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Getting In and Getting Out—The Issue with Market Timing

Over a 40 year period, $1,000 became $86,000. If you missed 1% of the days, you ended up with $4,400.
A University of Michigan study covering 30 years showed that if you missed 1.2% of the days, you missed 95% of the profits.
From December 1991 to December 2001, the S&P 500 went up 12.94%, but if [...]

By Carl on 06.24.09 > Link

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When Things Clear Up

With the S&P 500 up over 25% from the recent lows in March, I am starting to hear people say things like:
“I am thinking about getting back in now that things have cleared up.”
In fact, earlier this week I heard an interview on NPR with a recently retired couple that sold in March because they [...]

By Carl on 04.22.09 > Link

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Behavior Gap Round Up, 4.3.2009

Financial McCarthyism
I was talking to my friend Michael today and he used a term to describe our mutual fear of a populist revolt against wall street and the financial sector: Financial McCarthyism
It got me thinking about the wisdom (or actually the lack of wisdom) in making wall street and the investors and executives that inhabit [...]

By Carl on 04.03.09 > Link

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Market Timing

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By Carl on 03.10.09 > Link

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