perspective, isn't it?After 17 months of a grindingly awful bear market, the worst since the Great Depression, a few glimmers of economic hope...

  Articles | Apr 4, 2009

• Eugene Fama: Why You Can't Time the Market

  For decades, the notion that markets are efficient has been a broadly held belief. So how could so many markets crash simultaneously? Eugene Fama, the father of the efficient market theory, answers the skeptics. His bottom line: If markets are efficiently priced, why did they crash?...

  Articles | Mar 9, 2009

• Jeremy Grantham: Why to Buy Stocks Now

  Legendary investor Jeremy Grantham predicted the recent market crash in early 2006. Although he says there may still be another severe downswing, he sees great upside potential: "If you can stick it out for a while, this may be the buying opportunity of a lifetime"... Over the past three decades,...

  Articles | Mar 9, 2009

• Investing Lessons from the ’70s Crash

  Is the rebound for real, or is it a bear trap? Have we been fundamentally wrong about stocks as investments? For answers, we asked pros who have been through it all before. How Things Were Different Not that events will unfold in precisely the same way as...

  Articles | Apr 21, 2009

• Where 'Stocks for the Long Run' Went Wrong

  The notion that stocks always trump other investments in the long run has run headlong into reality. Thanks to the recent market massacre, over the 20 years that ended February 2009, Treasury bonds significantly outperformed the S&P 500. How to readjust... In 1994 Jeremy Siegel wrote the...

  Articles | Mar 19, 2009

• The Advice Remains the Same: Adventures in Market Timing

  Yes, the temptation to time the market -- say, by bolting while stocks slump -- can be overwhelming. Resist it, because odds are good you'll miss the rebound as well. by Larry Swedroe

  Blog posts | Apr 10, 2009