Think You Can Time the Market?

Here's what the data shows about the promise and peril of darting around.
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Watch the market get highly volatile. Then watch some investors, as they always do, start talking about market timing.

The Wall Street Journal quoted a Davos attendee last week as saying that “the trade now is to hold as much cash as possible.” In other words, dump everything and move to cash.