Blue Diamond Ventures Inc (BLDV)

[thomm]

found interesting; You've probably heard it before, and you'll likely hear it again: You can't time the market.

Sure, maybe you'll get it right once in a blue moon. You might buy and sell your stocks at exactly the right time.

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while.

But you probably won't do it more than once - and if you make market timing your primary investment strategy, your returns will suffer.

Question of the Week
How old were you when you opened your first retirement account or started contributing to a company pension or 401(k)?

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Market timing is the practice of trying to beat the returns of the stock market by predicting its movements. Some market timers use technical indicators to make their predictions, and others use economic data like unemployment or inflation rates.

While economic data and technical indicators are important to consider, they don't tell the entire story. Many market timers ignore company fundamentals, including revenue growth rates and free cash flow generation. That's why they tend to underperform those who remain invested through the market's ups and downs. ;mo,