Week 30 Day 1: Market Timing: The Impossible Dream

Market timing -- selling before drops and buying before rallies -- is intuitively appealing and practically impossible. No one has ever proven the ability to consistently time the market over decades....

Market timing -- selling before drops and buying before rallies -- is intuitively appealing and practically impossible. No one has ever proven the ability to consistently time the market over decades. Not fund managers, not algorithms, not Nobel laureates.